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Kevin Buist

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Art critic, filmmaker, communicator. https://kevinbuist.com/

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 26d

I wrote an essay to go along with this wonderful work by David Lisser released by Transient Labs

It's about mirrors and art history and machine vision. Featuring The Arnolfini Portrait, Las Meninas, Robert Smithson, and more.

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The Machine Cannot See Itself

On David Lisser’s Mirror 404 by Kevin Buist

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 3h

Nazi reps fuck off

Politico @politico.com · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 22h

@kwholesaler.bsky.social sighting

Instagram reel with the “Antonio Banderas seeing something he likes on his computer and leaning back in satisfaction” gif:

Cormac McCarthy fans when they read: "The man ate the beans and they were good beans and he shared some beans with the boy who also enjoyed the beans as a dust devil gyrated its moribund burlesque in the half-cooked dusk light of winter beans."

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 5h

I googled "Is Bluesky down?" and the AI summary said no, no reports of issues. The link below that was Down Detector, clicked that, sure enough, a huge spike of reports that Bluesky was down.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21h

Wanna know why Sam Altman and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel all LOVED Eliezer Yudkowsky, right up until they ignored him?

It’s because he was USEFUL to their efforts to attract funding and talent to their new companies.

If you think futurism is about accuracy, then you’re the sucker at the table.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 9h

"No Kings" is great rhetorical framing. Every time these fascist idiots talk against it they sound silly and deeply un-American.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 23h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

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A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 9h

Not sure whether to listen to this... I heard this guy interviewed on Hard Fork and he kept saying AGI will 100% kill humanity, and the hosts simply never pushed him to prove that claim! It's a very big claim! It requires some very substantial evidence!

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 9h

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

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How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

This starts to get to this very weird territory, which I agree is the domain of philosophers, where we need to make distinctions between a thing and something that is very good at mimicking the thing. Even if the distinction is real, what happens when most people don't notice or care?

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Excellent stuff from @eryk.bsky.social here: mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

I wrote a short blurb about an artwork. The editor felt it was a little lacking, so he linked to a longer essay about the same work. But the thing is, I also wrote the longer essay. Oops.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The Affordable Care Act has proven a big success with the public, according to a new CNN poll. It’s gained 40 points in net favourability since 2014 and now stands at +30 points net favourable.

More Republicans than Democrats now use the ACA marketplace.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

I mean, I'm still here every day. But often it just seems like people reacting to bad news and explaining why it's even worse than you thought. Maybe it's just the current news environment.

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 28

A digital homage/ripoff of Magritte’s painting ‘The Treachery of Images’. An image of a brown and black tobacco pipe with a curved stem sits isolated on a plain tan field. Below the pipe in black cursive handwriting is the phrase ‘Peut-être que cela arrivera aujourd'hui’ which I sincerely hope is an adequate French translation of ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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i'm just patrick, deep down @ouisequitur.bsky.social · 1d

c'mon now

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Dungeon Delve Bot @dungeondelvebot.bsky.social · 1d

A good-natured rogue has warned you not to enter this spooky gateway. Do you dare enter?

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Yeah.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Also! I keep a YouTube playlist of cool cover songs that I find. There are so many great ones. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Cover Songs - YouTube

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Prince covering "Creep" by Radiohead at Coachella. youtu.be/NFXZNt4oLkE?...

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

The problem, for me at least, is that social media is like fishing. You can't really judge it by only accounting for the amount of time you spend actually catching a fish.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

What percentage of time spent on social media is a total waste?

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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 2d

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 2d

not a problem, pete will just text them the state secrets directly.

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