Getting an hour of vibe coding - geez, Claude on Composer One's code: "the cleanup logic is complex and has a race condition, let me simplify." You really can't settle for less than excellent.

Augh, end of year quarterly accounting taking days... really cutting into my vibe coding holiday plans :(

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

An absolute must read if you’re working on AI and storytelling. @tuhinchakr.bsky.social is doing important work and blowing up many common assumptions about generated writing, while coming from a principled POV.

The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026! eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

Herdling (the game) is really beatiful, has lots of cave paintings and shrines in the woods— strong rec. store.steampowered.com/app/3047750/...

Oh wow, for some of you this will be Christmas come early - 3d visualisation of planes in the skies over any airport in the world RIGHT NOW. Don't look at how close they all get to each other, whatever you do: objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html (via @puntofisso.bsky.social's excellent newsletter)

Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading

A reminder of the fabulous Tales of the Weird book series from British Library, with 3 excellent Christmas/Solstice ghost story collections, on top of the latest newsletter (that also includes a hefty weird section) arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-735-...

Wake Up Dead Man was solid fun. 👍

this site is adorable - a bunch of historical document vibe coded apps, some of which are funny and some of which are really useful. advent-calendar.humanities.tools

We return in 2026! Join us in Leiden NL 15–19 June for a week of cutting-edge research & insights. We’re partnering with leading studios like Activision, @ccpgames.com, Google DeepMind, @microsoft.com @riotgames.com @unity.com, Krafton, Wargaming, Icoinic, @sonyai.bsky.social & Ludomotion and more!

@dmimno.bsky.social the maps paper is great -- but where is the dataset??

Proceedings for the Computational Humanities Review conf #chr2025 happening now in Luxembourg (I am not at it and am sad): anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration

The call for proposals is posted for the Electronic Literature Organization 2026 conference. It will be hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world. (Submissions will open soon!) projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/cfp....

I saw @shomir.bsky.social's alignment chart of novels he's read about academia and that was extremely fun so here is mine

Fantastic new wildflower plates and descriptions shared as a benchmark task from Smithsonian folks - github.com/Smithsonian/... with comparison of Gemini VLM models and Qwen models on it #ff2025

Interesting game experiment in Bristol Museum — making egyptian god characters into personalities with quests for visitors to solve, “CultureQuest”.

comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025

Mind blown by fashion recreation of arctic cultural clothing in 3d using PS, Illustrator, and Clo3d by this Smithsonian work #ff2025

@tedunderwood.com huh - work at Northwestern Library

Fascinating visual issues posed by Hawaiian tv chiron OCR/VLM text extraction 😀 #ff2025

Fantastically interesting use of many many vlm models to augment metadata of artworks at Harvard Art Museum - Jeff Steward pointing out that AI descriptions may extend curator views / eyes to make art more searchable and accessible #ff2025

@kmcdono.bsky.social Well, Gemini Pro 3 can do org charts... it was slow, though :)

TIL allmaps.org - lots of great svg annotations on historical maps, and help with labeling

lol - point from @danielvanstrien.bsky.social at HF that we need to be clear about open ai with a space vs without when talking about ai. #ff2025

for those who attended the IIIF workshop yesterday by @iiif.bsky.social this might be a useful tool to try github.com/kingsdigital... #ff2025 - developed by @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social

Wow, folks at the Bodleian using Gemini, NotebookLM, ChatGPT (openai research funding!), CoPilot… #ff2025

Tiny bit alarmed by the keynote talk at this week’s conference starting with the anti Lynn slide which got a lot of approval 😬 😆

I made an emergency run to the giant Waterstones in Piccadilly for this - Georges Perec #perec #poetry

I started reading _George Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces_ — and it’s not working out right, I am highlighting or bookmarking every page.

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

The country that produced the novels of Georges Perec has fallen to this level

Weekend post has animating sprites and Midjourney styles, web arty proc gen and fun ( @samplereality.bsky.social's great 1 Million Random Acts, for instance), game article links, some narrative AI papers (new creative writing bench, couple on style), infovis/ds. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-73-a...

Huh. new great looking book, Surrealism and the Tarot, from Fulgur Press! www.fulgur.co.uk/books/surrea... cc @alphachar.bsky.social

In stressy times I find myself reading a lot more horror, & I always find myself comforted there. My spirits can be brightened by just one short story of Ligotti or Aickman. This year I’ve read some really great books by new-to-me horror writers, so if you’re in the mood for a chilly hug, read on…

Absolutely considering this 😜

If anyone I know here is going to the #ff2025 conf at the British Lib this week, it would be great to connect there! Er, and anyone else in London who wants to grab a coffee or drink, feel free to ping me :)

We all make society, every day. If we do so simply by solving problems using technology, we will never get anywhere as humanity. Universities are the ground zero of cultural development. And they can do that very cheaply while also supplying the current system with a workforce.

Lol omg - Eiffel Tower Llama, a new open version of Golden Gate Claude but Parisian. SAEs! huggingface.co/spaces/dloua...

Great looking edu-ish 80 days-ish gone, love the idea.

Vive la France, I was given a 10 year visa today. I am so damned happy (and also grateful). 🇫🇷🍾🍷🧀

Tencent's HunyuanOCR An expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan's native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model "supposed to" achieve SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs.

Online tickets are now available for the Fantastic Futures 2025 conference! #FF2025 is the annual conference of the AI4LAM community, jam-packed with inspiration and practical lessons for AI in GLAMs. Sign up to watch all talks on Thurs and Fri Dec 4 - 5 for free! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

@kissane.myatproto.social buckwheat chestnut flour gf sourdough, outstanding - honestly every recipe so far www.amazon.com/Art-Gluten-F...

I just tried Midhjourney's new style "training" (really steering) to create a horrifying folk horror photos effect, and it is super creepy.

#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.

I just spent an unreasonable amount of time turning 270k+ Steam reviews into an NLP playground. If you’re into NLP, transformers, or real-world text messiness, the full case study is here: buthonestly.io/programming/... #nlp #machinelearning #sentimentanalysis #emotionanalysis

The online edition of @hardmaru.bsky.social new book on neuroevolution, Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design neuroevolutionbook.com