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TITAA #66.5: Haint Blue & Boo Hags

Gullah-Geechee - Werewolf Collector - Bayeux Dick Count - AI Dead Folk - Story2Game - Tools

Lynn Cherny

May 16

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Gullah fanner basket by Lynette Youson, 2002. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole, 2011. (via Lapham’s Quarterly)

It is the mid-month issue with the fun weird & esoteric links part. Along with the other usual suspects!

AI creativity (briefly)
Misc Web & Arty
Weird & Esoteric (Art, Science, Folkore & Archaeology, AI Weirdness)
Games Links
Narrative Research/Related
Data Science/NLP/Tools
A Poem

What we’ve got in this issue, a few items: more open source video models and tools, 1971, a haunted game cartridge, lost hikers, Getty’s new art provenance database, Planet 9, the Gullah-Geechee ghost stories, AI of dead people, Claude lets you win at Tic Tac Toe if you had a bad day, an AI vending machine in a doom spiral, good game conferences and narrative proceedings, Victor Hugo’s castle art, some data sciency AI tools and tutorials of recent interest… ...

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