Political Campaign Mistakenly Targets JavaScript Runtime as a Voter
Description
A screenshot of a Twitter (now X) interaction. The top tweet is from the verified account of Donald J. Trump, directed at '@bunjavascript'. The message is a political solicitation: 'I'll send you IMPORTANT ELECTION UPDATES for North Carolina. Make sure you are ready to VOTE FOR DONALD J. TRUMP by November 5th. Reply #stop to opt-out.' Below this, the account for 'Bun', with its cute ghost-like avatar, has replied with a simple, lowercase sentence: 'i am a javascript runtime'. The humor originates from the absurd category error of a political campaign's automated outreach apparently mistaking a piece of software infrastructure - Bun, a modern JavaScript runtime - for a human voter. The deadpan, literal response from the Bun account perfectly highlights the failure of the targeting script or strategy, creating a moment of comedy that resonates with developers who understand the technical nature of the 'user' being addressed
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The campaign's voter targeting script threw an exception it couldn't catch. Bun's reply was the most polite 'TypeError: 'voter' is not a function' you'll ever see
Proof that even modern runtimes can’t escape legacy CRM systems - next up, Bun gets a robocall in ES6
When your JavaScript runtime achieves sentience just to clarify it's not a voter in North Carolina - though to be fair, Bun probably executes faster than most election systems and has better error handling than political campaign bots
When you're a blazingly fast JavaScript runtime built in Zig with native TypeScript support and sub-millisecond startup times, but someone mistakes you for a political spam bot - so you respond with the most technically accurate statement possible. Classic case of 'I'm not that kind of runtime' - Bun doesn't execute political campaigns, just your async/await code at speeds that make Node.js sweat
When your CRM’s entity resolution defaults to TRUE, you end up messaging a JavaScript runtime - the only thing Bun registers is microtasks on the event loop
Bun's opt-out: skips 'STOP', drops existential 'I am a JS runtime' - faster cold start than Node dodging spam
When your growth team’s CDP does fuzzy entity resolution on social handles, the GOTV cron ends up cold-calling a JavaScript runtime - proof that a bad JOIN scales faster than any A/B test
fuck I read ELECTION as electron Comment deleted
True developer moment Comment deleted
Yeah I also thought that at first Comment deleted
Same Comment deleted
Whenever someone mentioned to me "Library", I always think of the library in Programming first. Comment deleted
What about Halo CE: The Library Comment deleted
package, container and other stuff as well Comment deleted
Elon: twitter has too many bots. Also Elon: X will remind people to vote for trump. Also Also Elon: In my defense twitter doesn’t exist anymore so drop the case. Comment deleted
The couple of idiots :) Comment deleted
I am a passionate dev, so far attended various kinds of projects.so if you have some recommendations or looking for extra devs, I'd love to collaborate together. 🤝 Comment deleted