Reinstate Laid-Off Faculty at The New School. Sign our petition here 👉 forms.gle/NB9DCgVoonAg... @aaup.org
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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I'm doing a little reading tomorrow eve at the Wythe in Brooklyn. You can RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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
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
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...
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?"
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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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
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.
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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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.
slowllm.lav.io
Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io
Sam Lavigne@lav.io · 5mo agoI made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
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.
slowllm.lav.io
Just over a week and a half to go see my show with @tega.bsky.social at Pioneer Works before it closes!
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...
Epstein Emails
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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...
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...
wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
Art Gallery Shows to See in November
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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-...
Slop Evader - Chrome Web Store
An extension for avoiding AI slop
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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
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!
Climate Hacks | Broadcast
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.
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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.
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-...
Go to Red Hook to Heckle Some Oil and Gas Execs
Plus more links for your Tuesday.
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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.
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/...
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...
‘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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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...
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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