Lorem Gibson
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·July 13, 2025allenu
jagged-chisel
> At the calculated moment, you start off from down the street driving toward the cable execrating to eighty-eight miles per hour.
Not sure if my execrations have enough umph to propel a stainless steel-clothed automobile to 88mph.
hungryhobbit
What a coincidence, I just saw Lorem Gibson referenced yesterday. OP did you just read https://mbh4h.substack.com/p/neuromancer-2025-review-william... ?
xhkkffbf
Yup. That's where I discovered it too. Greatness.
mNovak
Fun idea, but I was hoping it would actually form grammatically correct sentences. Also proper capitalization wouldn't be that hard to implement.
vunderba
Basically markov chains trained on Gibsons books. Programming something like that is starting to feel like the "hello world" of information theory.
Looks like somebody even made a cyberpunk style markov generator:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/6g4weu/i_made_a_...
f4c39012
Lorem Bel-airum - Lyrics of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air _but in Latin_
ilikecakeandpie
This here is a real stepping razor
paulryanrogers
I wonder what authors think of things like this.
tshaddox
Cute idea, although I might have gone with Henrik Ibsen.
dfxm12
Meta Gibson: Include words from works based on the work of William Gibson.
Hack the planet!
Lio
This is great. I will definitely be using this in my next product demo. Chapeau on the idea.
I just tried asking GPT to generate some Gibsonesque filler text, I'll same you the slop reading the slop but I think it did a pretty good job.
What surprised me is that I can kind of guess which novels various words and ideas came from.
atleastoptimal
BASE jump
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bitwize
Congratulations on hacking the Gibson.
I love the idea, but I wish the sentences were capitalized and the dashes were fixed. I think the spaces between dashed elements need to be removed. Right now, I see things like "cyber- neon" or "bomb- ware".
In a similar vein, there's DeLorean Ipsum, which I often use for fake text when mocking up UI: https://satoristudio.net/delorean-ipsum/