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

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23d

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 · 26m

I really hope Bad Bunny says “fuck ICE” during the Super Bowl.

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Owen Dennis @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social · 2h

I was at this concert and lemme tell you, I've never seen a bigger audience pop than this.

If only there was some kind of message Democrats could read from this. Oh well!

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Pop Star Pauses Concert to Say ‘F*** ICE’

Chappell Roan slammed the federal agency on Friday, while Chance the Rapper put out the same message at a different concert.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 56m

The Texas National Guard troops who looked like this ended up defecting to Chicago.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 3h

Say it LOUDER.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Apples.

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Ronan Delexical @delexical.bsky.social · 1d

Funeral ornament for an empire.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Stop calling them “Democratic cities.” They are attacking American cities.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.

Stephen Miller emerges as key architect of Trump’s offensive on Democratic cities | CNN Politics

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

In the context of all the neoclassical architecture already in DC, this thing would kind of be invisible. Sure, build it, who cares.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

You mean stupid tariffs and a government entirely controlled by Republicans that still can't keep itself running *isn't* doing wonders for the economy??

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2d

Hey guys quick Q what is happening here

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Espen Haug @espenhaug.bsky.social · 2d

Meme "Tariffs, but change them every hour"

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

Early in the year I was contracted to do a series for WaPo about the aesthetics of the Trump administration. That project was just cancelled.

You can read my final column — about Confederate monuments and Charlie Kirk — in my newsletter.

Thanks for reading!

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

Yeah, I also skipped the recession in the last few years of the 00's, but I have limited characters here.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

The 00's are defined by 9/11, the war on terror, George W Bush, and then election of Obama. The 10's are defined by the ascendency of social media, the crisis of traditional media, and election of Donald Trump. HUGELY different eras, I think.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

The 00's and the 10's were actually very distinct from one another, but the change is not sudden in the switch from one decade to the next (same with 20th cent.). But the main thing is that we never really landed on the language to easily refer to the 00's and 10's like the 80's and 90's.

Doug Slack @dslack.bsky.social · 2d

Were the last four decades of the 20th century much more distinct from each other than the past 25 years are now?
Or am I just old and out of touch?

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

Got my copy of On NFTs, edited by Robert Alice. I wrote a short text on the artist @kimasendorf.com and another thing I wrote is quoted in the main essay.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

This is the aesthetic of the future

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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

Forget Barbenheimer, say hello to Simpcraft!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the milkshake duck.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

yikes

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

A funny thing happens when you go into the streets and start picking fights.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

That's not what the guy said.

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 2d

Imagine Julia Child saying “le Creuset is cheugy.”

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 2d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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