Fishwick Papers: The "Dramatic Reading" Edition

Scene One - Night, Apartment Interior.JIM sits, on a bed, laptop on top of his lap. He writes, feverishly, with purpose. He looks down the barrel of the keyboard.JIM: Good evening. I normally write these at work before I leave, but this evening, something else was to happen. I had been working on the short list for the video game exhibition I'm working on, feeling it approach completion, when a conversation with a colleague drew into sharp relief that my list of games wasn't yet quite good enough, wasn't yet quite focused enough. A half-hour or so of fine-tuning made it better - it's not enough to know your intention of presentation, one has to consider the reception of the presentation. The finer details of this negotiation will be published elsewhere in due course, but suffice to say the rearrangement of my list occupied the back half of my to the extent that it drove my beloved Fishwick Papers from my mind.JIM adjusts his posture.JIM: (continuing) So now, dear reader, please enjoy the links which I have enjoyed this week.

What's AI up to?

• An AI invents its own visual language

• The BBC is experimenting with in-article chatbots

• Found sounds sorted by AI to make a drum machine

How do we look?

• America's love of Chinese fashion, but not Chinese-American people

• Since when did 'geek' become an ethnicity online? 

• Legally Black reimagines iconic movie posters

Write about other people's work? 

• An awesome analysis of Ali Wong's stand up

• The story behind the original Mad Max

• Steamed Hams but it's a video essay

What happened to the miscellaneous pile?

• Disney's plans to usurp Netflix's throne

• So You Want To Date A New York Museum

• Hot New Game: Corner of the Club Simulator

• An incredible sequence of Japanese advertisements

R.I.P. Vine of the Week

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SCENE TWO: Later that same nightJIM is now lying on the bed, ergonomics be damned.JIM: And thus concludes this week of linkages. Thank you for your consideration, and please do tell your friends about this here service if it is of use and enjoyment to you. Adieu!JIM closes the laptop.Curtains.