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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Jan 9

How is it that there are always at least 67 contradictory sources for literally any event, but not a single one saying I can have wine a few hours after a wisdom tooth removal—only “not for 5-7 business days”?

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 12d

Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 14d

why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 16d

there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 22d

" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what?
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends

Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner?

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 28d

i still hate boris more.

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Sep 4

from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 28

paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent
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There are research opportunities at KASK & Conservatorium for new researchers and for teaching colleagues, for younger and for more experienced…

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 24

My mom’s needlework is about to be the hype now that everyone’s sick of conceptual art’s pretentiousness and watching and precision-based crafts get swallowed up by AI goblins. 🪭🪭🪭

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 21

my mom has quietly become a cartographer. she has photographed and mapped all of the manor houses in the country.
who knew Estonia had so many estates?

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 16

memetic theory and mimetic theory are not the same, but i keep seeing people using them interchangeably (or trying to correct me when i mean Girard, not Dawkins) as if it's a variation on a spelling (there is a meme pun somewhere in here, help) mimetictheory.com/memetic-theo...

Memetic Theory versus Mimetic Theory - Mimetic Theory

Meme theory (memetic theory) by Richard Dawkins is different from mimetic theory (by Girard) in that is deals with the imitation of things, not desires.

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Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 15

reading for a proposal about satellite surveillance of grass and this so far is one of my favorite papers.

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 15

where you at, before you got to cut things down to 5-8K?

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 13

whenever I photograph at a wedding, I secretly imagine myself working on a project called "divorce": photograph the wedding, wait, photograph the divorce, exhibit is both side by side

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 10

David Chickan, killed in battle, was a talented artist, an immortal soul, a friend, a husband, and a new dad 🤍

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Aug 10

“lovers need no marker, they know exactly where their soulmate rests because they put them there”

Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · Jul 26

there is little correlation between merit and prestige: every field includes some clunkers and nitwits, even in high positions www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/19/s...