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Max Kreminski
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sh1m.bsky.social
deadline extended to feb 20!! :-)
sh1m.bsky.social shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 21d
submit to our workshop so we can yap about creativity support & activity traces & understanding creative communities + processes + people better, together

herding-cats-ws.github.io
February 12, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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everest.bsky.social
I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time

Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...
Desire Paths for Wikipedia
An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.
greasyfork.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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sh1m.bsky.social
submit to our workshop so we can yap about creativity support & activity traces & understanding creative communities + processes + people better, together

herding-cats-ws.github.io
January 22, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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spencer.place
every time i moved my cursor in my browser today
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings

a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember

last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025!

github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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cscheid.net
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads: Abstract A " 'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings. This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one. CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind. Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming ACM Reference Format: Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3759429.3762631 1 A Way of Knowing From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves. I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I? What kind of person? What kind of mind?
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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unormal.bsky.social
when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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ellaguro.bsky.social
Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
Experimental Games Showcase
SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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xenoscope.bsky.social
A anti-correcting spellcheck? Work in progress

#vispo #autocorrect #spellcheck #texteditors
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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kevinbaker.bsky.social
One thing I learned about myself while doing labor organizing is that my own political pessimism was less an expression of "the pessimism of the intellect" and more a highly-refined fear of the vulnerability that comes with any kind of uncertain endeavor. A sophisticated form of cowardice.
August 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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hiddendoor.co
We’re launching early access 🔥today🔥!

Hidden Door is where roleplaying meets fanfic. Rise from the beyond to wreak vengeance in The Crow, go rivals-to-lovers in Pride & Prejudice, lean into after-dark vibes with Courtship & Crimson, and so many more!
Blog | Introducing Early Access · Hidden Door
We love stories! Books, movies, TV shows, comics, games: we love them all. But the thing about them is, well, they end—and when it’s over, it’s over. But what if you want to hold onto the magical feeling of that world? That experience of reliving the
www.hiddendoor.co
August 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
when thinking about how we relate to famous works i like to consider the distinction between “monument” and “document”. different scholars use these terms in different ways & my usage is a little idiosyncratic, but imo it’s important to the understanding of art as conversation
ponder.ooo ponder @ponder.ooo · Aug 8
the guy tossing a copy of nighthawks into an ai model is more genuinely engaging with it as art than the people dunking on him for that
August 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
the idea, by the way, was that AI adoption sometimes functions as a kind of “tracer dye”: it can reveal the places in institutions and structures where things have already broken down and a bad “fix” is being used for an actual problem it can’t solve but that still needs to be fixed
August 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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mutual-a.bsky.social
the impetus for me writing this was hanging out with people with technical backgrounds who had leftist politics and noticing that they to a person had a sense of agency that was absent across the broader left and then trying to put into words why people felt this way
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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evakhoury.bsky.social
It’s a kind of perverse optimism in me that says this but if there’s anything I’ve learned from this administration it’s that anyone who says that radical change isn’t possible was wrong. Things do change and we can change things. We could change things again and the future can be different. Yk…
July 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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eblong.com
I’ve been working on a bot to let people group-play IF games in a Discord channel.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/07/disc...

It’s currently running on the IFTF Discord (see invite link at narrascope.org/contact/%E2%... ).
Discoggin: an IF bot for Discord
Here's a new toy: a Discord bot that plays IF games. Say you've got a group of people who want to play an IF game together. You'd log into the IFTF Discord and go to the #zarfbot-9000 channel. (That's...
blog.zarfhome.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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dame.is
PhD stands for “posting here daily”
June 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
imo good crit played a huge role in "games" becoming a more serious art form, community of practice, w/e in the 2010s. & the comparative weakness of "games" today is due in no small part to organized right-wing harassment + apathy from the Games Industry managing to stamp this criticism out
ellaguro.bsky.social Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · Jun 26
i get hot and steamy about critical videogame discourse because i watched the space i was a part of mostly fall apart due to harassment, broad dismissal and infighting and end up on the far fringes, where most people either don't know they existed or just act like they never did
June 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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analog-ashley.bsky.social
Maybe you've seen some chatter about the impact of LLMs on our brains.

Well, when it comes to brains and learning, @grimalkina.bsky.social and I have some thoughts.

Our latest episode episode is live and yes, a little spicy. 🔥

www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
🧶 Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces

we introduce a new way to analyze user activity logs from creativity support tools…

…& illuminate patterns of creative divergence, convergence, idea development, & homogenization at scale

arxiv.org/abs/2502.04599
Teaser figure (Figure 1) from the linked paper. Caption: "Fuzzy linkography allows for the rapid translation of user activity logs from digital creativity support tools (and other traces of creative activity) into rough graphical summaries, suitable for visual and quantitative inspection by researchers." On the left, a little sketchy person labeled "CST user" sits at a laptop and types in an idea to be rendered as an image. From their interactions, we derive a "creative activity trace" listing off all the ideas they've suggested as bullet points: "cat", "pink cat", "angry cat", and so on, all the way down to "pink cat with glasses". This trace passes through a process labeled "fuzzy linkography" (depicted here as a fuzzy purple cloud with a cat face and tail), and produces a graph labeled as a "fuzzy linkograph" that shows semantic and temporal relationships between user-suggested ideas. Another little sketchy person, labeled "researcher", peers at the fuzzy linkograph through a magnifying glass and thinks about the patterns they see. Sketches by @cheesetalk.bsky.social!
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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sh1m.bsky.social
imho: the long-term work of "AI" isn't, "finding ways to conjure knowledge & art from thin air"
it is "finding effective, scalable ways to use + usefully synthesize from, existing knowledge resources"
Its our responsibility, and to our benefit, to invest in protecting & honoring those resources.
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
cannot emphasize enough how much we are going to lose in length and quality of human life all across the globe because of this. infuriating and shameful.
alexr.bsky.social Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · Jun 4
Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.
June 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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mayasen.bsky.social
one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it
June 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
the position consistent with aaron swartz's published writings is quite clearly "training is fair use but we should do guerrilla open access on closed model weights". this seems likely to upset every major faction but i don't think it's incorrect
June 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
maxkreminski.bsky.social
one really great part of this website is the list of DOGE affiliates. hopefully disrupts the meme that they're a bunch of apolitical-but-enthusiastic young engineers who don't know any better – these people clearly know full well what they signed on to do & we need to make it follow them forever
jacobharr.is Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · May 30
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data

It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info

Enjoy!
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
dogetrack.info
May 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM