Lynn Cherny
@arnicas.bsky.social
Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
In my french conversation class last night we covered “sans doute” which 🤪
February 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
In my french conversation class last night we covered “sans doute” which 🤪
finally a claw agent I want to play with github.com/brendanhogan...
GitHub - brendanhogan/hermitclaw
Contribute to brendanhogan/hermitclaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 AM
finally a claw agent I want to play with github.com/brendanhogan...
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It still needs a few UI tweaks (some of the styles are hard to read) but here's MURDER, IT WROTE
mostlymaths.net/murder-it-wr...
Close to infinite murder-style puzzles via a constraint solver. Except for some UI glitches (some fonts have a wrong color in some case) it works on phone and desktop
mostlymaths.net/murder-it-wr...
Close to infinite murder-style puzzles via a constraint solver. Except for some UI glitches (some fonts have a wrong color in some case) it works on phone and desktop
Murder, it wrote
mostlymaths.net
February 16, 2026 at 11:05 AM
It still needs a few UI tweaks (some of the styles are hard to read) but here's MURDER, IT WROTE
mostlymaths.net/murder-it-wr...
Close to infinite murder-style puzzles via a constraint solver. Except for some UI glitches (some fonts have a wrong color in some case) it works on phone and desktop
mostlymaths.net/murder-it-wr...
Close to infinite murder-style puzzles via a constraint solver. Except for some UI glitches (some fonts have a wrong color in some case) it works on phone and desktop
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
I created a MCP tool "toolman" which acts as a gateway for other MCP tools
It gives the model the power to activate tools to see their description and signature, or deactivate them to save context window space
github.com/roby2358/mcp...
It gives the model the power to activate tools to see their description and signature, or deactivate them to save context window space
github.com/roby2358/mcp...
mcp-wrappers/toolman at main · roby2358/mcp-wrappers
Various light wrappers for MCP. Contribute to roby2358/mcp-wrappers development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I created a MCP tool "toolman" which acts as a gateway for other MCP tools
It gives the model the power to activate tools to see their description and signature, or deactivate them to save context window space
github.com/roby2358/mcp...
It gives the model the power to activate tools to see their description and signature, or deactivate them to save context window space
github.com/roby2358/mcp...
darn it, saw this after sending the mid month weird news issue of the newsletter. primo material.
"It ain't no unicorn": These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters theconversation.com/it-aint-no-u...
‘It ain’t no unicorn’: meet the researchers who’ve interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters
In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.
theconversation.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
darn it, saw this after sending the mid month weird news issue of the newsletter. primo material.
Article on burnout in the guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Facing meltdown? Over 75% of people suffer from burnout - here’s what you need to know
Does it only affect weak people? Is work always the cause? Burnout myths, busted by the experts
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Article on burnout in the guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Not using Claude to write my newsletter, but made a skill to turn my db of links into html in groups for me to easily cut and paste before writing. It has opinions 😜 "The LLM/AI section is pretty heavy — you might want to split some of those out or move a few to Misc. Let me know what you think!"
February 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Not using Claude to write my newsletter, but made a skill to turn my db of links into html in groups for me to easily cut and paste before writing. It has opinions 😜 "The LLM/AI section is pretty heavy — you might want to split some of those out or move a few to Misc. Let me know what you think!"
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
Vector search using only Parquet and DataFusion – Xiangpeng’s blog
Just tune your existing stack
blog.xiangpeng.systems
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
We (in DDH at KCL) are pleased to announce that registration is now open for The Digital Conference 2026, which will take place from 23 to 26 June 2026 at Bush House, King’s College London.
Registration: estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Registration: estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
The Digital Conference 2026 | King's College London eStore
From the 23rd to 26th June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the ev
estore.kcl.ac.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
We (in DDH at KCL) are pleased to announce that registration is now open for The Digital Conference 2026, which will take place from 23 to 26 June 2026 at Bush House, King’s College London.
Registration: estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Registration: estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...
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For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself gizmodo.com/for-some-rea...
For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself
Someone who calls herself
gizmodo.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 AM
For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself gizmodo.com/for-some-rea...
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Open Data Practices of Art Museum on Wikidata (via wikipedia research newsletter) #glam #museums openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
Open Data Practices of Art Museums in Wikidata: A Compliance Assessment | Journal of Open Humanities Data
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Open Data Practices of Art Museum on Wikidata (via wikipedia research newsletter) #glam #museums openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
what happens if you ask codex to update your claude.md 🤔
Claude Code overview - Claude Code Docs
Learn about Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser to help you turn ideas into code faster than ever before.
claude.md
February 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
what happens if you ask codex to update your claude.md 🤔
A new creative writing style bench and leaderboard for LLMs surgehq.ai/blog/hemingw...
Hemingway-bench AI Writing Leaderboard
Stop rewarding slop. Hemingway-bench is an AI writing leaderboard that takes real-world writing tasks and puts them in front of master wordsmiths. Our goal: to push AI writing from two-second vibes to...
surgehq.ai
February 5, 2026 at 7:38 AM
A new creative writing style bench and leaderboard for LLMs surgehq.ai/blog/hemingw...
Ok, i might quibble about the results (it wasn't Deep Research) but this Gemini app report with a MAP (I LIVE FOR MAPS) on places for a getaway was above and beyond.
February 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Ok, i might quibble about the results (it wasn't Deep Research) but this Gemini app report with a MAP (I LIVE FOR MAPS) on places for a getaway was above and beyond.
God, Claude's ascii diagrams are insanely good.
February 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
God, Claude's ascii diagrams are insanely good.
First rec (I could see it coming) was Slow Gods, which I also rec'd as one of my fav recent sf reads... really, really good. (I added the others he lists to my todo list.)
I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop
February 2, 2026 at 3:39 PM
First rec (I could see it coming) was Slow Gods, which I also rec'd as one of my fav recent sf reads... really, really good. (I added the others he lists to my todo list.)
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Don't spend the day thinking about how seemingly everyone who runs the world is implicated in an increasingly-horrifying paedophile murder island conspiracy! Instead, enjoy the fact that someone's made Quake playable in-browser - this is ACE: mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/ (via @arnicas.bsky.social)
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
End of the month wacky AI news -- there were 3 "world models" released, the moltboot reddit and analysis, a lot of iso city web apps, a roleplay oriented model, a good article on plot that introduced Kishōkentetsu to me... a lot in here (no paywall). open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
TITAA #75: Universe Models
Genie 3 & World Models - Moltbook - Iso NYC & Coasters - M2 Her - Real-Time
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
End of the month wacky AI news -- there were 3 "world models" released, the moltboot reddit and analysis, a lot of iso city web apps, a roleplay oriented model, a good article on plot that introduced Kishōkentetsu to me... a lot in here (no paywall). open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
End of the month wacky AI news -- there were 3 "world models" released, the moltboot reddit and analysis, a lot of iso city web apps, a roleplay oriented model, a good article on plot that introduced Kishōkentetsu to me... a lot in here (no paywall). open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
TITAA #75: Universe Models
Genie 3 & World Models - Moltbook - Iso NYC & Coasters - M2 Her - Real-Time
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:41 PM
End of the month wacky AI news -- there were 3 "world models" released, the moltboot reddit and analysis, a lot of iso city web apps, a roleplay oriented model, a good article on plot that introduced Kishōkentetsu to me... a lot in here (no paywall). open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/...
french otters are way more popular than AI, who knew 😜
January 31, 2026 at 9:28 AM
french otters are way more popular than AI, who knew 😜
River otters are back in France! www.lemonde.fr/sciences/vid...
Vidéo. La loutre d’Europe est de retour dans les fleuves et les rivières de France
Vidéo - Ce petit mammifère semi-aquatique, qui avait presque disparu dans les années 1970, recolonise le territoire français. Y compris en zone urbaine, comme sur le Lez, le fleuve qui traverse Montpe...
www.lemonde.fr
January 31, 2026 at 8:25 AM
River otters are back in France! www.lemonde.fr/sciences/vid...
Hey, Blake's 7 is being rebooted! A good slashy take from Charlie Jane Anders reactormag.com/how-to-reboo...
How to Reboot Blake's 7 - Reactor
Evil empires, campy humor, morally complex politics... this show has it all!
reactormag.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Hey, Blake's 7 is being rebooted! A good slashy take from Charlie Jane Anders reactormag.com/how-to-reboo...
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
UKRI fellowship funding for exceptional AI researchers currently based outside of the UK - funding to relocate to the UK, establish a highly skilled team, undertake transformational AI research
More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Manchester Uni express interest form: forms.gle/ZUMJKCbxFJJG...
More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Manchester Uni express interest form: forms.gle/ZUMJKCbxFJJG...
Turing AI Global Fellowships
This fellowship funding opportunity is for exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers currently based outside of the UK.
www.ukri.org
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 AM
UKRI fellowship funding for exceptional AI researchers currently based outside of the UK - funding to relocate to the UK, establish a highly skilled team, undertake transformational AI research
More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Manchester Uni express interest form: forms.gle/ZUMJKCbxFJJG...
More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Manchester Uni express interest form: forms.gle/ZUMJKCbxFJJG...