Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social
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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Kerning can save lives.
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Kerning can save lives.
@do.minik.us like a dipshit i did a "well actually" reply, what was i thinking.
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@do.minik.us like a dipshit i did a "well actually" reply, what was i thinking.
time to step away from the computer when the procgen vs. ai debate gets going :(
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
time to step away from the computer when the procgen vs. ai debate gets going :(
i guess that’s what happens when you post random ideas into the ether 🤷🏻♀️
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i guess that’s what happens when you post random ideas into the ether 🤷🏻♀️
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🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
🚨 #CfA - EADH Small Grants 2025–2026🚨
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026) | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities
We are delighted to announce that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) is launching a new Small Grants funding round.
eadh.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
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AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Twenty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
| Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intera...
ojs.aaai.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
AIIDE '25 proceedings are up! And the conference starts in two days. 🧳✈️
@alphachar.bsky.social evidently i'd rather do any hacking rather than be actually writing anything - i made a toy using @britishlibrary.bsky.social images and a list of nouns: ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-...
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@alphachar.bsky.social evidently i'd rather do any hacking rather than be actually writing anything - i made a toy using @britishlibrary.bsky.social images and a list of nouns: ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Latest newsletter (free) covers the newest AI video models, some misc 3d tools, an OCR model bonanza, a few games links including a fun new AI-assisted 2d tile project, my fairytale hunt project, and more... arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-72-f...
TITAA #72: Fairy Tale Hunters
OCR Bonanza - Real-time Video - Inkwell - Fairytales - Cursed Houses - Training Tips
arnicas.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Latest newsletter (free) covers the newest AI video models, some misc 3d tools, an OCR model bonanza, a few games links including a fun new AI-assisted 2d tile project, my fairytale hunt project, and more... arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-72-f...
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A bunch of new AI jobs at Lego, based in London:
AI Engineer
AI Data Engineer
AI Infrastructure Engineer
AI Visual Experience Engineer
Senior AI Product Manager
AI Engineer
AI Data Engineer
AI Infrastructure Engineer
AI Visual Experience Engineer
Senior AI Product Manager
Current job openings - LEGO Digital Play
Job openings at LEGO Digital Play
careers.legodigitalplay.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A bunch of new AI jobs at Lego, based in London:
AI Engineer
AI Data Engineer
AI Infrastructure Engineer
AI Visual Experience Engineer
Senior AI Product Manager
AI Engineer
AI Data Engineer
AI Infrastructure Engineer
AI Visual Experience Engineer
Senior AI Product Manager
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PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
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It's officially crisp sandwich day! Celebrate by putting some slices of fried potato between bread and reading Web Curios, a perfect accompaniment to pretty much any lunchtime treat (except soup, which, weirdly, it pairs REALLY badly with): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...
October 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's officially crisp sandwich day! Celebrate by putting some slices of fried potato between bread and reading Web Curios, a perfect accompaniment to pretty much any lunchtime treat (except soup, which, weirdly, it pairs REALLY badly with): webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-24...
Icymi, have a play with my fairytale text search toy -- select a segment of the text to search for a related text, here going from baskets to islands! all running in the browser with a tiny embedding model. #dh #nlp www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Icymi, have a play with my fairytale text search toy -- select a segment of the text to search for a related text, here going from baskets to islands! all running in the browser with a tiny embedding model. #dh #nlp www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
Hugging Face’s new overview of OCR models and when to fine tune etc huggingface.co/blog/ocr-ope...
Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
October 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hugging Face’s new overview of OCR models and when to fine tune etc huggingface.co/blog/ocr-ope...
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Hey fairytale fans - I made a little semantic search game from fairytale texts over my summer vacation... give it a try? It runs entirely in the browser, using a small semantic search index from Hugging Face. www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hey fairytale fans - I made a little semantic search game from fairytale texts over my summer vacation... give it a try? It runs entirely in the browser, using a small semantic search index from Hugging Face. www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
Hey fairytale fans - I made a little semantic search game from fairytale texts over my summer vacation... give it a try? It runs entirely in the browser, using a small semantic search index from Hugging Face. www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hey fairytale fans - I made a little semantic search game from fairytale texts over my summer vacation... give it a try? It runs entirely in the browser, using a small semantic search index from Hugging Face. www.ghostweather.com/apps/fairyta...
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It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
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📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
CoMMA
comma.inria.fr
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1
(1/🧵)
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Veo3.1 is out
search.app/UP531
search.app/UP531
Introducing Veo 3.1 and advanced capabilities in Flow
Today, we’re introducing new and enhanced creative capabilities to edit your clips.
search.app
October 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Veo3.1 is out
search.app/UP531
search.app/UP531
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I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
Call for Submissions
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.
eliterature.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.
This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!
lol and argh at the same time 😜
Ledgerbound: A narrative/relationship/tactical game where you play as an insurance adjuster who replays battles to prove that the heroes who died perished due to their ineptitude so that you can deny the claims.
store.steampowered.com/app/3315060/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3315060/...
Ledgerbound on Steam
The world may end, but more importantly: your job is on the line. Step onto the battlefield, befriend (and fall in love with) a ragtag crew of heroes, and go head-to-head against an immortal foe to pr...
store.steampowered.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
lol and argh at the same time 😜
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Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
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🌟 We’re hiring!
EPFL’s School of Computer & Communication Sciences (IC) is recruiting tenure-track faculty in Learning Sciences & EdTech — AI, AR/VR, learning analytics & more.
Apply now! Eval. begins Nov 1, 2025 👉
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Faculty Positions in Computer & Communication Sciences – Learning Sciences
The School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in learning sciences and educational technologies, with a focus on computational ...
www.epfl.ch
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🌟 We’re hiring!
EPFL’s School of Computer & Communication Sciences (IC) is recruiting tenure-track faculty in Learning Sciences & EdTech — AI, AR/VR, learning analytics & more.
Apply now! Eval. begins Nov 1, 2025 👉
www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵
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I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/
February 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/
I've had covid for the past few days (augh), and my weird dreams are almost all tech-related: first night had malevolent JSON, with weird nesting and recursion; last night, Claude Cars with little Anthropic logo remotes. Why can't my brain do better, cmon.
October 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I've had covid for the past few days (augh), and my weird dreams are almost all tech-related: first night had malevolent JSON, with weird nesting and recursion; last night, Claude Cars with little Anthropic logo remotes. Why can't my brain do better, cmon.