Wrenji
@wrenji.bsky.social
Weird entity studying whatever I can get my hands on. Currently finishing my Digital Humanities degree. Occasional editor, artist and game designer. Any pronouns :)
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Apropos of the weekend's conversations, a thread of some of our pieces talking about archives and research practices, just from this past year.
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”
How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Apropos of the weekend's conversations, a thread of some of our pieces talking about archives and research practices, just from this past year.
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
We start with frequent contributor @kmfranseen.bsky.social
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Interesting thread
I would like to articulate one of the BIGGEST misconceptions about cat breed genetics by talking about the NEBELUNG!
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
An extremely rare breed with only SIX(6) in the whole US, and no breeders, yet one that thousands of folk online are convinced they own.
Your cat is NOT any breed, and that's okay.
December 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Interesting thread
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I’ve not talked about the LLM bubble on here yet, as mostly I discuss technical rather than economic issues, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. Especially while reading Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Here are some thoughts.
December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I’ve not talked about the LLM bubble on here yet, as mostly I discuss technical rather than economic issues, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit. Especially while reading Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Here are some thoughts.
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this is a really good piece of writing and i am very glad i read it and i think you might be too.
LRT and this—lots of good writing on the subject of Ruin, lately. I wonder why! Probably good reasons, surely. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is a really good piece of writing and i am very glad i read it and i think you might be too.
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my favorite pieces from 2025
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
my favorite pieces from 2025
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I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power
Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”
folukeafrica.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I wrote this with so much love. Through his biography, his own words & the music of those who remember him, I invite us once again to think critically about what decolonisation means through the life of a man who lived and died for it. Long live Amílcar Cabral.
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
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i think art is good, and i think recognizing when artists are doing something new and weird is also good.
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
i think art is good, and i think recognizing when artists are doing something new and weird is also good.
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
here's me losing my shit about fake video games for nearly 2 hours
youtu.be/5hkkCbxoaz0
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
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I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
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OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
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it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :)
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :)
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
- work in progress!
(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)
#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
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My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
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Das Thema Umfragen, wie sie aufgesetzt sind, wie damit umgegangen wird, was daraus gemacht wird, wann sie Aufmerksamkeitsverschaffer sind, wer nicht genau hinschaut, ist ein riesengroßes. Das ist auch systemisch verankert in Strukturen, Workflows. Meine Haltung: überfällig, dass das angepackt wird.
October 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Das Thema Umfragen, wie sie aufgesetzt sind, wie damit umgegangen wird, was daraus gemacht wird, wann sie Aufmerksamkeitsverschaffer sind, wer nicht genau hinschaut, ist ein riesengroßes. Das ist auch systemisch verankert in Strukturen, Workflows. Meine Haltung: überfällig, dass das angepackt wird.
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I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
Who are the dolls which must be protected? - Trans Writes
Ari Drennen, journalist and LGBTQ+ director at Media Matters, tweeted the above on 14/10/25. There are three ways I can think of to analyse her comments:
transwrites.world
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
transwrites.world/who-are-the-...
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This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.
Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...
Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio
The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.
www.cartoonbrew.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.
Mind boggling and amazing!
As a lifelong origami enthusiast there may be some bias, but I highly recommend checking out this article.
As a lifelong origami enthusiast there may be some bias, but I highly recommend checking out this article.
Origami crease patterns such as those used to fold a paper crane reveal hidden secrets about the amplituhedron, a shape that physicists use to calculate particle collisions. www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
October 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Mind boggling and amazing!
As a lifelong origami enthusiast there may be some bias, but I highly recommend checking out this article.
As a lifelong origami enthusiast there may be some bias, but I highly recommend checking out this article.
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Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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■▹ 𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑 ◃■
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
■▹ 𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚑 ◃■
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Let's say I want to make a ranked list of "Illiad" heroes.
If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result.
Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).
If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result.
Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Let's say I want to make a ranked list of "Illiad" heroes.
If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result.
Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).
If I use the recorded 1 vs. 1 duels and the Chess ELO rating system, I get this result.
Is there an alternative method that accounts for the data being censored (ie, in most duels the loser no longer appears in the data).