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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Screenshot of the website featuring a cubist image of three figures engaging in art experiments; title: Fall 2026: Public Study; text Our Fall course, “Public Study,” will examine the past, present, and future of popular, alternative, and radical education — particularly as they shape the intellectual, political, and cultural landscape of New York City; and as they’ve intersected with established cultural heritage and educational institutions. Applications are due August 7 at 11:59pm ET.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Climate denial in the 2020s:

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Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

ROTBOTS Workshop with @bitnik.bsky.social: THU, 2 July at /rosa, Berlin distant.gallery/rotbots Can automated content become a form of resistance? Initiated by @networked.work with Fabian Hampel + @realclusterfuck.bsky.social, @lav.io, @tega.bsky.social, @iocose.bsky.social, !Mediengruppe Bitnik.

A surreal digital artwork showing the interior of an empty house transformed into a dreamlike landscape. The walls and ceiling are covered with a bright blue sky and white clouds, while the entire floor is densely filled with orange flowers resembling California poppies. Several doorways create a recursive view into more rooms with the same sky-and-flower environment. On the right is a white-curtained window and a white brick fireplace. Across the center of the image, large bold pink capital letters spell “ROTBOTS.” The overall palette is vivid blue, orange, white, and pink, creating a striking contrast between domestic architecture and an endless flowering field.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Someone has been impersonating me via the email address tegabrainart@gmail.com.. it’s not me!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm working on some research with @phoenixperry.bsky.social Luke Dubois and @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social on data sharing tools and frameworks for artists. We're hiring some fellows for the USA side of the work. Details are here.. Please share with your networks: tinyurl.com/fed-small-data

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Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Workshop w/ @lav.io & @tega.bsky.social at /rosa. ROTBOTS focusses on building semi-autonomous ‘content machines’: systems that generate and distribute artistic brainrot across social media. Can automated content become a form of resistance? More workshops: distant.gallery/rotbots @networked.work

A group of people sits around tables and benches in a bright corner room with large windows facing the street. A man stands near the doorway speaking to the group while holding a drink and gesturing with one hand. Several people listen attentively, some seated at the tables with glasses, coffee cups, and plates of pastries in front of them. Daylight fills the minimalist space with white walls, wooden floors, and large street-facing windows showing trees, bicycles, and parked cars outside.

A workshop session takes place around a dark table with laptops, glasses, cables, and a projector. Two seated participants work at laptops while a man stands beside them speaking with one hand on his chest. A bright green computer interface is projected onto the wall behind them, casting green light across the scene. Other participants sit around the table listening and taking notes in a sparse room with white walls and technical equipment spread across the table.

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Genuinely baffled by people who sincerely believe that being against AI data center development means you're a NIMBY. Might as well call the Standing Rock protesters NIMBYs too. A data center is not a house or park. It doesn't improve the community. It's purely infrastructure for extracting value.

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Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Open call docs.google.com/document/d/1... What happens when work is automated? ROTBOTS invites artists & critical makers to build content machines that don't optimize labor, but disrupt it. @lav.io @tega.bsky.social @realclusterfuck.bsky.social @iocose.bsky.social @bitnik.bsky.social @networked.work

A layered collage-style image. In the background, a large close-up of an animated elderly monkey’s face with white hair and a stern expression fills the frame. Across the center, bold white capital letters outlined in bright pink spell “ROTBOTS.” At the top left, a close-up shows strawberries shaped like small mice being sliced with a knife on a wooden surface, with red juice spread like liquid. At the top right, a small inset shows hands with painted nails tapping or pressing on an object in an ASMR-style setup with microphones nearby. At the bottom right, another inset shows a person wearing a head-mounted device and holding a microphone near a window, while smaller fragmented video clips appear to the left, including a performer speaking and abstract digital imagery. The overall composition mixes playful, unsettling, and media-art elements.

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 16/03/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMkv...

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SLOW LLM

YouTube video by Sam Lavigne

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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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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you're interested in replacing the big corporate tech stack we've all become so reliant on, these workshop offerings from Nikau (@julian0liver.bsky.social + Crystelle Vu are for you 👀: courses.nikau.io/currently-av...

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Currently available courses – Nīkau Courses

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Rebecca A @creativeresistance.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Come work with me @nyutandon.bsky.social. We are seeking an industry assistant professor of design and media.. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/176445 Application review starts January 12th.

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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

“I don’t think browser add-ons are gonna save us,” said Tega Brain. “For me, the purpose of doing this work is mostly to act as a provocation and give people examples of how you can refuse this stuff, to furnish one’s imaginary for what a politics of refusal could look like.”

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'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I find this collaborative approach to urban wildlife very sweet somehow, even though it is transactional and involving crows into our systems of exchange. Like, yes, give them snacks. Share resources, collaborate, we are already so over-involved in their futures www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts

Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 13/11/2025

enron.email since we're all talking about the big email dump full of crimes, I am sharing an old favorite emails full of crimes art project by @tega.bsky.social and @lav.io

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The Good Life

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

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Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/11/2025

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Andres Serrano__________________________wrote:
Jeffrey,
I was prepared to vote against Trump for all the right reasons but I'm so disgusted by the outrage over "grab
them by the pussy" that I may give him my sympathy vote.
I'm sure Bill C said things, too.
Andres

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Sam Lavigne @lav.io · 13/11/2025

it's pretty crazy

From: Joi Ito
Sent: 2/16/2016 7:23:58 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Jeffrey Epstein
Importance: High
Good. Was worried you getting deposed about Trump or something. :-)
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 16, 2016, at 11:16, jeffrey E. wrote:
Good not bad
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016, Joi Ito <____________________> wrote:
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lesley Groff < >
Date: February 16, 2016 at 11:07:17 PST
To: Joichi Ito
Cc: "Joichi (Joi) Ito"
Subject: Jeffrey Epstein
Joi, I am so very sorry but Jeffrey is canceling his trip to Vancouver! It is very sudden and he is sorry, but he
is flying to Washington, DC now.
I am sure he will be in touch with you...
Please accept our apologies..
Lesley

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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 · 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 · 23/10/2025

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Got off a call from openai this wk about their unpaid artist "fellowship" program involving getting access to the sora api so you can explore "what might be possible." Like u gotta be kidding me, this the worlds biggest start up valued at 500 BILLION & they cant even do a paid fellowship program 😱

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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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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

👀 Hotgirlsforcuomo.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.) Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/10/2025

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Fantastic set of resources on a teaching or developing a creative practice rooted in inquiry, context, and change. Developed by Sarah Hakani, Sarah Rothberg, Cy X, Rosalie Yu, and Marina Zurkow. criticalexperiences.itp.io/modules/

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Modules – Critical Experiences

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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!