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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Friday exercise: using Jev to help split up narration vs dialog and then TTS to build an audiobook, comparing new Gemini tts with Elevenlabs v4. 1/2

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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Eink flash card display is great but wth is with some of these sentences

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arnicas @arnicas.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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

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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