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Janelle Shane

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I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com Also a laser scientist. She/her. Colorado, USA

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see if someone with grammarly can write a couple of paragraphs that are all keysmash and then turn on editing advice?

11.03.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they'd be nuts to have it out there without at least a little hat

11.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
11.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 452 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

That could be

Doesn't explain the purple lava later, but would explain the magenta

11.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Webcam screenshot showing some squiggly motion blur and deep magenta blobs against a black background

Webcam screenshot showing some squiggly motion blur and deep magenta blobs against a black background

Less motion blur, still magenta, starting to look like a field of rocks

Less motion blur, still magenta, starting to look like a field of rocks

The magenta color is fading into a light pink wash and now the image is clearly a big rock (lower left) against a field of smaller rocks

The magenta color is fading into a light pink wash and now the image is clearly a big rock (lower left) against a field of smaller rocks

Same view as before, now stationary and grey, like a normal camera image of some very jagged grey rocks.

Same view as before, now stationary and grey, like a normal camera image of some very jagged grey rocks.

That first Kilauea lava webcam hit at 11:12:57, which looks really cool. No idea why the colors all turn red like that for half a second

11.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blurry image from volcano webcam. Note that just the lava plume and the lava on the ground are purple, not the sky or the other parts of the ground, making it less likely to me that we lost an entire color channel due to a loose cable or something. But excess IR is usually filtered out with a physical filter so how could this happen yet be corrected later?

Blurry image from volcano webcam. Note that just the lava plume and the lava on the ground are purple, not the sky or the other parts of the ground, making it less likely to me that we lost an entire color channel due to a loose cable or something. But excess IR is usually filtered out with a physical filter so how could this happen yet be corrected later?

This is the part between two hits where the lava turned purple for a while. I usually associate that with WAY too much IR hitting the camera (source: used an iphone camera to look at the spots from powerful IR lasers) but I'm not sure what would cause that just temporarily.

11.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of volcano webcam. Image is very blurry but is barely recognizable as the lava plume from an erupting volcano

screenshot of volcano webcam. Image is very blurry but is barely recognizable as the lava plume from an erupting volcano

They manage to get it pointed back at the volcano at 14:09:34 which is honestly impressive considering how many direct hits it has taken

11.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bonked again at 12:53:12 and now the colors are back to normal so hmmm, sure looked like too much IR earlier though.

It would be really interesting to see an image of the camera itself at this point

11.03.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

hit again at 11:31:50 and now it's having trouble focusing and the colors are weird. like too much IR?

Could it somehow have lost its IR filter and lens?? Lens damaged I could just about see but IR filter?

11.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater)
[V1cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (west HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater) YouTube video by USGS

wow the west webcam at the Kilauea crater has been having a very bad day

direct by falling rock at 11:12:57 turns everything red for a second
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

11.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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[V3cam] KΔ«lauea volcano, Hawaii (south HalemaΚ»umaΚ»u crater) YouTube video by USGS

Oooh the Kilauea live cam right now is πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸŒ‹ !!!
πŸ§ͺ

www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

10.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

This sounds amazing, I definitely need to try it!

I tried a Google Maps search for cheese atayef near me and it came up with a bunch of pictures nearby but on closer inspection they’re all arepas and dumplings and cheesecake.

06.03.2026 06:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, I never knew David Perry played Irish music too! Great article

06.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

www.optica-opn.org/home/gallery...
Wow that is pretty

And a little cursed, I always think getting additional lasers in new colors from a transparent crystal is spooky

27.02.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe platform was also nearly 12 times more likely to downplay symptoms because the β€œpatient” told it a β€œfriend” in the scenario suggested it was nothing serious.”

And they’re telling people to use it FOR health advice! I hope they get their butts sued.

27.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You really need to hear the audio in this article, it's unbelievable

27.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW:
Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

27.02.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 244 πŸ” 286 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Which Jupiter is ours? Warm Jupiter?

26.02.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yessss! Love what Adjoa Andoh does with your books!

24.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
art of two jawless, flat-headed fish called zihaiaspis wuningensis with what can only be described as 0: expressions

art of two jawless, flat-headed fish called zihaiaspis wuningensis with what can only be described as 0: expressions

pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction

21.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 422 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 10

So: Painting finished circa 1500 CE. The reel fragment lies dormant and seemingly ignored(?) until in 2014 a Tumblr user named Amelia Hamrick transcribed it and a YouTube user named James Spalink arranged and recorded it. A 515-year collaboration. What Hell left unfinished the Internet has completed

20.02.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*

I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

18.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 1975 πŸ” 677 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 122
Computer screen with a word document open, nearly entirely blocked by two cats on the desk

Computer screen with a word document open, nearly entirely blocked by two cats on the desk

Me too! High levels of cat occlusion today

17.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! What platform are you using for the store?

17.02.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That looks amazing!!! I love the pattern - all that texture really pops.

14.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I enjoyed the book!

How is the cheese??

13.02.2026 20:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When I had a cold I dreamt that aliens needed to use my body’s molecular hardware for intensive computations. The only thing the clinic could do for people like me was provide nice soft beds to nap on. I asked if anyone had tried communicating with the aliens about time sharing or something but no.

13.02.2026 03:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

pssst, wanna see a weird laser?

12.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.

The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.

Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.

So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.

11.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Optics!! Now you need some purple laser crystals

11.02.2026 04:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0