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I’m at a conference and the same person has asked questions during two Q&A’s that seem way too perfect. I’m pretty sure she’s generating questions using AI and then reading them into the mic. It’s weird!

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I post my photography to Instagram where is gets very little engagement. At the same time it automatically posts to Threads, which I barely use. I check Threads and find that the photo posts get a lot more engagement. Threads is a photo sharing app, I guess?

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I think it was a special developing service that’s doesn’t exist anymore.

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Justin are you going to try to steal my camera?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The trend these days is to scan the negatives and make animated GIFs.

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Amazing stuff here

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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 29/09/2026

I'd like to get a bunch of old 35mm slides. Tourist pics, family, landscapes, whatever. They sell lots on eBay, but I'm wondering about quality for price. Anyone have experience with this?

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 29/09/2026

Current* conditions near L'Anse, MI:

NW view overlooking L'Anse Harbor as it meets L'Anse Bay on Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-28 23:18:13 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@villageoflanse1750 // Current Temp in L'Anse: 53 F | 11 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: S at 7 mph | 12 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 29/09/2026

If you missed my CreativeMornings GR talk it's on YouTube now. Unfortunately this video doesn't show my slides (which I drew by hand!). youtu.be/qLx3CqodYw4?...

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And the business of social media works with the channel surfing model, just serve ads. But getting people to pay for expensive AI subscriptions so they can run agents is a different thing.

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It may be that the AI companies are selling the idea that everyone can make and command "agents," even though a very small number of people will end up doing that. For social media this imbalance worked ok. Maybe on 10% of people post on Instagram, but the other 90% are pretty happy to just watch.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is true. It reminds of how the original promise of social media was that anyone could post, anyone could have a voice. But for most people the experience of social media is more like channel surfing, passive consumption rather than active creation.

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Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 28/09/2026

Current* conditions near South Haven, MI:

View looking WNW over South Beach with the South Haven Lighthouse and channel entrance jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-27 22:36:13 EDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@cityofsouthhaven // Current Temp in South Haven: 54 F | 12 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: N at 1 mph | 2 kph // Humidity: 87%

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Emo Philips @emophilips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I never signed a release

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jug-hooting yokel @limusrex.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I just bought a weird camera at an estate sale auction.

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the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Next month I’m giving a talk on art and AI. It’s being promoted on Instagram and there are a bunch of people in the comments who want assurance that the talk will be TOTALLY ANTI-AI, or they’re going to be BIG MAD.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Joseph Beuys in the swamp - Gianfranco Gorgoni - 1971

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026

Rabid supporter of the Third Amendment.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah I grew up listening to jazz

A felt flower toy. It has a face wearing sunglasses and it's holding a saxophone. I am pretty sure it dances and wiggles while it plays music.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 24/09/2026

I’m at Little Caesar’s Area in Detroit and I’m 99% sure they’re running Labatt Blue Light through the Goose Island 312 tap. ☹️

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I want to say some things but good lord I shouldn’t.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23/09/2026

Not only did I not use AI to design my slides, I decided to also eschew Powerpoint templates in favor of hand drawing my slides with a sharpie and then taking photos of the papers.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23/09/2026

I had such a fun time speaking at CreativeMornings GR last week. I talked about lasagna, overhead projectors, pennies, and river surfing. You had to be there. Thanks Brianna Kilgore for these wonderful photos.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 23/09/2026

I don't know what "hyrox" is. I only know that lady shit herself doing it.

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I don’t like this one at all.

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I know the nuclear or germ warfare scenarios are possible, but I think a completely poisoned internet is much more likely.

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I know they mean what they say. I think they have a particular brand of biased thinking where they're unable to differentiate between ending the internet and ending humanity. The transition would be rough, but I actually think humanity could do pretty well without the internet.

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We could... write things on paper.

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Don't get me wrong, taking the whole internet offline permanently would kill people and create a massive economic disruption worse than we've ever seen. But people survive without the internet now, and I think we could rebuild communication and economic systems without it.

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I can see how AI would make the internet completely unusable, but eliminating all human life seems way less likely. The good news is that humanity does not need the internet to survive. We didn't have for most of the time we've been here.

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