I made a little app for writerly inspiration that gives you 3 random nouns from a list, then gets 3 pictures from @britishlibrary 's CC0 scanned book images on flickr. https://ghostweather.com/apps/flickr-inspo/

My fairytale semantic search app, i forgot the link: https://ghostweather.com/apps/fairytale-hunt/

Hey, I made a fairytale semantic search app! Select part of the text, and navigate to a new text snippet. Find themes! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ghygca5j533iez1r8qh6j/Screen-Recording-2025-10-18-at-2.58.41-PM.mov?rlkey=qyh1yqz55i818u5lqyo3ld6fq&dl=0 #dh #folklore

What is a door? And why are the AI generated ones so... weird? It's like hands, but more liminal, by definition I guess. In my latest newsletter with the other news of the past 2 weeks and weirdness of the past month. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-what-is-a-door-anyway

AnyMap tile puzzle creator, also featured in my latest newsletter! https://bothness.github.io/anymap/R120965?maptiles=watercolor&gridsize=4

And this lovely article on Desire Paths in open world games, hard to screencap https://media.cordite.org.au/degrees-of-freedom-in-live-space/ #Games

And a new scrollytelling datavis project announcing the Getty's Provenance database https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/ #Museums

Victor Hugo was an amazing artist as well. I wrote up a visit to an exhibition in London about his strange ink art, castles and ink stains and more. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/04/victor-hugo-drawings/ #Museums

I wrote up an experiment doing interpolation between semantic vectors in Gutenberg Books data, part of my Nanogenmo 2024 project. https://ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2025/01/interpolated-text-embeddings/

Curious about bluesky? my opener has some tips on tools for getting started. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-605-blueskies-after-dimension?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

@angusm found their new site for the first time in decades

The French owl treasure hunt in my latest newsletter (free intro). Then a bunch of the usual news links and AI video tool outputs and esoteric and weird data. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-595-the-owl-treasure-hunt?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Latest post intro is about AI in aerial archaeology, specifically the latest Naxca geoglyphs! And then a host of other AI/game/narrative-research news. #archaeology #AI […]

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That painting, The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke, is deeply weird and even gruesome. A dive in my mid-month newsletter (free on top). https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-585-fairy-axes-and-jailbreaks #Art #folklore

My summer trip to French petroglyphs on top of my latest newsletter #archaeology

https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-58-valley-of-petroglyph-marvels?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A new post with an intro on simulation escape, a review of theories of consciousness, and then a roundup of the weird & esoteric (lots of folklore refs) and games/NLP links of the past 2 weeks […]

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My latest newsletter - I tried out the Perplexity Pages to make a page about superposition & quantum mechanics, with an artistic bent to it. Plus, a competitor tool from Stanford. Also, tons of book recs among other things. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-55-superpositions-on-story?r=…

My mid-month newsletter opens with a bit on Our Share of Night, the horror novel, and its folklore, before the paywalled extensive narrative, games, estoterica and weird part. #books #ai #games
https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-545-lizards-of-darkness?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium…