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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 2d

After a successful pilot, Ireland is permanently establishing a universal basic income scheme for artists, where participants are paid €325 per week. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 2d

Shintaro Sakai, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Akira Matsui: Quantifying Gender Stereotypes in Japan between 1900 and 1999 with Word Embeddings https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03905 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03905 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.03905

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 6d

super short :)

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 6d

i'm bummed you didn't like the Fukuda project - tbh, I think I like it more having watched the curator talk about it (which my boss had us do) youtu.be/TVXWcGXUMMk

Moving paintings × Fukuda Art Museum | Google Arts & Culture

YouTube video by Google Arts & Culture

youtu.be

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 7d

yeah…. only the center holds.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 7d

thanks :)

Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 7d

A fly-thru of my models, tools in the post.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 7d

I tested out the new World Labs splat maker with some Piranesi-inspired prompts, and then hooked the 3d models together. It was a bunch of work. :) And more news in the end of the month (no paywall) nl, open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

TITAA #71: Splats and Fat Cats

World Labs splats - Video Cats - Distributed Heroines - Among AIs - Historical Type

open.substack.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 7d

I tested out the new World Labs splat maker with some Piranesi-inspired prompts, and then hooked the 3d models together. It was a bunch of work. :) And more news in the end of the month (no paywall) nl, open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...

TITAA #71: Splats and Fat Cats

World Labs splats - Video Cats - Distributed Heroines - Among AIs - Historical Type

open.substack.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 9d

Oops delivery guy came -https://store.steampowered.com/app/2498570/Canvas_of_Kings/

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 9d

Omg this map making tool on Steam - I teared up, it looks so great

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Cameron @cameron.pfiffer.org · 9d

Anthropics Claude 4.5 release is pretty wild.

- Amazing model quality improvements, better than Opus
- Memory tools
- Massive alignment gains
- Claude Agents SDK

Crazy work from them, goddamn

www.anthropic.com/news/claude...

Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world, strongest model for building complex agents, and best model at using computers.

www.anthropic.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10d

I remember Scholastic Books and book fairs in elementary school. my favorite thing.

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Rob's Game Shack @robsgameshack.bsky.social · 10d

#PlayTheDemo — The Abbess Garden — is a cozy historical gardening game from MD Studio, set in 17th-century France at Port-Royal-des-Champs.… — https://f.mtr.cool/jfrpyyfdnh #Cozy #Narrative #Steam #IndieGame #Gaming

The Abbess Garden – Cozy Historical Gardening Game with Romance & Intrigue

The Abbess Garden is a cozy gardening game set in 17th-century France, blending plant care with queer romance, espionage, and court intrigue.

f.mtr.cool

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 10d

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...

www.linkedin.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10d

oh fascinating!

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 10d

til “meliorism”

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11d

drink every time a popular piece about best sellers (or movies) mentions Joseph Campbell ("Its basic steps align precisely with Joseph Campbell's idea of the "hero's journey,")

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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 14d

800 Years of English Handwriting | Discussion

800 Years of English Handwriting - Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

artsandculture.google.com

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 14d

lucky :)

Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 14d

Huh, super exhibition in Basel on ghosts - might require a trip www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Kindred spirits: the exhibition exploring our endless fascination with ghosts

Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel charts how spooks and ghouls in artworks reflect shifting anxieties about everything from technology to sex

www.theguardian.com

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available!

I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 15d

Cultural history in games, Leiden.

VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 15d

The Interactive Pasts Conference 4 is almost upon us! One week left for registrations, sign up (it's free!) before October 1st! Please register here: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 16d

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Roguelike Celebration - Event 2025

www.roguelike.club

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 16d

Registered! Yay!

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