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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Here is the mid-month roundup of news. Lots of useful stuff and some fun weird news links. TITAA #68.5: Pink Moons Machine Bullshit - Collections Explorer - Marey - Creative Kimi - Doodle Land - Cat Attack - Dating Carnac - RAG Slides Lynn Cherny Jul 15 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   The Mowing Devil, the first known Crop Circle (1678), Public Domain Review Lots of fun in this one, including a new video gen model that’s trained on licensed content, ➕ more navigable generative worlds and 3d splats, ➕ organic sim algorithms, ➕ the Odessa catacombs are not Safe Places, ➕ the backrooms in CSS, ➕ what happened to the lost colony and the “Croatoan” text, ➕ Carnac is really old, ➕ French bees are mad and ants are smarter than human groups, ➕ plastic painkillers, ➕ language of time, ➕ the Cat attack on LLMs, ➕ machine bullshit metrics, ➕ more LLM psychology, ➕ Kimi K2 wipes up creative writing benches, ➕ 104 anonymous slides of games with museums and artworks, ➕ a digital collections explorer tool open sourced, ➕ recent useful model releases, ➕ more RAG tutorial/slides and embeddings code releases, ➕topic models, ➕ tutorials, ➕ comparing Mac speech rec apps, ➕ and more. Table of Contents: AI Creativity (Video, 3D & Three.js) Web Misc, Fun, Procgen, Arty Weird News (Art, Archaeology & Folklore, Science, AI/LLMs) Narrative & Story Telling & Games NLP/Data Science/Infovis A Poem... Subscribe to Things I Think Are Awesome to unlock the rest. Become a paying subscriber of Things I Think Are Awesome to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: Mid-month full post with news links, plus a weirdness & esoterica section, for the very latest breaking creative tech news. End of the month full post, plus a separate detailed post on the books/tv/games recs. Great karma and my gratitude (because I take off work to do this).   Like Comment Restack   © 2025 Lynn Cherny 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe