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Markov mashups of Erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers (twitter.com)
37 points by bcrypt 3063 days ago
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These are pretty good. Kudos to the Markov Curator (that should be a job title for someone somewhere).

For those not familiar with Erowid, there's this New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/the-trip-plann...

I didn't know about it before reading it. I since have made a donation. Not because I'm a user of psychoactives but because it represents for me what the web once was and what it should be.

The KJV / ICO Markov mashup linked in the bio is just as good

"Then he turned again unto the disciples, and said unto him, Get thee up to 300 users. Like our posts: 10 shares / like."

For some reason this really reminds me of parts of Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
this is just what today called for