Janelle Shane
@janelleshane.com
I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Pinned
Janelle Shane
@janelleshane.com
· Dec 14
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
www.janelleshane.com
When I wrote a book on AI in 2019, it focused on AIs making sneaky shortcuts.
Aside from the vintage generative text (Pumpkin Trash Break ice cream, anyone?), the algorithmic shortcutting is still completely recognizable today.
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
Aside from the vintage generative text (Pumpkin Trash Break ice cream, anyone?), the algorithmic shortcutting is still completely recognizable today.
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
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Sorry I am still stuck on this infographic (unfographic)
If this was what it is like to be autistic in an allistic world I would also accept it. This is a pretty decent representation of auditory processing disorder. (Me in a meeting)
But again, not what they were going for.
If this was what it is like to be autistic in an allistic world I would also accept it. This is a pretty decent representation of auditory processing disorder. (Me in a meeting)
But again, not what they were going for.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Sorry I am still stuck on this infographic (unfographic)
If this was what it is like to be autistic in an allistic world I would also accept it. This is a pretty decent representation of auditory processing disorder. (Me in a meeting)
But again, not what they were going for.
If this was what it is like to be autistic in an allistic world I would also accept it. This is a pretty decent representation of auditory processing disorder. (Me in a meeting)
But again, not what they were going for.
Reposted by Janelle Shane
This book is so funny and readable. I used it as the main text in my AI literacy class, and even though it predates the LLM horror-madness, it provided all the foundation we needed to really dig in. Great deal!
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
www.janelleshane.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This book is so funny and readable. I used it as the main text in my AI literacy class, and even though it predates the LLM horror-madness, it provided all the foundation we needed to really dig in. Great deal!
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Also available for CAD$2.99 at Canadian sites like Kobo!
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
www.janelleshane.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Also available for CAD$2.99 at Canadian sites like Kobo!
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
Book: You Look Like A Thing — Janelle Shane
www.janelleshane.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
Happy World Linguistics Day from Boulder, Colorado!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Boulder, Colorado!
I approve of this
(cromberry yaas is a pie generated by a very tiny old-school neural network)
www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-make-...
(cromberry yaas is a pie generated by a very tiny old-school neural network)
www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-make-...
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I approve of this
(cromberry yaas is a pie generated by a very tiny old-school neural network)
www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-make-...
(cromberry yaas is a pie generated by a very tiny old-school neural network)
www.aiweirdness.com/how-to-make-...
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Also this reminds me that almost nothing will make me laugh as hard as @janelleshane.com 's (ethically sourced) recipes, but these things should stay in captivity, and not be released into the wild.
www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-a...
www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-a...
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Also this reminds me that almost nothing will make me laugh as hard as @janelleshane.com 's (ethically sourced) recipes, but these things should stay in captivity, and not be released into the wild.
www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-a...
www.aiweirdness.com/ai-recipes-a...
From the days of chocolate horseradish brownies and chocolate chicken chicken cake to now, there has never been a good time to try an AI generated recipe.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
From the days of chocolate horseradish brownies and chocolate chicken chicken cake to now, there has never been a good time to try an AI generated recipe.
Reposted by Janelle Shane
This shit is delightful
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This shit is delightful
A noteworthy addition to the Wikipedia page on black neon tetras en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_n...
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A noteworthy addition to the Wikipedia page on black neon tetras en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_n...
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’
I appreciate this laser-centric birthstone roundup from @scishow.bsky.social
They mentioned a lot of lasers but missed one of my favorites, titanium sapphire (they got a lot of other cool sapphire applications though)
youtu.be/RvktoG4EGn8
They mentioned a lot of lasers but missed one of my favorites, titanium sapphire (they got a lot of other cool sapphire applications though)
youtu.be/RvktoG4EGn8
The Best Birthstone (According to Science)
YouTube video by SciShow
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I appreciate this laser-centric birthstone roundup from @scishow.bsky.social
They mentioned a lot of lasers but missed one of my favorites, titanium sapphire (they got a lot of other cool sapphire applications though)
youtu.be/RvktoG4EGn8
They mentioned a lot of lasers but missed one of my favorites, titanium sapphire (they got a lot of other cool sapphire applications though)
youtu.be/RvktoG4EGn8
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Every so often I think about the two grads students in my old lab who had to sort through hundreds of thousands of seafloor images to find ecologically interesting regions. One built this super sophisticated machine learning algorithm that was, honestly, very very impressive.
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Every so often I think about the two grads students in my old lab who had to sort through hundreds of thousands of seafloor images to find ecologically interesting regions. One built this super sophisticated machine learning algorithm that was, honestly, very very impressive.
Finished Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com today and I will be thinking about it for a while and probably rereading it soon. Just low key in tears in the hotel breakfast room but it’s not because I’m sad, it’s because dogs are so good
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Finished Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com today and I will be thinking about it for a while and probably rereading it soon. Just low key in tears in the hotel breakfast room but it’s not because I’m sad, it’s because dogs are so good
There are freshly signed copies of You Look Like a Thing And I Love You at the Denver Airport Terminal B Tattered Cover!
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
There are freshly signed copies of You Look Like a Thing And I Love You at the Denver Airport Terminal B Tattered Cover!
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"If Grokipedia is getting things about me wrong, what else is it getting wrong in other articles, where I do not have the same level of domain knowledge?" - @scalzi.com
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject
What? You didn’t know that Grokipedia exists? Well, it does, and it’s Elon Musk’s attempt to run Wikipedia out of town on a rail: An “AI”-generated compendium of infor…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"If Grokipedia is getting things about me wrong, what else is it getting wrong in other articles, where I do not have the same level of domain knowledge?" - @scalzi.com
I wrote a "haunted house" story featuring crappy AI and remote human workers who are doing their best!
It's called "The Skeleton Crew", and you can listen to it here
slate.com/podcasts/fut...
It's called "The Skeleton Crew", and you can listen to it here
slate.com/podcasts/fut...
Welcome to the A.I. Haunted House
On this month's episode of Future Tense Fiction, Janelle Shane discusses her short story “The Skeleton Crew.”
slate.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I wrote a "haunted house" story featuring crappy AI and remote human workers who are doing their best!
It's called "The Skeleton Crew", and you can listen to it here
slate.com/podcasts/fut...
It's called "The Skeleton Crew", and you can listen to it here
slate.com/podcasts/fut...
Reposted by Janelle Shane
BOO! 👻🎃👻
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BOO! 👻🎃👻
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
No costume for Halloween? No problem. Channel your inner sea urchin: go into your closet (or sunken treasure chest), and throw on all the outfits at once! A few clams, some snails, and carnivorous sponges for drama ought to help keep your fellow partiers in high spirits.
#Ecosde2Cañones
Relatedly, a question for people with agricultural knowledge:
if a paper says "samples were obtained from AG-Link International and were obtained from a Holstein bull (“Fillmore”)." does that mean the bull's name was Fillmore?
if a paper says "samples were obtained from AG-Link International and were obtained from a Holstein bull (“Fillmore”)." does that mean the bull's name was Fillmore?
There is a point to making a laser out of bull semen, of course. The researchers point out that the laser's quality was an immediate indication of the sperm count in the sample.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Relatedly, a question for people with agricultural knowledge:
if a paper says "samples were obtained from AG-Link International and were obtained from a Holstein bull (“Fillmore”)." does that mean the bull's name was Fillmore?
if a paper says "samples were obtained from AG-Link International and were obtained from a Holstein bull (“Fillmore”)." does that mean the bull's name was Fillmore?
Reposted by Janelle Shane
I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween costumes and do I have some costume suggestions for you! www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-neural-...
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I trained the tiny neural net on the latest set of reader-submitted Halloween costumes and do I have some costume suggestions for you! www.aiweirdness.com/tiny-neural-...
Reposted by Janelle Shane
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
Ozyman, Ozyman-
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
dias does what no mortal can
and his works? are they there?
no, but maybe still despair
This is just to say
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand
Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include:
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include:
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include:
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today's extremely cursed research rabbit hole: apparently the biological things people have made into lasers include:
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Cicada wing
Egg white (goose, which is clearer than chicken)
Potato
Chicken meat
Peacock feather
Vitamin B2
Olive oil
Spinach
Coral
Sunflower oil
Butter
Bone
Human organs
Bull semen
Reposted by Janelle Shane
Ghosts can be where you least expect them, especially wherever you last saw your earbuds. 👻✨
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ghosts can be where you least expect them, especially wherever you last saw your earbuds. 👻✨