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Open call for a show "In The Zone", a show I'm curating at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin: moha.wiki/In_the_Zone:...

2026 is truly the year of strung-out gamblers and grift-ers. The highest levels of government and business are rampant with bare-faced, hardly concealed corruption and bribery. Crypto meme coins are still, somehow, prevalent. Every book, website, picture, and, most im-portantly, every dollar, is force fed through a trough of
"AI" systems, a capital investment which itself is an extraordinarily risky bet wagered by the ultra-rich on the future of the economy (and possibly human extinction, if you believe the hype), with the rest of us sacrificed as collateral. Popular prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket let anyone bet it all on nearly anything, and as a result any tidbit of knowledge gleaned from even the most banal interaction becomes a potential windfall. It's the democratization of insider trading, or as the founder of Kalshi has put it, everything becomes financialized and every difference in opinion becomes a tradable asset.

With multiple extinction events (both real and imag-ined) looming large, a fully eroded middleclass, and fascism on the screen and in the streets, there's never been a better time to gamble away what little savings you have in a last-ditch, almost certainly hopeless effort to escape what the silicon valley overlords have termed the "permanent underclass."
In this exciting, near-terminal moment, we invite artists to contribute works to 'In The Zone".
, an upcoming
exhibit/casino at The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) in Austin, TX. We are seeking works that respond to gambling or games of chance in some form, and themselves can be gambled on. These might include unconventional slot machines or other forms of machine gambling, works that critically engage with prediction markets (and/or are prediction markets), day trading schemes, NFTs, crypto scams, insider trad-

ing exchanges, and so on. Feel free to incorporate the classics as well; roulette, bingo, craps, poker, two-up, blackjack, pull tabs, rigged carnival games, subprime mortgage collapses, beanie babies, scratch offs, meat raffles, dog racing, tulips, and so on.
Works of all formats are accepted, as long as they can be gambled on. Artists are invited to create new works, or to add gambling mechanisms to existing pieces.
Works in the show should not accept actual currency
(US dollars, crypto, etc), and will instead make use of "Human Dollars", a fictional currency that MoHA will provide to guests. Artists may incorporate currency input/output mechanisms directly into their works, or employ an honor system to deal with payments and winnings.

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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

my favorite 'ai' company is probably "Labs": a "superintelligence Human-enhancement technology supercompany". They make a "Social-Taste Superapp" (!!!!!) called "Yuhmmy". We live in a golden age!

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/04/2026

A few things we found....

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 22/10/2025

The certificates are 11x11 inch archival quality prints covering a range of direct actions that have occurred in the last few years. Buy one today!

Newcastle port blockade carbon credit certificate.

Lafarge Cement Plant Shutdown carbon credit certificate.

Dakota Access Pipeline Disruption carbon credit certificate.

Exxon Pipeline Disruption carbon credit certificate.

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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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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.

A gallery shot featuring two fences draped with fabric.

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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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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 · 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 · 31/07/2024

Update: you can now export a gif of your coppelganger

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/07/2024

co(p)sine similarity (sorry)

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 30/07/2024

Some cop clusters

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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 · 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?"

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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 · 29/08/2023

Update: the filtergraph seems to be working much better now, and It can output gifs now!

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 26/08/2023

some have suggested switching to the "big buck bunny" video because it's less "distracting" but honestly I find the big bunny video pretty distracting...

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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 · 10/07/2023

I have reduced Avatar 2 Way of the Water to a single dimension. lav.io/notes/avatar-2-way-of-the-wa…

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 21/06/2023

For years I’ve wanted to make an Apple Watch app that just plays the movie “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” on loop so you can watch it on the go — now thinking this would be better for the Apple Vision Pro?

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 25/05/2023

Changed my username to “lapd” to commemorate this Amazon Prime van with its door attached by moving tape

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 24/05/2023

Republicans really shooting themselves in the foot if they actually eliminate tenure in Texas. Don’t they realize it would also prevent job titles like this from ever happening again:

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