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Carl's Mark

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ML student & art nerd currently based in E̶s̶t̶o̶n̶i̶a̶ Copenhagen

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September 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM

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New hat and admin reveal

Black hat that reads "American Century of Humiliation"

August 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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Rare and extremely powerful image of my dog #mcnab

Flying blurry dog having a blast in an Estonian backyard

July 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Dream blunt rotation

July 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Tom Hanks, Bi

May 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM

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I love my wife

Interview excerpt from artist Zody Burke and interviewer Michael Farley, question omitted for alt text char length restrictions.

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Yeah, this is something that I think about kind of constantly but maybe in a more passive way… synthesizing cultural touch points that feel extremely contemporary, thinking about what they mean and why they're important right now, because there's always a reason. It's never really as simple as ‘oh, denim is popular again because of Y2K nostalgia’ — that's obviously a relevant variable, but there's so much more going on that you can dig up. My personal interest in denim has a lot to do with the post-Soviet context. In Estonia, denim was used as a currency on the black market for a while, as a symbol of a Western freedom ideology that felt very far away and unattainable at the time. But yeah, I don't know. I think it's easy to be critical of artists and art that make use of ‘buzzy’ iconography. But I think ultimately people who are critical of this are operating in sort of a neophobic fear, or at worst a totally exhausted anti-feminism… which is like, really boring. Disingenuous, too. My art has been called ‘instagrammable’ in a derogatory way. I resent the implication that these sort of girl-coded tools are inherently flippant because they are being activated by artists like me, who are making work while being aware of being perceived. Sometimes Europeans have really shocked me with their unwillingness to give young, feminine artists the benefit of agency or possession of critical thought. It's like, you're in the labyrinth too, jackass. Where was “Ways of Seeing” while you were studying? People are simultaneously afraid of and dismissive of sexiness, even in 2025. It's like being scared of teenage girls, and I put it in the same category of lazy misogyny. It's like, obviously these things have power. That's why they're trending. That's why they're buzzy. Why aren't you curious about that power at all?

April 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM

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While Rail Baltic HSR is still under construction, the Baltic States have meanwhile harmonized their commuter rail and you can now take a comfortable day trip from Tallinn to Vilnius for 39€ one way.

Train map and schedule for Tallinn-Tartu-Riga-Vilnius route

February 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Bruegel the elder painting of a robustly cheeked man getting bit by a strange different man

February 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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Dog's face sticking out of a grey blanket, the dog is black with white markings on the nose and eyebrows, single finger is gently placed on dog's snout

February 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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Screenshot from the bad place wherein I describe my wife

January 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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January 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM

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Opinions on Danish language from a renowned Tolkien scholar

January 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM

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Got caught marvelling at nature's majesty again

December 21, 2024 at 4:47 PM

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Have you ever looked at like large CNN model filters or generally into explainable AI ? It is an interesting subject -- which aspects of digital images do these models capture.