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The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Reinstate Laid-Off Faculty at The New School. Sign our petition here 👉 forms.gle/NB9DCgVoonAg... @aaup.org
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Reinstate Laid-Off Faculty at The New School
On June 1, 2026, the New School announced the mass firing of 19 Full-Time Faculty and 68 staff members. These firings, along with coerced “voluntary” separations, early retirements, and step-downs sin...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 05/05/2026
I'm doing a little reading tomorrow eve at the Wythe in Brooklyn. You can RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/04/2026
Last year @tega.bsky.social and I contributed an essay to the book "Are You a Software Update". For our research, we scraped the names, descriptions, and funding totals of around 17,000 "AI" companies from crunchbase. You can explore this sad, searchable archive for yourself at aicompanies.labr.io
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 15/04/2026
happy tax day
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/04/2026
A form which calculates an individual’s “income tax body count”, or the total number of conflict-related deaths they have caused through their income tax contributions to the U.S. government. income-tax-body-count.lav.io
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 08/04/2026
There are still some seats available in my @sfpc.study 2-day workshop: "How To Find What You Are Looking For". We'll be looking manual and automated investigative techniques. No programming experience needed. It'll be a blast! Sign up here: sfpc.study/sessions/spr...
A picture of the earth from space with a question mark over it.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 23/03/2026
I'm co-teaching a 2-day in-person workshop at @sfpc.study: "How To Find What You Are Looking For". sfpc.study/sessions/spr... "How can data collection be leveraged for liberatory, poetic, or critical ends? How can artists make use of techniques deployed by private investigators?"
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School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.
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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 10/03/2026
Gather in-person with the School for Poetic Computation for one- & two-day workshops that bring our study into shared space! ✿ Consensual Hacking w/ Melanie Hoff ◻︎ Counterveillance w/ American Artist ✴︎ How to Find What You’re Looking For w/ Sam Lavigne & Maura Brewer Sign up: sfpc.study
Horizontal neon yellow and blue starburst poster reading "Spring Workshops 2026" in the center, with "In-person," "School for Poetic Computation," "April," and "NYC" spaced around the star-shaped border.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/03/2026
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
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This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/03/2026
i love that this has an enterprise edition
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 16/03/2026
I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
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SLOW LLM is a browser extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly.
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 16/03/2026
I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
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SLOW LLM is a browser extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 03/12/2025
Just over a week and a half to go see my show with @tega.bsky.social at Pioneer Works before it closes!
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/11/2025
ok i also made a quick (client-side) interface for searching through the latest epstein stuff. It's just the emails. It's very rough! antiboredom.github.io/epstein-emai...
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Epstein Emails
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 07/11/2025
Here's something I wrote about "unconventional" carbon credits, making the world's first (??) income-based carbon footprint calculator, and trying to determine the avoided emissions benefit of Brian Thompson's homicide. lav.io/notes/carbon...
A graph showing household income vs emissions
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 07/11/2025
Here's something I wrote about "unconventional" carbon credits, making the world's first (??) income-based carbon footprint calculator, and trying to determine the avoided emissions benefit of Brian Thompson's homicide. lav.io/notes/carbon...
A graph showing household income vs emissions
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/10/2025
wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
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Art Gallery Shows to See in November
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tired of all the slop? I built a browser extension called Slop Evader that only returns search results from before Nov 30, 2022 - the pre-ChatGPT internet. Sure, the info is a couple years old, but at least you know a human wrote it :) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/slop-...
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Slop Evader - Chrome Web Store
An extension for avoiding AI slop
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 22/10/2025
Offset Marketplace is a new project in collaboration with @tega.bsky.social. We calculate the carbon savings of industrial sabotage, package these savings into carbon credits, and sell them as certificates. Profits are then donated back to the activists responsible for the actions. offset.labr.io
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!
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Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 18/09/2025
Come see "How To Get To Zero", my new collaborative exhibit with @tega.bsky.social at @pioneerwork.bsky.social. It's up until Dec 13th. The show includes 10 pieces, covering the last decade of our solo and collective practices.
Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a stylized earth in the background and in the foreground a scale with sugar being poured on one side of the scale and a measuring tape on the other side.Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a tree in the background and in the foreground a scale with an ipad on one side of the scale and a miniature globe on the other side.An ipad with with Offset website on it.A gallery shot featuring two fences draped with fabric.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 16/09/2025
The in-person component of "Offset" is akin to a call center combined with an alternate reality game, where you can get on a leaderboard by logging the longest calls made to oil and gas executives: hellgatenyc.com/sam-lavigne-...
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Go to Red Hook to Heckle Some Oil and Gas Execs
Plus more links for your Tuesday.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 12/09/2025
A lot going on today! But if you're free and in NY, I'm having an opening with @tega.bsky.social tonight at Pioneer Works - 7pm to 9pm.
Opening Reception: Raul de Nieves, Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne. Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY, Sept 12th 7pm-9pm
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Excited to announce, How to Get to Zero, a two-person show with Sam Lavigne (@lav.io). Opens Friday, September 12th at Pioneer Works. Come thruuuu... pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/...
Image showing a balance scale with money on one side and leaves on the other, overlaid onto a simulated view of the earth. Text shares exhibition opening details.
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C-SPAN 5 @cspan5.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
uhhhhh
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C-SPAN 5 @cspan5.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
uhhhhhhhhhh
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 22/06/2025
For people in LA: fucklapd.com
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LAPD Facial Recognition
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 16/06/2025
I'm on the jury for this open call to fund works opposing tech fascism. Awards are between €1500 and € 7000. Applications due tomorrow! error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
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Call For Projects — Error 406 Tech Fascism Not Acceptable
We are looking for 10 scores against tech fascism. Artists, curators, and collectives worldwide are invited to apply with project ideas that must be realized as a set of instructions, scores, how-tos,...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 15/06/2025
special thanks to our sponsor
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 22/11/2024
Very special studio visit today
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 19/11/2024
It's back! My videobot that creates automated supercuts from C-SPAN videos was killed by Musk, but is alive again on bluesky.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 09/11/2024
doing an open studio with Tega Brain tomorrow (Sunday) at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. come commiserate! We'll be there 2pm-5ish. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/07/2024
Made a new project called Coppelganger: it uses facial recognition on an archive of ~10,000 publicly available images of NYPD cops to tell you which cop you most resemble. coppelganger.lav.io Find the cop lurking deep within!
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NYPD Coppelgänger
Facial recognition on NYPD cops
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 28/06/2024
Wrote a piece with Tega Brain in e-flux architecture about data and carbon offset schemes. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Spatial Computing - Tega Brain et al. - All that is Air Melts into Air
The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or ...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 28/06/2024
biden/trump: the silent parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvY...
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Biden/Trump Presidential Debate (the silences)
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 14/05/2024
Join me tomorrow as I attempt to create a facial recognition system capable of identifying NYPD cops. www.screenwalks.com
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Screen Walks
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 22/12/2023
Here's a blog post showcasing work students made in my "Infinite Video" class at the School for Poetic Computation. In the class we used command-line tools, Python libraries and various machine learning models to analyze, filter, sort, edit, and compose video with code. lav.io/notes/infini...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 21/12/2023
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 28/10/2023
The words of the super pissed off commuter (trying to get around the JVP protest at Grand Central) who was screaming “Palestine ruins everything! I want to go to Tarrytown!” will forever be seared in my mind.
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 11/10/2023
A large loaf of bread lay on the table. Father came in with a knife to cut it in half. But even though the knife was big and sharp, and the bread neither too soft nor too hard, the knife could not cut into it. We children looked up at Father in surprise. He said, “Why should you be surprised?"
A large loaf of bread lay on the table. Father came in with a knife to cut it in half. But even though the knife was big and sharp, and the bread neither too soft nor too hard, the knife could not cut into it. We children looked up at Father in surprise. He said, “Why should you be surprised? Isn’t it more surprising if something succeeds than if it fails? Go to bed, perhaps I’ll manage it later.” We went to bed, but every now and again, at all hours of the night, one or another of us got up and craned his neck to look at Father, who stood there, a big man in his long coat, his right leg braced behind him, seeking to drive the knife into the bread. When we woke up early in the morning, Father was just laying the knife aside, and said, “You see, I haven’t managed yet, that’s how hard it is.” We wanted to distinguish ourselves, and he gave us permission to try, but we could hardly lift the knife, whose handle was still almost glowing from Father’s efforts;
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 03/10/2023
Wrote about web scraping as an artistic and political practice for the new journal Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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Scrapism: A Manifesto | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 29/09/2023
tormented by apple autocorrecting “mamma mia” to “Mamma Mia”
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 04/09/2023
I wrote up some notes about my FFmpeg visual command builder, and on how to pick a good test image/video for software projects: lav.io/notes/ffmpeg...
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 26/08/2023
the hacker news people are NOT HAPPY that the demo video for my ffmpeg project is Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726... Richard Spencer getting punched in the face is the new Lenna!
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 25/08/2023
I've been working on a tool to help people explore ffmpeg filters in the browser. You can now use a simple node-based editor to compose complex filtergraphs. User testers wanted! ffmpeg.lav.io
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 20/08/2023
in an act of terminal procrastination I've made a tool to help people explore FFmpeg filters live in browser: ffmpeg.lav.io Still needs a lot of work -- If anyone is interested doing some bug testing/giving general feedback I'd appreciate it!
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FFmpeg Explorer!
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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 08/08/2023
I'm teaching a new class at School for Poetic Computation this September called "Infinite Video." It's about using Python, command line tools, and machine learning models as a means to critically analyze, filter, sort, edit, and compose video: sfpc.study/sessions/fall-23/infinit…
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School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.
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