Apply apply! Learn from @shannonmattern.bsky.social in this interdisciplinary community learning project from the Metropolitan New York Library Council.. Nominal fee, it'll be fantastic: metro.org/news/search-...

Karen Hao brilliant on the OpenAI scam www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4hZ...

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.

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.

Just over a week and a half to go see my show with @tega.bsky.social at Pioneer Works before it closes!

Dream job alert.. Yale is seeking an Assistant Professor in Graphic Design: www.art.yale.edu/news/seeking...

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?

“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.”

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

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

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/...

Finally, Elon has made a change to his social media platform that I approve of: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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

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

The only space travel news I’m remotely interested in… www.abc.net.au/news/science... cc @eayers0.bsky.social

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it's pretty crazy

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...

Slop Evader: Search the internet before AI. By @tega.bsky.social tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

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...

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-...

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 😱

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!

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

👀 Hotgirlsforcuomo.com

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

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

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.

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/

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!

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.

My department at Hunter College, which combines studio art & art history, has posted a job listing for an assistant professor of ceramics. The application deadline is in two weeks, on October 1st. Please share widely, thanks! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

gorgeous exploration of how sesame street / the children’s television workshop made a home for independent animators

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/...

Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.

people who complain about those of us who are anti-climate doom fail to ever mention that we have been trying their approach for decades and we have lost people cannot be scared into change. the proof that it doesn’t work is that it fucking hasn’t

Pioneer Works just announced their open call for art and music residents for next year. Get those apps in.. pioneerworks.org/residency

*taps sign*

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

Wondering whether, on unionized campuses like mine, offloading grading to the LMS/LLM could constitute faculty breach of contract? Even tho admin pushes this slop, I fear usage could be weaponized against faculty. Yet another reason I’m pushing for an ethical tech policy in my senate work next yr

Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social. Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89 In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:

Something monstrous about seeing more and more news confirming intentional deliberate starvation in Gaza and still see people center themselves by saying it makes them ‘uncomfortable’ to acknowledge that this is what it is

Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now

Thank you to @melhogan.bsky.social for introducing me to the brilliant work of Paul Schutze critiquing the idea of sustainable ai.

The European heatwave caused a spike in Firefox crash reports in due to a certain type of Intel CPU overheating. Turns out our computational hardware and software is also finely tuned to the long gone holocene. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...