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Lynn Cherny. Creative AI, NLP, data science, infovis, narrative, sci fi. Consultant in France. Bio: Ph.D. Linguistics at Stanford, studied online community, worked in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@arnicas, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Solid day of updating a backlog of french flash cards in firebase and getting them to display on a new TRMNL eink display, with significant Claude-ish help.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
A threejs conf report, doesn’t cover everything I liked but a sample and good pics ics.media/en/entry/260925/?utm_sour…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I’m only half done but the new Emily St. John Mandel is amazing
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Fantastic benchmark of Jev vs its “clones” from HuggingFace: DecisionIndex huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 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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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 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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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Also a game designer role: www.google.com/about/careers/applic…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
DeepMind is hiring a gameplay engineer in London. They have also hired an excellent narrative designer. www.google.com/about/careers/applic…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 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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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Wow I had drinks with the Sketchfab guys. New co in the works.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Epic example filled talk by Bruno Simon, driven by a game controller through animated slides
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Walked to the conf today
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Kim le Boutin’s mobile glitch web collection. - www.loadmo.re
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Messenger had by hand original typography
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I didn’t really recall that Vicente Lucendo made both these outstanding games in three.js
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Super resource if you are interested in French ebooks and audio books (free, public domain) bibliothequenumerique.tv5monde.com
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 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=claude-fab… E.g:
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
lol - 5 star review of the Bayeux Tapestry in the guardian www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/20…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Fascinating airport deal
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Long Man of Wilmington
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
In a uk old books pile
a loom of one’s own by virginia wool
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Google DeepMind article on 15 tears of Ai game research deepmind.google/blog/from-atari-to-…
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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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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
I posted about threejseval in my weekend newsletter - I’m super impressed by this tough battle won by the new Gemini flash 3.7 for pennies.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Actual thing Sol said to me as I analyze gothic novel sentences: “You do not enter Silence. Silence falls over the library. Wind moves through the gallery. Candlelight reveals the nursery. A veil obscures a portrait in the drawing-room.”
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Mont Blanc still blanc, thank goodness (hot even in the Alps)
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Everyone I follow who is a credentialed, serious AI researcher (and model trainer) is shaken by the alignment security breaches as that count goes up. All are sharing this Eric Wallace talk as a must watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
Constantly saying “wtf” at headlines these days
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
this is really amazing, if you care about image analysis.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Ah, covered in my newsletter but the weights came out after :) Minimax H3 model plus spaces for trying it: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
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MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
Latest newsletter: testing the new open weights video models (very good!) and the usual 3d/splat/three.js toys, a good look at AI gen fiction on Amazon (including sales), some games-adjacent links, web toys, data science tip/tools […]
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
Wow
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
I have new model exhaustion
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
This season of Silo — I find I don’t care at all about the historical backstory of how this happened; it’s too easily imaginable that a bunch of dumb assholes in power fucked up the world and made underground slave cultures with drugs and AI
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
Map from Le Monde of active European fires - look at Malta and Northern Africa egad
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Codex Sol xhigh - “Fix my nvidia gpu driver”.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Bizarre NYT headline on this HF case — “OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library”
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
40 mins from me is a municipal campground on a hill, in trees, that is 5 degrees cooler and has a little bar/restaurant. it’s always quiet, i think it’s a very well kept secret.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Google model delay […]
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
OMG this french found fonts/letter-shapes site vernacular.fr — via Matt Muir’s Web Curios. I’m in love and also why am I not camping in the french countryside rn, what is wrong with me
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Feeling a powerful desire to curate a set of my favorite collages people have made in that clipart.studio tool clipart.studio/gallery
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the gallery wall — clipart studio
A public wall of magazine collages made in clipart studio.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
hmm, this is really something from the new Kimi - a new web design winner that’s an open model.
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
RE: mstdn.social/@arnicas/1169233748761… Newsletter link open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/tit…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
I made a little telephone game set at a cocktail party with machine translation between the international guests... in the top of my latest newsletter with some details and also here: www.ghostweather.com/apps/cocktail-…
A cocktail guest's message is translated into english as "A beautiful world awaits you"
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Latest newsletter - lots of AI & Fiction research of note, some AI video award winners, Krea 2 LoRAs, three.js and procgen landscapes, games links mixed bag, web fun, etc. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/tit…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
Monday's newsletter covered Fable's Three.js codebases and examples, Reve 2 and Ideogram 4, Omni from Goog (briefly), a bunch of papers / articles / a tool re narrative generation & datasets, a sprinkle of weird / procgen web, poetics, tools. Collages […]
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
End of month post with 3 exhibitions in Paris right now - Cartes Imaginaire, Hilma af Klint, and Leonora Carrington. Then brief AI / games / narrative / ds links of interest. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/tit…
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
Little faery tale about worker fairies in my newsletter mid-month, among other weird links, especially weird LLM behavior, weird science, and the usual interesting AI espec. 3d via agents […]
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026
Latest newsletter update - lots of continued web game dev, more splats and 360ies, narrative, game, 3d! Vis of Aaron Reed's Subcutanean procgen novel. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/tit…
visual for the cover of newsletter, three.js cities, splats, variorum, flipbook...
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
A big end of the month, with a bunch of narrative generation/text-style-related links this time. Lots going on there. Plus MJ v8, Uni-1, three.js and splat news, art search engines, models of use (speech, ocr, etc), game books […]
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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
Latest newsletter post has a little on Art Brut (due to a museum visit) before the paywall. open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/tit…
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