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

I wrote about the 3d generated World Labs splats in my latest, along with the other fun news of the past 2 weeks (video test, reve image editing, games AI, narrative, data science tools) https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-71-splats-and-fat-cats

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

My latest end-of-month newsletter tests out the new smart gemini nano-banana image gen model, along with the other usual video, 3d, narrative & games research and links, etc. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-70-cottage-door-generation

My latest nl covers Braitenberg's odd little book on vehicle agents (from 1986), a classic. Also the latest AI news, narrative research, games with poetry, and info extraction frameworks. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-69-braitenberg-vehicle-agents

A couple from the Creativity & Narrative section of my newsletter - Creative Preference Optimization (arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442) and Creative Thought Embeddings: A Framework for Instilling Creativity in Large language Models ( […]

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

What was RadiantAI? In my latest newsletter: What was Radiant AI, anyway? “A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy.” Radiant AI (Bethesda) was an umbrella term for a bunch of AI features, especially a greatly expanded "AI package" system that gave NPCs […]

Newsletter post about the discovery and resurrection of a Merlin manuscript, which includes interesting fashion commentary. Done at Cambridge Univ Libs. #dh https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-675-merlin-the-shape-shifter?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

And evidently Aby Warburg of the Warburg Institute thought he was a werewolf https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/ which is kept a bit on the low down at the actual institute IMO ...

Short link thread from my latest newsletter... the Gullah-Geechee folks of the waterways of the US southeast, with their folklore about ghosts, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/haunting-drums-and-shadows and song samples from the Smithsonian Folkways […]

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

Everyone should be outside including me, but I just pushed go on a new (free) newsletter with a lot of researchy/tool things on 3d gen, games and game AI, narrative research (lots) and data science small models/doc processing/classifiers etc. TOC on top […]

I wrote up the Tarot Exhibition at the Warburg Institute and Calvino's surprise spot in it in my latest newsletter (free part). https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-655-motel-of-crossed-destinies?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

My latest post on the AI releases of the past 2 weeks--4o's image claims, vibejam games, games news, creative writing benchmark shifts, tools of use. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-65-ai-bakeoff-hits-a-spaceship?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

My latest end of month roundup of creative AI, games news, and data science links -- in this one, there is a bunch of Claude 3.7 doing three.js stuff for people. Plus some interactive fiction stuff […]

Beautiful public UFO data via @jonkeegan in my mid-month newsletter intro article, with an AI and weird twist. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-635-deep-data-on-ufos

Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Newsletter post with some fun moon visualization stuff, and then the usual news links: 3d, video, narrative research, games, and more. https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-63-moon-gathering?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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/

Ugh, finding it hard to focus on work. January is always tough but after yesterday-?

Fairy summonings (and forgery) in my latest newsletter! A bunch of folkloric tastiness. https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-625-fairies-and-doom #folklore

My December post (no paywall) rounds up the last 2 weeks of intense AI releases (on the the creative and NLP and narrative-related sides) #nlp https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-62-december-ai-madness

hey @arnicas.bsky.social followed your slides from the creative narrative workshop to several of your repos & projects, enjoying immensely. was looking at this https://github.com/arnicas/nanogenmo2023-google-travel/tree/main and started thinking about adapting it but using materials from the […]

A bit on the Creative Narrative Workshop I ran a week ago, and links to slides, in my mid-month newsletter https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-615-narrative-time-is-hard?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

My newsletter reviews the surrealism exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, from the angles I'm veyr interested in (proc gen, occultism). https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-61-surrealism-alice-and-the?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Drop #562 (2024-11-26): Typography Tuesday Today's Drop features The Type Archive, established in 1992, closed in 2022 due to financial issues but has been digitized by the Science Museum Group. We also take a quick peek at Damien Guard's 2023 Advent of Fonts and introduce the free brush-style […]

Conference: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images When: May 8–10, 2025 Where: Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice Submission deadline: Jan 5, 2025 Explore the intersection of #ai, #ethics, and #aesthetics. Topics include authorship, creativity, and the impact of AI-generated images […]

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

I am organize a small workshop on Creative Narrative in Copenhagen on Dec 7, interdisciplinary with #dh folks studying narrative and game folks. We have a few slots - come? https://ghostweather.com/workshops/narr_workshop.html #Games #narrative

I am organize a small workshop on Creative Narrative in Copenhagen on Dec 7, interdisciplinary with #dh folks studying narrative and game folks. We have a few slots - come? https://ghostweather.com/workshops/narr_workshop.html #Games #narrative

Tiny thread about latest post: I recapped some highlights of the King's College AI&Games day I attended last weekend, specifically stuff from Kate Compton and Mike Cook on creative systems --https://arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-60-creative-gum-and-rag

Have I peevishly tooted yet that Pacific Drive is fun but the not being able to save inside a mission makes me not want to play more? Really annoying rework.

Happy "your photos are about to be deleted on flickr" cleanup days to all :(

@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

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

Drop #540 (2024-10-04): Friday Fun! Today's Drop features three text- or terminal-based games: CortexForge, a challenging puzzle game; AI Dungeon 2, an AI-driven text adventure offering interactive storytelling; and Ninvaders, a command-line version of Space Invaders […]

looked up how to do something in sheets and heard myself whisper “godam that is fucked up”

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 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

I've had a headache (and no energy) for like 2 weeks now. Is it just the new norm, or what

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

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

Full pdf of ACL 2024 proceedings https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.0.pdf #nlp

More on hardware — i’m impressed by the ease of playing video on the steam deck. sitting in a hotel room, really enjoying it. best with a dock or adapter but they are cheap.