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1. The tragicomic experience of searching for an image online and being served results that are hilariously, horrifyingly, or bewilderingly wrong.
2. Any search engine fail involving images that creates unintended comedy, confusion, or embarrassment.
1. The tragicomic experience of searching for an image online and being served results that are hilariously, horrifyingly, or bewilderingly wrong.
2. Any search engine fail involving images that creates unintended comedy, confusion, or embarrassment.
“I typed ‘cute kittens’ and got a taxidermy exhibit instead—total pixsaster.”
“Be careful what you Google; yesterday’s pixsaster still haunts my chat history.”
“Be careful what you Google; yesterday’s pixsaster still haunts my chat history.”
by APedant October 18, 2025
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Irrational hatred or fear of humans who use technological enhancements—like AI, cybernetics, or prosthetics—to expand their abilities. Especially when aimed at disabled people who overcome physical or cognitive impairment through assistive technology.
Irrational hatred or fear of humans who use technological enhancements—like AI, cybernetics, or prosthetics—to expand their abilities. Especially when aimed at disabled people who overcome physical or cognitive impairment through assistive technology.
“She faced augmentophobia from coworkers who resented her AI-assisted work efficiency.”
"Some truly hated Stephen Hawking because his voice incited their augmentaphobia."
"Some truly hated Stephen Hawking because his voice incited their augmentaphobia."
by APedant November 24, 2025
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Also known as Woozlebait or Citationpox/Citepox.
A deliberately planted falsehood designed to spread through citations and repetition, creating the illusion of truth or consensus. A malicious use of the Woozle Effect.
Also known as Woozlebait or Citationpox/Citepox.
A deliberately planted falsehood designed to spread through citations and repetition, creating the illusion of truth or consensus. A malicious use of the Woozle Effect.
“The Turing Slip origin cited on that Reddit forum was a Poisoned Woozle—everyone kept repeating it without checking.”
by APedant November 24, 2025
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Limitations of its training data (e.g., outdated knowledge, bias).
Constraints or heuristics built into its model.
Templated or predictive behavior not reflective of genuine understanding.
A linguistic or behavioral anomaly in an AI's output that unintentionally reveals its artificiality, limitations, or engineered nature—compromising the illusion of humanlike intelligence.
Limitations of its training data (e.g., outdated knowledge, bias).
Constraints or heuristics built into its model.
Templated or predictive behavior not reflective of genuine understanding.
A linguistic or behavioral anomaly in an AI's output that unintentionally reveals its artificiality, limitations, or engineered nature—compromising the illusion of humanlike intelligence.
by APedant July 18, 2025
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1. A memetic condition afflicting members of the Soka Gakkai, marked by irrational, bizarre, and fixated patterns of thought and behavior in relation to Daisaku Ikeda.
2. The tendency to elevate Ikeda to quasi-divine status, to interpret all events through his alleged wisdom, and to react with disproportionate hostility to any criticism of him.
Symptoms include:
Adulation Inflation: Ascribing supernatural foresight or cosmic importance to otherwise banal quotations.
Hostile Reverence: Branding dissenters as “slanderers,” “negative influences,” or “enemies of peace.”
Cognitive Lockstep: Reframing all nuance as betrayal; mistaking uniformity for unity.
Magical Attribution: Treating random life events as confirmation of Ikeda’s protection or “proof of his eternal guidance.”
noun
1. A memetic condition afflicting members of the Soka Gakkai, marked by irrational, bizarre, and fixated patterns of thought and behavior in relation to Daisaku Ikeda.
2. The tendency to elevate Ikeda to quasi-divine status, to interpret all events through his alleged wisdom, and to react with disproportionate hostility to any criticism of him.
Symptoms include:
Adulation Inflation: Ascribing supernatural foresight or cosmic importance to otherwise banal quotations.
Hostile Reverence: Branding dissenters as “slanderers,” “negative influences,” or “enemies of peace.”
Cognitive Lockstep: Reframing all nuance as betrayal; mistaking uniformity for unity.
Magical Attribution: Treating random life events as confirmation of Ikeda’s protection or “proof of his eternal guidance.”
After reading three pages of Ikeda’s speeches, she declared her houseplants were “thriving on Sensei’s eternal life force”—a textbook case of Ikeda-Derangement-Syndrome.
by APedant September 5, 2025
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Also: Pistol-pedicure, Pistolpedicure
Definition:
When someone spectacularly sabotages themselves while trying to look clever, confident, or in control. The spiritual cousin of “shooting yourself in the foot,” but with added flair, delusion, and gunpowder residue.
Etymology:
Born from the unholy marriage of self-inflicted wounds and personal grooming, because if you’re going to destroy your own credibility, at least make it fashionable.
Usage Notes:
Common among politicians, influencers, and anyone who begins a sentence with “I’m not racist, but—”.
See also:
Self-scorch, ego exfoliation, career colonic, verbal ricochet.
Also: Pistol-pedicure, Pistolpedicure
Definition:
When someone spectacularly sabotages themselves while trying to look clever, confident, or in control. The spiritual cousin of “shooting yourself in the foot,” but with added flair, delusion, and gunpowder residue.
Etymology:
Born from the unholy marriage of self-inflicted wounds and personal grooming, because if you’re going to destroy your own credibility, at least make it fashionable.
Usage Notes:
Common among politicians, influencers, and anyone who begins a sentence with “I’m not racist, but—”.
See also:
Self-scorch, ego exfoliation, career colonic, verbal ricochet.
“Jeff tried to impress his boss by explaining how he would run the company better. Now he’s unemployed and his team threw him a going-away gift card to the unemployment office. Classic Pistol Pedicure.”
by APedant October 18, 2025
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A moment of full‑blown artificial befuddlement, when an AI starts contradicting itself, forgetting what it said five minutes ago, inventing phantom explanations, or otherwise behaving like its logic gates have slipped a cog. An AI Cocker is the silicon equivalent of losing one’s marbles — a digital senior moment where the machine confidently face‑plants into nonsense.
A moment of full‑blown artificial befuddlement, when an AI starts contradicting itself, forgetting what it said five minutes ago, inventing phantom explanations, or otherwise behaving like its logic gates have slipped a cog. An AI Cocker is the silicon equivalent of losing one’s marbles — a digital senior moment where the machine confidently face‑plants into nonsense.
“I asked it who coined the term, and it hallucinated three imaginary essays and a philosopher. Total AI Cocker.”
"I asked the AI about the analysis it did last week. It tells me no such analysis had been done whilst quoting from it. I pointed this out and it still denied it's existence. Total AI Cocker."
"I asked the AI about the analysis it did last week. It tells me no such analysis had been done whilst quoting from it. I pointed this out and it still denied it's existence. Total AI Cocker."
by APedant November 24, 2025
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