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Hackathon? More like a Gackathon

By adamg on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 9:34am

The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon is the obverse of events where people get together to create cool new stuff, and it's coming up, on May 27:

A "hackathon" is a social event where people come together for a short period of time to make a project, like an app or hardware device. A "stupid shit hackathon" is an event where people come together to make projects that are terrible, useless, horrifying, and probably should have never been made.

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Comments

By jmeltzer on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 9:41am.

the GoH?

By xyz on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 12:17pm.

If nothing else, the spiritual father thereof.

By anon on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:17am.

"Inspirational" Project Categories:

Software as a Disservice (SaaD)
Buttcoin
Internet of Terrible Things
Anti-social Media
"Government 2.0"
Psychological projection mapping
Witch apps
Fin-dom technology
Machine learning and machine forgetting
Dogmented reality
Decentralized spider web apps
Covert dev ops
Fireside chat bots
Robots that definitely aren't evil

By Sammyo on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 11:04am.

So... Tuesday at the Media lab.

By Ari O on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 11:08am.

They'll invent cryptocurrencies?

By redheadedjen on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 4:18pm.

I am sharing this with my hacker husband, though he already probably knows about this.

By U-Hub-Fan on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 8:07pm.

...probably should have never been made" ?

Isn't that, like, every bit of technology nowadays?

By anon on Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:15pm.

Invite the manufacturers of the Orange Line trains and turn it into a summit.