TITAA #66.5: Haint Blue & Boo Hags

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

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!

Table of Contents

• 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…