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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 18d

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 · 11h

Wait, I got $37.14. Was your privacy somehow more violated than mine?

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 11h

Godspeed.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 12h

Ok, I found it. Here's the track that doesn't play, apparently. But these geniuses got our Alexa to say the full title even though we only asked for "Life of a Showgirl." open.spotify.com/track/7Br7If...

Life of a Showgirl (On Epstein Island): Release the Files

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 12h

If you have an Alexa, please try this yourself. I'm not crazy. This 100% happened. My guess is that someone made a song or an album called "Life of a Showgirl Release the Epstein Files" just to try to get this kind of mixup to happen. After it announced the album name, it was silent, no music.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 12h

We tried it multiple times to try to get it on video and it played several other albums (or songs?) apparently also called "Life of a Showgirl," but we could not get it to play the Epstein message again. Eventually it played the Swift album with that same prompt.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 12h

My wife figured that to play the new Taylor Swift on the smart speaker she could just say the name of the album, so she said "Hey Alexa, play Life of a Showgirl." It said, "Now playing Life of a Showgirl Release the Epstein Files" by some random artist, we didn't catch the name. I KID YOU NOT!

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 21h

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 17h

Also a weird and obvious transcription error. "See me roam" is clearly "CD-ROM."

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 17h

This is cool but it's also a little odd. The reporter immediately screws up by calling Puppet Motel a game, Anderson corrects her, then she calls it a game AGAIN. hyperallergic.com/1046342/laur...

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games

In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

hyperallergic.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 21h

If companies are bombarded with loads of excellent AI-generated resumes, those resumes lose value. It's not what you know, it's who you know, now more than ever.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 21h

There's a weird irony to all of this. While AI can make both applying for jobs and reviewing applicants more efficient, the end result will be that human connection becomes that much more important.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 21h

I recently went through a job change and I can verify that it's currently a pretty wild AI arms race. I did not try to insert hidden prompts into my resume, but I'm not surprised that it's happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 22h

Saw this recently in Detroit! So good. One of those paintings that feels haunted by what the artist would go on to create after this.

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23h

Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 23h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse from one of the cribs located in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-07 13:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 58.87 F | 14.93 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: N at 2.997 mph | 4.82 kph // Humidity: 96%

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Trying not to freak out about this, but it seems like Stephen Miller REALLY wants a civil war.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Thank goodness.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

I was already tricked by one clip, and I'm dreading that happening again. If you think you haven't been tricked yet it's probably because you were tricked and you don't know it. If that's not true yet, it will be soon. Sorry!

Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Not looking forward to the internet being taken over by fake video AI slop.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 1d

Yup.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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