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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 18h

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

eliterature.github.io

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 1d

lol and argh at the same time 😜

PlayerState @playerstate.bsky.social · 1d

Ledgerbound: A narrative/relationship/tactical game where you play as an insurance adjuster who replays battles to prove that the heroes who died perished due to their ineptitude so that you can deny the claims.

store.steampowered.com/app/3315060/...

Ledgerbound on Steam

The world may end, but more importantly: your job is on the line. Step onto the battlefield, befriend (and fall in love with) a ragtag crew of heroes, and go head-to-head against an immortal foe to pr...

store.steampowered.com

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.

💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!

🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!

exploropleth.github.io

Screenshot of a new, open source, web-based, geospatial visualization tool, Exploropleth, that lets users interact with a catalog of established data binning methods, and subsequently compare, customize, and export custom maps. The screenshot shows small multiples of 16 choropleth maps each showing Life Expectancy data for US counties, but using distinct data binning methods (e.g., natural breaks, standard deviation, pretty breaks, and so on).

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 1d

🌟 We’re hiring! EPFL’s School of Computer & Communication Sciences (IC) is recruiting tenure-track faculty in Learning Sciences & EdTech — AI, AR/VR, learning analytics & more. Apply now! Eval. begins Nov 1, 2025 👉  www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

Faculty Positions in Computer & Communication Sciences – Learning Sciences

The School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in learning sciences and educational technologies, with a focus on computational ...

www.epfl.ch

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 2d

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

arxiv.org

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 3d

it sure does linger, huh. thanks.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 3d

thanks, that's useful. I have been binging tv like you can't imagine... I went thru all of Blue Lights (I know, cops in Belfast, but... it's good) so fast.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 3d

I've had covid for the past few days (augh), and my weird dreams are almost all tech-related: first night had malevolent JSON, with weird nesting and recursion; last night, Claude Cars with little Anthropic logo remotes. Why can't my brain do better, cmon.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 4d

Nice semantic search on nat gallery of art - didn’t expect “occult manuscripts” to work so well. From Mixedbread. github.com/mixedbread-a...

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 4d

So it’s a rec for both eh

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 4d

who was hiring for this?

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 12d

super short :)

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 13d

yeah…. only the center holds.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 13d

thanks :)

Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 13d

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 · 15d

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

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Cameron @cameron.pfiffer.org · 15d

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 · 16d

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

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