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Lynn Cherny

@arnicas.bsky.social
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Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 28/09/2026
Light through a forest canopy, rendered in real time by @measure_plan. Visuals and sound are written in code.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quantum snails in a game bug: "Why they flipped: a snail's body was drawn pointing exactly where it had just decided to go, so any sudden change of mind showed as an instant flip." (All games have weird bugs.)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked Claude for an explainer on the paper that inspired Emily St John Mandel for Exit Party and it was quietly scathing. (It would be crazy not to have the best LLMs critique your research these days.)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me to claude: “why don’t you keep working on that while i go to lunch?” — actually makes me feel guilty.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A threejs conf report, doesn't cover everything I liked but a sample and good pics
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Three.js Conf Paris 2026 conference report - ICS MEDIA
Three.js Conf Paris 2026 took place in Paris on September 10–11, 2026. It was the first conference dedicated to Three.js, the JavaScript 3D library.
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Web Curios is 3 hours early today because I am going to a wedding, giving you all the time you need to click EVERY SINGLE URL. The week's best internet - EAT MY LINKS! Share! Enjoy! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-25...
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@simonwillison.net good grief: www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
washingtonpost.com
Scientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.
“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton.
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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Benjamin Breen on using Opus/Astra to work on alchemical and occult codes, as well as other unsolved historic cyphers resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-ne...
resobscura.substack.com
AI labs need to start funding historical research
Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Claude to me: "Can you run the sidebar test again in your terminal." I am a meat puppet.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our journalism program is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor of quantitative/data journalism.
american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Assistant Professor / Associate Professor of Journalism in Data Science and Quantitative Methods
American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are only 3 days left to vote in this year's Tiny Awards, so if you are yet to explore the nominations then this is the perfect time to remind yourself that the internet is still good (and to pick your favourite website of the year to win a small prize & handmade trophy): tinyawards.net/vote/
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm only half done but the new Emily St. John Mandel is amazing
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fantastic benchmark of Jev vs its "clones" from HuggingFace: DecisionIndex huggingface.co/spaces/multimo...
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I can't get Marcia Baïla out of my head, since IG has hit me with many videos of it since Catherine Ringer died (french rock 1980s+). This is my fav very weird video of it, though it doesn't have the same angry energy some live perfs had www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWl...
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Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla (Clip Officiel)
YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Weekend AI overload - got into the World Labs Atlas preview (no idea how to use it but trying), summarizing fiction (so hard), and building a three js game
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JEV, I AM IN!! Will classify all the things tomorrow.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can't lie, I really want to classify big data in seconds at scale without having to train anything (Jev ref)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I paid for a Shingles vaccination in France and it is kicking my ass.. wow.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also a game designer role:
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Game Designer, Games, DeepMind
DeepMind has long-established connections with gaming, whether through early AI-breakthroughs mastering Atari games or Starcraft, and more recent research with Genie and SIMA agents. We are looking for a Game Designer with a deep understanding of core, player psychology, and interactive storytelling to help us architect a new generation of breakthrough experiences. If you are a systems-thinker who views AI not just as technology, but as a brand-new design material, we want you on the team. Inception runs like a startup, balancing high energy idea generation with pragmatic, clear and regularly refined operations. This collaborative, multidisciplinary group is situated primarily in London and Mountain View with collaborators across the globe. It has a sizable and different portfolio of early stage, design focused projects, with a focus on breakthrough experiences that wouldn’t be possible without AI. Your mission is to design core loops, mechanics, and gameplay systems that would be fundamentally impossible without AI. You will be the creative glue bridging the gap between machine learning research and player-facing fun. As a Game Designer, you will advocate a show, don't tell culture by translating abstract AI capabilities into tangible game prototypes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define player agency, map out system dynamics, and steer creative ideation sessions that push the boundaries of modern game design. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DeepMind is hiring a gameplay engineer in London. They have also hired an excellent narrative designer.
google.com
Gameplay Engineer, Games, DeepMind
As a Gameplay Engineer and Prototyper in Inception, you will build interactive experiences, blurring the lines between game development and AI research. Your mission is to move beyond traditional game engineering to show what is possible when generative models and agentic workflows become core mechanics. You will be a key bridge between research and design, moving fast to stand up 0-to-1 prototypes, crafting expert pipelines when necessary, and finding novel technical solutions to creative problems. You will work in a cross-functional environment where every project involves significant experimentation, rapid iteration, and close collaboration. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's true my agents can call your agents and get shit done, but going physically to a place to talk to other people over drinks — still priceless
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow I had drinks with the Sketchfab guys. New co in the works.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Epic example filled talk by Bruno Simon, driven by a game controller through animated slides
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two talks from software devs (react three fiber, gsap) saying community input, convo has died while installs go up - AI is user now, but how do they improve the libs without useful feedback? And a morale problem for open source devs.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really interesting 3d world startup I hadn't seen yet -Thrixel. Will play w/ for my newsletter. www.thrixel.com
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Walked to the conf today
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kim le Boutin's mobile glitch web collection. - www.loadmo.re
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Messenger had by hand original typography
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I didn't really recall that Vicente Lucendo made both these outstanding games in three.js
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@nicoptere.bsky.social the fal workshop was actually really fun - guy who taught it is responsible for a ton of cool Loras and projects and Fal is behind a lot of tools we didn't know about (serverless Suno serving for instance)
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 3 models the Fal.ai recs for video are Seedance 2.0 (not .5 because of cost and excess moderation), Wan 3 and H3 (fits my nl reviews)
fal.ai
Generative AI | Run Image, Video, 3D and Audio Models | fal
Easiest & most cost-effective way to use Gen AI. fal.ai is how devs integrate dozens of generative media models. FLUX, Kling, Hailuo +1000 more
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fal.ai guy used Nano Banana Lite to demo making a character sheet and she came out named Elara Vance
fal.ai
Generative AI | Run Image, Video, 3D and Audio Models | fal
Easiest & most cost-effective way to use Gen AI. fal.ai is how devs integrate dozens of generative media models. FLUX, Kling, Hailuo +1000 more
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
guy teaching the Fal.ai workshop at threejs conf worked at dogstudio on the Coca Cola AI ad made with comfyui
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Buy gal.ai | Spaceship
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@markriedl.bsky.social did you see this x.com/ccui9/status...
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Christopher Z. Cui (@ccui9) on X
GPT-6 Astra has conquered the underground empire. We finally have a model that can beat Zork1, dropped in game, minimal harness, 500 steps, max thinking effort.
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:... The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ok, after a few mins seeing everyone on my X list lose their shit over Astra’s blender skills, I’m going for Mont St Michel today with historical tour details. Will report back.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Super resource if you are interested in French ebooks and audio books (free, public domain)
bibliothequenumerique.tv5monde.com
+ de 600 classiques francophones à lire et écouter | Livres audio et eBooks gratuits | Bibliothèque numérique TV5MONDE
La bibliothèque numérique francophone 100 % gratuite pour lire et écouter plus de 600 classiques littéraires en PDF, EPUB & audio, partout dans le monde et en intégralité.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You don't necessarily need to pay a lot for interesting three.js generation — threejs eval (as seen in my nl) has some good test cases and the Gemini flash models are rapidly improving. threejseval.com/models?m=clau... E.g:
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This impressed me: GPT-5.6 Astra turned Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D playable action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs code. Play: zork-underground-empire.netlify.app
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
lol - 5 star review of the Bayeux Tapestry in the guardian
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The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth
The greatest battle ever depicted in art is here at last – and it hurtles along, making your heart pound with its sense of doom and destiny, culminating in fires and corpses on a battlefield full of pathos
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Waxy.org @waxy.org · 02/09/2026
Unusual Suspects — Neal.fun's latest is a sketch artist game where you draw famous characters from witness testimony
neal.fun
Unusual Suspects
Sketch the suspect from witness testimony
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We have whittled down all the nominations to our shortlist for the 2026 Tiny Awards! 11 of the most beautiful, interesting, heartfelt, weird, silly websites from the past year, for you to explore and enjoy and vote on - pick your favourite, vote for the winner, TELL THE WORLD! tinyawards.net/vote/
An image of the Tiny Awards logo with the word 'VOTE' underneath it
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fascinating airport deal
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this was newsletter material for me but since end of month issue is dubious (due to travels):
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Long Man of Wilmington
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In a uk old books pile
a loom of one’s own by virginia wool
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Google DeepMind article on 15 tears of Ai game research
deepmind.google
Exploring new frontiers of AI and games research
Google DeepMind partners with game developers to build generalist agents like SIMA 2 and unlock breakthrough gameplay experiences across persistent worlds.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
how it’s going: airport bar with drunk uk folks facing a delayed discount flight to luton, they’re actually hilarious (i’m not)
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