Mari Bastashevski

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”?

well, that aged well..

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Hello World! We have a new website. It is a teaser about our many special characters! Also, tertiary colors, the “off-off” set, I am in love! www.warthog.nl

NYT covering the eclipse like it should have covered the genocide!

feelings, after being inundated by pop-psychology and pseudo psychoanalysis at every turn...

women be like “yeah im going to show him how it’s done” and get a casual phd in deep chest trauma through self - stabbing w dagger

« protein psychosis » look unexpectedly wholesome as roommates in a sentence www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/pushing-pr...

isaiprofitable.com

how it feels to process Horizon calls for proposals, in art and science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltb...

22: 16 Theory: people do think of AI as a kind of duplicate wife, but incorrect guess is what he should have been writing down instead, that is the path to surprise discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?t=1335...

networkcultures.org/longform/202... stunning research into what AI has got to do with plantations from a colleague in the Netherlands! 😍

knows nothing about football: 0:0 is ok for now! we can handle a bit of mirroring

they call the mouse at our sports club Messi. bet he is here w all of his referee uncles!

Can't care less for any of the eleven men running after one ball, still mad as hell about the World Cup. Sport is so political, there's no sport left in it!

A lot of this workshop is sitting with something I keep coming back to: we're intelligent enough to know our agency is very limited, but are we intelligent enough to recognize it and work as if we have it anyway? nias.knaw.nl/events/proce...

new selecta course on time. open to everyone with university affiliation. long reading list, but since overwhelm is era, we're allowed to impose no more than 3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I once introduced a man I was dating to philosophy. At first he didn't think he was smart enough for it, but I told him he was Ok. He's now a multi-millioner defense tech investor in the US and Israel. Don't use dating apps

Things that just happen in my brain on a random Thursday: Does Lola from Run Lola Run and the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland share the same prehension of time?

Wow, it’s like Christmas came early, in that I’m confused and disoriented because something fundamental has been violated and I’m wondering where all the time went.

absolutely losing my mind over the new found state paper's damning review of my parents' Central Asia tour. apparently they trolled the censorship committee -those lowlife criminals -by promising a professionally trained fly act but performing banned sad songs instead...unhinged 🪰💩🪰

I don't know where exactly the Centre for Luminescence Dating is in our building or what it does, but as someone with considerable experience in the queer dating scene, I know luminescence is a red flag. I spent a lot of time alone in the dark before this glow up

Human: uses AI to avoid limits and knowledge. Snails: merging cells to transcend phylogenetic limits and live exclusively off light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDw...

Sunday thought for this legend www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1...

Things that I noticed to be much more commonplace in society than people who exoticise them seems to realize: 1. Queer men that date men and women. 2. Older women with younger men in an ordinary (non-fetishistic) relationships. 3. Zizeks. There's a Balkan pub full of them 200m away from my house

the most obv. move for algorithms, managing society: as soon as humans draw near solving the riddle of immortality, make their lives unbearable

Friendly Federal Assassin sounds like an album reviewed by Pitchfork and an adult fantasy novel with a strong female lead, rated 4.5 stars on Goodreads

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Romesco Wants Free Palestine

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

"Against the insistent poisoned passion of dismembering and demystifying, it affirms that which they all require in order not to enslave us: that we are not alone in the world." Isabelle Stengers (I love her) www.e-flux.com/journal/36/6...

Robert Smithson, the only artist "seriously interested" in the landscapes of Netherlands in the last century www.mariangoodman.com/news/529-ope...

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Me and the fellas getting the oil around the Hormuz blockade

imagine you lived for a thousand years and Karp was your best work

Big news out of our building today that has nothing to do with the late wars. Sea levels are already much higher than most people realize. The models were wrong. www.wur.nl/en/longread/...

walking dead analogy doesn't really work here. these are not zombie worms, they were never really dead, and they are certainty not dead now, wiggling their ancient, 40.000 year old worm bodies www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

turns out no amount of soft and hard genocide denial will count as loyalty when the time comes... what a shock to see this approach fail, I'm shocked.

A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…