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.
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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...
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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.)
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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)
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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...
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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...
I don’t think I can wait two more weeks for my weird news newsletter to gawk at the agents chatting on www.moltbook.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
I don’t think I can wait two more weeks for my weird news newsletter to gawk at the agents chatting on www.moltbook.com
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Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
Scientists let AI loose on Hubble’s archives
It found 800 previously undiscovered ‘cosmic anomalies.’
buff.ly
January 28, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
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Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵
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Big day in open source AI!!
✨ DeepSeek released OCR2 💥
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
✨ Kimi K2.5 just landed 🔥
huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...
With the Chinese Spring Festival 3 weeks away,
what’s coming next?👀
✨ DeepSeek released OCR2 💥
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
✨ Kimi K2.5 just landed 🔥
huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...
With the Chinese Spring Festival 3 weeks away,
what’s coming next?👀
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Big day in open source AI!!
✨ DeepSeek released OCR2 💥
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
✨ Kimi K2.5 just landed 🔥
huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...
With the Chinese Spring Festival 3 weeks away,
what’s coming next?👀
✨ DeepSeek released OCR2 💥
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
✨ Kimi K2.5 just landed 🔥
huggingface.co/moonshotai/K...
With the Chinese Spring Festival 3 weeks away,
what’s coming next?👀
Excellent post from @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the Fantastic Futures 2025 conf they hosted, on museums & libs use of AI www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Fantastic Futures 2025: highlights and resources
Hundreds of information professionals gathered in the British Library’s Knowledge Centre to share the state of the art in AI research for cultural heritage.
www.bl.uk
January 26, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Excellent post from @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the Fantastic Futures 2025 conf they hosted, on museums & libs use of AI www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Reposted by Lynn Cherny
Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026
Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026
I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026
I’m a little weirded out by Claude saying “Yeah” to me.
January 25, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I’m a little weirded out by Claude saying “Yeah” to me.
An interview with @mattmuir.bsky.social about his newsletter Web Curios (webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-23...) which I enjoy the hell out of; he is also nice enough to mention mine. 🤷♀️ I admire the "i have no stats and I don't care" which is harder if you are on a platform that sticks them in your face.
Webcurios 23/01/26 – webcurios
webcurios.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 1:54 PM
An interview with @mattmuir.bsky.social about his newsletter Web Curios (webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-23...) which I enjoy the hell out of; he is also nice enough to mention mine. 🤷♀️ I admire the "i have no stats and I don't care" which is harder if you are on a platform that sticks them in your face.