Kevin Buist
@kevinbuist.com
Art critic, filmmaker, communicator.
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Kevin Buist reflects on Mitchell F. Chan’s “Zantar” games, crypto, and the attention economy
www.artforum.com
For @artforum.com I wrote about @chan.gallery's series of "Zantar" video game artworks, which I saw and played at Nguyen Wahed in New York in May. These works are funny, sad, and a biting critique of crypto, the attention economy, and gamified finance. www.artforum.com/columns/mitc...
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Whether it's garbage NYT left-bait or right wing flood-the-zone nonsense that we all pile on to, we are letting the wrong people set our overall information agenda in a very deep and fundamental way. And it's a very serious mistake.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Whether it's garbage NYT left-bait or right wing flood-the-zone nonsense that we all pile on to, we are letting the wrong people set our overall information agenda in a very deep and fundamental way. And it's a very serious mistake.
Detroit
Which US city has improved the most over the past 15 years?
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Detroit
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no idea how you'd study this without running into a correlation is not causation problem but i wonder if every extra few minutes you spend driving to the polling place increases the odds you're going to vote for republicans by 1%
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
no idea how you'd study this without running into a correlation is not causation problem but i wonder if every extra few minutes you spend driving to the polling place increases the odds you're going to vote for republicans by 1%
Gotta say, I'm haunted by the possibility of the Bubba photograph.
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Gotta say, I'm haunted by the possibility of the Bubba photograph.
He looks like he's six years old.
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
He looks like he's six years old.
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extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"
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So being "canceled" is actually a promotion in practical terms
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So being "canceled" is actually a promotion in practical terms
I've only tried to use Gemini inside Google Drive a few times, but every time it's just an abject failure. Like, hilariously bad.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I've only tried to use Gemini inside Google Drive a few times, but every time it's just an abject failure. Like, hilariously bad.
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You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
Nope. Nope, nope, nope. NOPE!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Nope. Nope, nope, nope. NOPE!
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i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i wonder if haidt will revise his thesis about the excesses of left wing universities or if he just chuckles while sitting on a mountain of cash
I’m not a Catholic, so I guess it’s not for me to say, but my sense is that these guys are Catholic and JD Vance is not.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I’m not a Catholic, so I guess it’s not for me to say, but my sense is that these guys are Catholic and JD Vance is not.
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Moby Dick -- Rehearsed. A film by Orson Welles, starring Christopher Lee, Patrick McGoohan, and *Kenneth Williams*, from 1955 before any of them were stars except Welles. Half-filmed and then abandoned, and rumours differ about whether what was filmed was accidentally burned or just got vinegared.
What's the movie that almost got made but never came together that you're bummed about?
Mine is the William Gains biopic Philip Seymour Hoffman was trying to get made
Mine is the William Gains biopic Philip Seymour Hoffman was trying to get made
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Moby Dick -- Rehearsed. A film by Orson Welles, starring Christopher Lee, Patrick McGoohan, and *Kenneth Williams*, from 1955 before any of them were stars except Welles. Half-filmed and then abandoned, and rumours differ about whether what was filmed was accidentally burned or just got vinegared.
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this nerd usually has one or more of the following attributes and obsessions:
- a beard
- catholicism
- a favorite history podcast
- housing policy
- advanced degree
- a beard
- catholicism
- a favorite history podcast
- housing policy
- advanced degree
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Klein's "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" line is particularly telling here. It had nothing to do with the facts of Kirk's life and actions, and everything to do with belief. If Kirk *wasn't* doing politics the right way, Klein's own interactions with him seem naive and foolish.
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Klein's "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" line is particularly telling here. It had nothing to do with the facts of Kirk's life and actions, and everything to do with belief. If Kirk *wasn't* doing politics the right way, Klein's own interactions with him seem naive and foolish.
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Mostly the latter!
some people opposed 'woke culture' because they thought they had better, fairer standards and others opposed it because they don't have any (and hope you don't either)
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Mostly the latter!
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Hans Ulrich Obrist
who is the person plausibly in the Epstein emails who you would be saddest to discover in the Epstein emails?
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hans Ulrich Obrist
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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