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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWIRED: This is a pretty amazing CORRECTION on this Donald Trump story
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WIRED: This is a pretty amazing CORRECTION on this Donald Trump story (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2016
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NV Whino
(20,886 posts)1. That's hilarious!
Coming from Wired, it's doubly hilarious.
!!!
peace NV Whino,
kp
muriel_volestrangler
(101,399 posts)3. "So, About That ‘Tiny Hands’ Trump Chrome Extension…"
YESTERDAY, I INSTALLED the Drumpfinator. This is the famous Chrome extension, launched by John Olivers Last Week Tonight, that replaces the word Trump with Drumpfhis ancestral nameeverywhere it appears in your browser. I wanted to understand the appeal of these extensions, and why they have emerged as a cultural force over the course of the last few weeks. You can install extensions that replace Trumps name with your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, or that add actual Trump quotes every time his name appears, or that remove any mention of him whatsoever.
This goes beyond Trump: such target text-swap extensions first started about five years ago as a means of scrubbing away celebrities names from your news feed. By now, you can also change millennials to snake people, or scrub any reference to Hillary Clinton or Kim Kardashian, or substitute a list of words, suggested by xkcds Randall Munroe, to better reflect the true nature of the news. (Witnesses becomes these dudes I know; allegedly transmogrifies into kinda probably.) You can also install an extension that lets you replace whatever words you like. (Swap Jason Tanz with the worlds greatest living writer, just for instance.)
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This train of thought was interrupted this morning, when a member of our art team worked on a story of mine while an anti-Trump extension was installed on their browser. The result, unbeknownst to us, was that every instance of Trumps name got replaced with the sobriquet someone with tiny hands, a reference to the candidates famed defensiveness about his finger-length. Our production team thought the phrase was a meta-gag, and let it through. The storyor, to be fair, the correction we ran on itdelighted the Internet. Someones personal joke had just become very public.
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/political-chrome-extensions-donald-trump/
This goes beyond Trump: such target text-swap extensions first started about five years ago as a means of scrubbing away celebrities names from your news feed. By now, you can also change millennials to snake people, or scrub any reference to Hillary Clinton or Kim Kardashian, or substitute a list of words, suggested by xkcds Randall Munroe, to better reflect the true nature of the news. (Witnesses becomes these dudes I know; allegedly transmogrifies into kinda probably.) You can also install an extension that lets you replace whatever words you like. (Swap Jason Tanz with the worlds greatest living writer, just for instance.)
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This train of thought was interrupted this morning, when a member of our art team worked on a story of mine while an anti-Trump extension was installed on their browser. The result, unbeknownst to us, was that every instance of Trumps name got replaced with the sobriquet someone with tiny hands, a reference to the candidates famed defensiveness about his finger-length. Our production team thought the phrase was a meta-gag, and let it through. The storyor, to be fair, the correction we ran on itdelighted the Internet. Someones personal joke had just become very public.
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/political-chrome-extensions-donald-trump/
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. An Xtian news service replaced 'gay' with 'homosexual'. Hilarity ensued.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)5. "Erroneously," huh? Personal statements must
be a great temptation when readying this stuff for dissemination....