iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 10/09/2026

Full res image: andymatuschak.org/files/Creati... Original paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 by @blue-phia.bsky.social, Sarah Abowitz, Yijun Liu, Sarah Sterman, @sh1m.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social. My favorite HCI paper of the year!

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

thanks for keeping this up! two notes: 1. CSRankings, GScholar etc treat Cornell Tech & University as the same institution, since depts are unified across the physical sites. being personally listed as the #66 top institution is not *that* bad tho :P 2. Elin left UCSC for U of Reykjavík in ~Aug 2025

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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

WE WANT YOU 🫵 if you’re a senior HCI researcher (senior PhD student, postdoc, professor, industry researcher, etc) for a study on reading & finding inspiration from literature! 📖🤔💭 More info + sign up here: bit.ly/research-reading w/ @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social @bjo3rn.bsky.social

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Research Reading Study Screener Survey

Thank you for your interest in participating in this research study! We are researchers at UC Berkeley interested in exploring how researchers of all experience levels read and gain inspiration from a...

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Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Want to make a game with friends in two hours? Here's a Bitsy for that. Just share the link from your address bar. jatazak.itch.io/multiplayer-...

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Multiplayer Bitsy by jatazak

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Would you like to contribute an OBJECT to live in a WAREHOUSE GAME? I'm working on a parser fiction game where you play as a worker in the warehouse of the gods- sorting, storing, rearranging objects, meandering. I need so many objects! Maybe even: one of yours? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Objects contribution for god's warehouse game

What is this? I'm (Everest) making a short parser fiction game where you are a worker in the warehouse of the gods, sorting and storing objects to the whims of holy creatures. Would you like to subm...

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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/06/2026

"BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS" The award-winning game/glitchy art program @smestorp.bsky.social and I made in 2013 has now been rereleased on Itch for modern OSes. Try it out!, and make sure to tell any friends you want to play a weird prank on mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-gre...

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

as of a few weeks ago it’s still planned to be part of the process for CHI 2027. i’m a bit skeptical of the implementation (triage by 10 random authors, probably mostly inexperienced, seems like a recipe for “anything slightly unusual gets ADRed”) but we def need to do more quick rejects *somehow*

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

afaict in HCI we're seeing both problems: the number of good-faith contributions is growing faster than the pool of qualified reviewers, but "throwing spaghetti at the wall" papers that weren't sufficiently reviewed *by their authors* are also consuming a steadily greater fraction of reviewer time

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 16/06/2026

How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

looks super timely and interesting, “creative activity tracing” is a major research focus for me at the moment! will share this around to some collaborators…

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 04/03/2026

with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

deadline extended to feb 20!! :-)

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

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Desire Paths for Wikipedia

An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.

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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

submit to our workshop so we can yap about creativity support & activity traces & understanding creative communities + processes + people better, together herding-cats-ws.github.io

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 20/01/2026

every time i moved my cursor in my browser today

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

yeah the vast majority of my posting has migrated to discord already. there’s a real porosity issue though – even the *existence* of an interesting discord is often opaque to people who aren’t already “insiders”. you need a more-permeable public social media space to gradually let new people in

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

a big part of the problem is drive-by replies from people with no relational “skin in the game”. a setting that restricts replies to only people followed by >=N people i follow might help – more generous than just “people i know already” but more restrictive than “randos from Discover”

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

congratulations, super well deserved!

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

poems are generated via the Savelost algorithm: given an input text, we repeatedly "compress" it by erasing a single letter at a time a text embedding model is used to evaluate deletion candidates & choose the one that least disrupts the "meaning" of the original input bsky.app/profile/maxk...

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

great paper! reminds me of some recent work in creativity support tools research on designing for "vertical movement" and "horizontal movement" between tools dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Beyond the Artifact: Power as a Lens for Creativity Support Tools | Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

so if you want a relatively straightforward prompting-based method i think unfortunately some kind of combinatory approach that incorporates an outside source of randomness/control is still as good as it gets

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

yeah, everything better seems to involve either: - complex sampling techniques – e.g., beam-searching for diverse strings in token sequence space dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... - finetuning – e.g., "forcing diffuse distributions" arxiv.org/abs/2404.10859; our recent COLM work arxiv.org/abs/2503.17126

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

also check out Luminate! rough process: 1. ask LLM for list of "dimensions" that stories might vary along (eg tone, genre, protag) 2. ask LLM for list of "values" each dim could take (eg protag -> young boy, old woman…) 3. generate stories with diff value combinations dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation | Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

i think a big driver of this (and reliance on AI in “evaluative” situations broadly) is that the evaluator’s goal is often less “make the right call” than “avoid being responsible for making the *wrong* call”

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

i'm kind of a doomer about this too but the x-axis *does* seem to mysteriously end right around the year 2020

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 14/10/2025

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
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From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

i think of these as “target callers” and have been contemplating ways to autodetect them (see thread) bsky.app/profile/maxk...

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ya i’ve only gone a couple times but it’s so huge that i mostly just find it draining

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

tempted but not sure, soooo much travel coming up this fall. UIST + Portland + Northwestern for sure, plus maybe COLM EMNLP AIIDE NeurIPS. hbu

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

wait this is kinda profound tho. a trace of the true self remains in the false self

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Alex Calderwood @xenoscope.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress #vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors

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Hidden Door @hiddendoor.co · 13/08/2025

We’re launching early access 🔥today🔥! Hidden Door is where roleplaying meets fanfic. Rise from the beyond to wreak vengeance in The Crow, go rivals-to-lovers in Pride & Prejudice, lean into after-dark vibes with Courtship & Crimson, and so many more!

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Blog | Introducing Early Access · Hidden Door

We love stories! Books, movies, TV shows, comics, games: we love them all. But the thing about them is, well, they end—and when it’s over, it’s over. But what if you want to hold onto the magical feeling of that world? That experience of reliving the

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

yeah, the currently online version is correct as of the last time i checked! didn't see that correction language tho, points for internal consistency i guess

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

i’m biased bc Noah was one of my phd advisors, but i still think his take on “alternative”, “expansive”, and “inventive” approaches to relating mechanics and meaning (from How Pac-Man Eats) provides a good theoretical framework for addressing these questions manchestergamecentre.org/blog-db/2021...

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How Pac-Man Eats (book review) — Manchester Game Centre

In this blog post, Man Met Game Centre member Rob Gallagher reviews How Pac-Man Eats by Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

what provokes that kind of reflection, though, seems really hard to predict. so it's very unclear to me that this particular mode of engagement will reliably push people more in one direction than the other, especially when you change the framing around the basic interaction

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

i think it also depends on whether we stop at "wow, cool!" or actually start reflecting on how the experience of the riff relates to that of the original work. the Nighthawks instance was presented as "wow, cool" but it got *me* thinking about the scene from literal angles i hadn't considered before

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

as an artist i’d much rather a world where people are making all kinds of stupid riffs on my work a few decades or centuries or millennia from now… than a world where people have Figured Out The Meaning + stopped really engaging with it

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

this is why i tend to think of it as good to get people *playing* with art by whatever means. mere defamiliarization of the monumental is sometimes enough to revive the meaning-making process around a work previously thought to be Fully Understood & thus interpretively ~dead

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

obviously not all riffs on monuments are equally good or interesting – a riff that serves only to reinforce the original received meaning of the work, for instance, might do little of note. but even *careless* riffs can serve to get the blood pumping again through a monument’s calcified veins

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

one thing i’ve always appreciated about artists as a group is their irreverence. art history is full of explicit challenges to the monumentality of past monuments; when artists play around with or riff on monuments, they paradoxically *reinvigorate* these monuments, imbuing them with new life

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

but a monument can also be *pulled down*, back to the level of a document – for instance if we examine its specifics closely, discard or challenge the fixed interpretation of its meaning, open a new chapter in its interpretive history. this is a core activity of humanistic research

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

a document that is sufficiently widely circulated & debated tends to *calcify*: an interpretive consensus develops around its meaning & we start referring in our discussions to this interpretation of the work rather than the original work directly. it becomes a monument

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