antibiotic
resistant bacteria
sparks hospital fears

womens’ rights threatened
by fundamentalism
and far right: UN

solid gold toilet
to open to public at
new york’s guggenheim

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The headlines above are real headlines from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The author gathered them from Kaggle’s “A Million News Headlines” dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/therohk/million-headlines. The code used to filter out headlines fitting haiku syllable structure was written by the author and is publicly available here: https://www.kaggle.com/lazovich/headline-haiku-detection/. It uses the Python programming language along with open source packages syllables and cmudict for syllable counting. After narrowing down to 7,486 potential headlines from the dataset, the author hand-selected the ones that appear above, taking into account their relevance today and emotional impact when presented together. Technology can be a powerful tool for the creative process!