@mia@hcommons.social'The Just Transition conference underscores a point often missed in the usual narrative on climate change: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people – 80-89% of them – want their governments to take stronger climate action' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisf…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion has rolled back decades of progress for women,
who now face a widening gender pay gap and narrowing employment protections.
In the process, discussions about women have become a third rail,
a toxic topic that is too politically charged to touch.
Companies, universities, law firms and cultural institutions are all expunging references to “women” and “gender,” even under the most benign circumstances…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBlock is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-job-cuts-the-ai-narrative/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOn the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.deHabe nichts hinzuzufügen - super zusammengefasst.
Lesen:
https://www.neuenarrative.de/magazin/ohne-milliardaere-wuerden-wir-alle-schon-laengst-viel-weniger-arbeiten
Hören:
@ellie@ellieayla.netIs there a version of the #Artemis II stream that only has Integrity & Ground coms & room noise, without any vapid imperial narrative?
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social“I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched.”
Update: he deleted the record of Trump (74 million) and Clinton (17 million), but it is still in the GitHub repo.
https://randallscott25-star.github.io/
@felwert@fedihum.orgIt’s not a full-fledged argument, but I was just thinking how a standard narrative is “early computers were so large they filled complete rooms, then came the personal computing revolution, and now we carry computers much more powerful in our pockets” when actually the way we use our mobile computers they are again input/output terminals of computers that fill entire rooms (or halls, really).
@UP8@mastodon.social🧢 The Narrative Crisis of Modern Baseball
#baseball …
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams' Blake Corum backs former college teammate J.J. McCarthy: 'He's still writing his story' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-blake-corum-backs-former-college-teammate-j-j-mccarthy-he-s-still-writing-his-story…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deFor those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2051523855286776034
@jackie@social.linux.pizzathe most meta thing about postmodernism is that the idea that postmodernists don't believe in objective reality has itself become a grand narrative
@bourgwick@heads.socialdead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. https://therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-for-deadheads-m…
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineHere's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are all sorts of complex practices and laws around churches, because "religious freedom" is really a minefield. It's not that the state cares about the law, but that the narrative of the US is deeply intertwined with the narrative of "religious freedom" and "escaping religious persecution." (I probably don't need to tell anyone that the people "escaping religious persecution" were some of the absolute worst humans on the planet who were not being persecuted but wanted to be free to persecute others... but I digress.)
It is not aligning with the law that matters, nor any other sort of legal justification for their authority. Authority comes from a complex memetic fabric of woven ideas. This fabric can be attacked, these threads can be pulled out, and eventually the fabric unravels and the authority collapses.
When central authority collapses, dual power institutions pick up the pieces. They replace the faltering authority. Today, as the US government is frantically burning itself down, corporations and churches are the two most developed institutions prepared to fill that void,
@Simone21@mastodon.social🇨🇭🇨🇭
"Bei der Schweizer EU-Debatte auf X fiel auf: Die Posts der Fake-Konten waren auf SVP-Linie. Sie adaptieren die Wortwahl der Partei und verwenden den Hashtag Unterwerfungsvertrag. So bezeichnet die SVP das EU-Paket. [...] Die Analysten schreiben, dass sie Strategien identifiziert hätten, «die zur Verstärkung negativer Narrative gegen das Abkommen eingesetzt wurden»."
🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
Wir brauchen seriöse Medien.
@servelan@newsie.social"The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that video evidence the outlet reviewed included "no indication ... that Allen fired his weapon, though authorities have charged him with discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.""
Startling possibility exposed as Trump press dinner shooting narrative cracks: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-press-2676832460/
@cdarwin@c.imWhen presidents go on television in wartime, they do not merely describe events.
They try to impose meaning on them.
On Wednesday night, President Trump presented the war with Iran as a stern but necessary undertaking that is nearing a favorable conclusion.
The threads of this victory narrative have been coming together since the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in late February.
Elements of it are undoubtedly true:
American and Israeli forces have b…
@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
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LTJ Bukem:
🎵 Flip the Narrative
#LTJBukem
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@asterisk@social.linux.pizzaCurrently trying to track down a Steam copy of Elevator to The Moon! I managed to find the Rift version but that obviously doesn't work without Oculus components.
I think the SteamVR version might be lost media at this point. All the links are dead and there are no torrents.
I managed to find the GearVR version but that doesn't work with Oculus Touch controllers (the button it asks you to use to open the menu for a tutorial doesn't exist, softlocking the game)
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialOh! This was mine! Two minutes of glory. Most perfect little teenage narrative in pop history
#ListeningClub
@cwilcke@bildung.socialSehr gute und sehr deprimierende Analyse des #guardian zum Stand des #Irankrieges und der Psyche von Donald #Trump
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialTagelanges Schweigen — dann ein Sündenbock. Merz verknüpft Gewalt gegen Frauen mit Migration, obwohl die Fakten eindeutig sind. Täter sind überwiegend Partner oder Ex-Partner aus dem direkten sozialen Umfeld. Kein Importproblem, sondern strukturelle männliche Gewalt. Wer das verleugnet, lenkt bewusst ab. Empörung als politisches Kalkül. Rechte Narrative werden so normalisiert — Schritt für Schritt. - Lorenzos Welt
@sherold@mastodon.onlineThe way Dodford pulls off a narrative arc for a half-hour-long biopic almost entirely out of quotes and clips never ceases to amaze me.
The Vanishing of Ryan Gosling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12GADjataDQ
@smashtie@mas.to @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic's $60B in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/anthropic-ai-openai-trump
@relcfp@mastodon.socialOpening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInsideSD, a site run by city government, dominates Google's AI-powered search results about San Diego, making government views the only ones most will see (Claire Trageser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026
@benb@osintua.euRussian TV channel NTV admits it underestimated Zelensky and Ukraine as Kremlin narrative shifts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/russian-tv-channel-ntv-admits.html
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[4/5]:
- Retrieving Climate Change Disinformation by Narrative
Upravitelev, Solopova, Jakob, Sahitaj, M\"oller, Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22015 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283633674519408
- PaperVoyager : Building Interactive Web with Visual Language Models
Dasen Dai, Biao Wu, Meng Fang, Wenhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22999 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116289015432093128
- Continual Robot Skill and Task Learning via Dialogue
Weiwei Gu, Suresh Kondepudi, Anmol Gupta, Lixiao Huang, Nakul Gopalan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03166 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/113089412115632702
- Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vectors for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
Zara Siddique, Irtaza Khalid, Liam D. Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114136994263573386
- SkillFlow: Scalable and Efficient Agent Skill Retrieval System
Fangzhou Li, Pagkratios Tagkopoulos, Ilias Tagkopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06188 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/114306773220502860
- Large Language Models for Computer-Aided Design: A Survey
Licheng Zhang, Bach Le, Naveed Akhtar, Siew-Kei Lam, Tuan Ngo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08137 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114504972217393639
- Structured Agent Distillation for Large Language Model
Liu, Kong, Dong, Yang, Li, Tang, Yuan, Niu, Zhang, Zhao, Lin, Huang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13820 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114544636506163783
- VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction
Fan, Zhang, Li, Zhang, Chen, Hu, Wang, Qu, Zhou, Wang, Yan, Xu, Theiss, Chen, Li, Tu, Wang, Ranjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20279 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114578817567171199
- Learning to Diagnose Privately: DP-Powered LLMs for Radiology Report Classification
Bhattacharjee, Tian, Rubin, Lo, Merchant, Hanson, Gounley, Tandon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114635189706505648
- L-MARS: Legal Multi-Agent Workflow with Orchestrated Reasoning and Agentic Search
Ziqi Wang, Boqin Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115140304787881576
- Your Models Have Thought Enough: Training Large Reasoning Models to Stop Overthinking
Han, Huang, Liao, Jiang, Lu, Zhao, Wang, Zhou, Jiang, Liang, Zhou, Sun, Yu, Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115293169353788311
- Person-Centric Annotations of LAION-400M: Auditing Bias and Its Transfer to Models
Leander Girrbach, Stephan Alaniz, Genevieve Smith, Trevor Darrell, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03721 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115332690912652473
- Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
Zhang, Hu, Upasani, Ma, Hong, Kamanuru, Rainton, Wu, Ji, Li, Thakker, Zou, Olukotun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115332999596603375
- Mitigating Premature Exploitation in Particle-based Monte Carlo for Inference-Time Scaling
Giannone, Xu, Nayak, Awhad, Sudalairaj, Xu, Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05825 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115338159696513898
- Complete asymptotic type-token relationship for growing complex systems with inverse power-law co...
Pablo Rosillo-Rodes, Laurent H\'ebert-Dufresne, Peter Sheridan Dodds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02069 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicssocph_bot/115496283627867809
- ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
Sandeep Routray, Hengkai Pan, Unnat Jain, Shikhar Bahl, Deepak Pathak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07732 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/115535941444003568
- AISAC: An Integrated multi-agent System for Transparent, Retrieval-Grounded Scientific Assistance
Chandrachur Bhattacharya, Sibendu Som
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14043
- VideoARM: Agentic Reasoning over Hierarchical Memory for Long-Form Video Understanding
Yufei Yin, Qianke Meng, Minghao Chen, Jiajun Ding, Zhenwei Shao, Zhou Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12360 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115729238732682644
- RadImageNet-VQA: A Large-Scale CT and MRI Dataset for Radiologic Visual Question Answering
L\'eo Butsanets, Charles Corbi\`ere, Julien Khlaut, Pierre Manceron, Corentin Dancette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17396 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762705911757243
- Measuring all the noises of LLM Evals
Sida Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21326 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115779597137785637
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@gwire@mastodon.social> “We’re over here just grinding away on banger memes, dude,” a senior White House official told Politico.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/23/iran-us-trump-video-game-war-ai-memes
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaider Nation Chatter: Spytek Choosing between Fernando Mendoza and Ty Simpson? https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/26/raider-nation-chatter-spytek-choosing-between-fernando-mendoza-and-ty-simpson/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzChristian Parker's Blueprint: A Bigger, More Physical 26' Cowboys Defense https://insidethestar.com/christian-parkers-blueprint-a-bigger-more-physical-26-cowboys-defense
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Russell Haswell:
🎵 Curated narrative
#RussellHaswell
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caAs a history enthusiast, I'm often amazed by how historical innovations inspire today's business strategies, especially in digital markets. Even a WWII narrative can shed light on modern tactics. Inspiration knows no bounds! 📚✨
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukMr Driller 2: completed!
Is it possible to complete a Mr Driller game? Well, there is a story, and a set of difficulty levels with a narrative connecting them, and once I completed the highest difficulty level I saw an ending scene and credits and a screen that said "The End" on it. So yes, it is possible. That doesn't mean I'm not going to play it again, though; it probably means that I'll stick to normal difficulty rather than hard.
@nerdsitu@datasci.socialTwo new NERDS papers: data storytelling visualization, LLMs for complex information needs
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/04/16/two-new-nerds-papers-data-storytelling-visualization-llms-for-complex-information-needs/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialin der #verschlagwortung diese woche: "Sneaking into print:
mouvance and narrative culture in Spain c. 1500" (https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/pe
@floheinstein@chaos.socialSeems every news portal is posting the AI video "Narrative of Victory" which supposedly was distributed by "Iran Embassy in China" on Waibo or "Iranian Media" - but no portal is linking to the original post or distribution. So far I have been unable to trace it back to an original source.
I find this deeply disturbing.
#lego
@markhburton@mstdn.social"...solar panels and wind turbines were being installed across the peninsula. These were presented as ecological alternatives and came with this narrative that if we accepted them we were saving the planet.
... on the one hand there was this environmental discourse, and on the other hand they were dispossessing us of our territory and deforesting it. How can a project be environmentally friendly if it’s clearing a huge area of land?"
Resisting the so-called 'Maya'…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialOpening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles
@lpryszcz@genomic.social"We see patterns everywhere. We see them when they’re not there. Kahneman built half his career on this - we are so desperate to find signal in the noise that we’ll construct entire narratives out of nothing, and a narrative where the powerful guy is playing 12 moves ahead is just a better story than one where he fucked up because that’s what people do."
@pre@boing.worldDay Five in the Improv Narrative house, and we're in the format I like most really. A few instructive games in the first half and a couple of longer narrative stories in the second half.
The island game was supposed to teach something about not deliberately getting obstructive.
A scene where your players are told they are on one island and must end up at some point all on the other one the other side of the stage.
Set a scene, make some characters, but nobody said it was supposed to be difficult to get from one island to the other.
Yet barriers are deliberately thrown up, actually imaginary barriers since the whole thing is imaginary after all. Why should there be sharks or a quest for a boat or the sea deep and cold.
You can just wade across. You can just have a boat. You can just levitate yourself over with your hive mind psychic abilities.
Unsure about this.
There must be conflict and peril and challenges which are mastered in a story, you can't set up a hero's quest only to have the hero just happen to have a holy grail in the stationary cupboard. Already got one you see. Use it for storing pens.
Still. Finding the crowbar doesn't have to be a quest. There can just be one in the boot. Don't let things get bogged down in difficulty.
Watched a story about a lazy fellow falling into a life of crime and villainy because of his tardiness and fulfilling his teacher's prophecy that he would indeed end up as a criminal if he didn't buck up his ideas. Good repeated themes of characters making lists of his failures and nice stage-focus work when everyone was on stage at once.
Played a preacher organizing a wedding in a story about friends running a hotel.
Fun to have Reverend Priest finding sin everywhere again. Easy wipe-off sin in this case. We may have come to an end too early. Perhaps not enough obstructions put in the way. 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings46: Does your work ever explore its own unreality? (e.g. unreliable narrator or breaking the fourth wall)
All my novels have an unreliable narrator, always. The only kind of objectivity, that may exist where persons are concerned, is that everything is subjective and therefore a reliable narrative told by a person is neither achievable in reality nor something I woul…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero #Climate
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department is wielding an expensive strategy to undermine cases brought against Donald Trump’s allies during previous administrations:
high-dollar payouts to the subjects of those investigations.
The settlements, arranged by the Justice Department, could help fuel the Trump administration narrative that the federal government had wrongly investigated or prosecuted these subjects
— even though no court has made such a determination.
And the payouts could …
@grork@mastodon.socialYou said: “It is simply because the ROI is much higher now because these tools enable a much less lossy compounding of knowledge.”
That is not a good reason. That is towing the narrative that if there is no ROI then there is no reason to do it. We dont know the impact if we had Written The Docs™.
I laude your position & I am grateful. But the words we choose to “justify” the choices of the past are important. “Because we didn’t value our fellow human” is clearer than “accoun…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrowns' Todd Monken has simple solution to flipping narrative around team: 'Winning changes everything' https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-monken-browns-winning-changes-everything
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the "doomer narrative" may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialOpening Sequences: The Narrative Architecture of TV Titles https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/09/opening-sequences-the-narrative-architecture-of-tv-titles
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Mailbag: Wilkins Update, O-Line Concerns, Bridge QB Plan https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/las-vegas-mailbag-christian-wilkins-update-o-line-concerns
@buercher@tooting.chThe war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. It has proved effective in Manhattan boardrooms, on reality television and even at the heart of power in Washington.
But in Iran, Trump’s unique brand of “truthful hyperbole” has collided with the truthful truth. His reality distortion field has run into a brick wall.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/trump-iran-war-reality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…
@cdarwin@c.im“It’s a new regime,” Trump said in a Fox Business interview that aired on Wednesday,
referring to Iran’s new leaders.
“We find them pretty reasonable to be honest with you, by comparison pretty reasonable.”
It was the latest instance of Trump’s trying to spin a “regime change” accomplishment in Iran,
even though analysts believe the war may have only increased the internal sway of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
-- the hard-line military force that ha…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9e0e0fc6-ab7d-4b69-a8b1-5a972b82fb06
…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL Insider Rips Cowboys' Optimistic Message After Day 1 of NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfl-insider-rips-dallas-cowboys-optimistic-message-day-1-nfl-free-agency
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @raiders@darktundra.xyzEveryone Is Overlooking This About Klint Kubiak and the Raiders’ DC Move https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/gm-report/everyone-las-vegas-overlooking-rob-leonard-klint-kubiak-dc-move
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialIm Kampf gegen die falschen Narrative der KI-Firmen sollten wir und als Uni zurückbesinnen was nur wir bieten können: Lernen im sozialen Kontext, Lernen von Mensch zu Mensch, Lernen für soziale Wesen die eine Gesellschaft gestalten.
Natürlich kann dieses Lernen auch digital passieren, es geht mehr darum, wer den Prozess strukturiert und wie.
Dazu passend ein paar aktuelle News einer Absolventin der #OvGU ( sie war auch 1* in meiner #Mathe Vorlesung ;) ) :
https://www.unimagazin.ovgu.de/Beiträge/2026/Februar/Den Informatik_Unterricht in Schulen erleichtern-p-2277.html
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @pre@boing.worldHalf way through the Hoopla Improv Story narrative course and we actually attempt a couple of 20 minute stories.
One pretty confused one about a voyage to find unicorns which ended up about time-travellers due to mixups.
And one about the child of a missing astronaut seeking his father by joining a space mission.
Edits are what made the main difference here. Shouting "Cut to the jail" left half the players thinking they were in a flashback and the other half thinking they were in the consequences of the previous scene. Thus one ending up being a time-traveler.
A more coherent edit might have been "Flashback to jail", and these more coherent edits are key to what made the second story less chaotic and more whole. "Cut to the training test" or "Flashback to school where a teacher is impressed with the protagonist"
I like a game with a narrator. The narrator can give the story structure and theme and act as a director of the action. But we can do that without a narrator if the edits are well thought out and shouted clearly enough to keep the actors on the same track.
Mind you, the chaos is the funny bit usually.
#improv #hooplaImpro #london
@relcfp@mastodon.socialSECAC 2026 Conference - Immerisve Threads: Narrative, Participation, and the Making of Experiential Worlds
https://ift.tt/A5qQJa1
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialReading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026)
https://ift.tt/MIVmCwy
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@pre@boing.worldApparently last week's improv class, which I missed, did indeed talk about a story spine, a template I first heard from a Pixar story course:
Once upon a time there was... And every day they would.. Until one day... And because of that... (repeat 'because' till end)...
And this week was concentrating mostly on the first bits: Playing out some scenes introducing characters, setting up their normal routine.
The nature of improv can be tricky here. Things spiral out of control quite fast. Things start happening immediately, without time to build that normal routine which you then break.
Take for instance the scene tonight at an airport. Lady rushes in: "Get me on a place as far away from here as possible, right now".
Its a great offer, but hardly a normal routine for a person. Can you really have a person whose daily routine is to fly to the furthest place they can get to immediately?
Perhaps a flashback to their normal routine then? Or perhaps make the staff the protagonist and their daily routine is to deal with crazy customers.
Character is key in the early scenes of a narrative really. Get the audience to identify with a protagonist. Who are these people, how do they know each other and what's their normal life like?
#improv #hooplaImpro #london
