Tega Brain

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...

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

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-...

Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the "Quasi-Religious" Push for Artificial Intelligence YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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 wasn't aware of the issues with Mumsnet and transphobia, but now I've looked into it, I've decided to remove the Mumsnet search from the extension. Thanks for pointing this out!

'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.

“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' 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.

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

Thanks for the write up @404media.co

Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter

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/...

X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...

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

Howard University AI Panel YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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

Moss survived nine months in space outside the ISS before returning to Earth Moss has the potential to provide food for astronauts of the future, according to a study that exposed one of Earth's oldest plants to the extremes of space travel.

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

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

:(

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

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 — Tega Brain A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...

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

A graph showing household income vs emissions

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...

Art Gallery Shows to See in November

wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

email jubilee :)

Slop Evader - Chrome Web Store An extension for avoiding AI slop

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-...