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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...

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

An individual’s death contribution is calculated by multiplying their tax contribution by a yearly deaths/dollar ratio (total deaths / defense department inlays from income tax).

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Income Tax Body Count

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/04/2026

Deaths from conflicts involving the U.S. military are totaled for every year between 2001 and 2025. Each conflict has an estimated minimum and maximum death total based on available data. Maximum death estimates include an estimate of indirect as well as direct deaths.

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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'll be showing web scraping tools and techniques, and my co-teacher Maura Brewer, who's a an artist AND private investigator, will cover some more manual investigative techniques.

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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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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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Offset

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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Offset

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

Most carbon footprint calculators determine carbon impacts based on consumption and lifestyle. But through the Offset project I got interested in the relationship between income and emissions: is it possible to calculate impacts based solely on income levels? And what would those calculations imply?

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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

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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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

(All photos by Dan Bradica Studio)

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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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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

btw, the amazing 50-a.org now lets you search cops by their faces as well: www.50-a.org/search/image

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Search by image : 50-a.org

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