Tega Brain
@tega.bsky.social
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Reposted by Tega Brain
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'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.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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/...
Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts
Clever corvids become newest weapon in Södertälje’s war against street litter
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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/...
Reposted by Tega Brain
Finally, Elon has made a change to his social media platform that I approve of: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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...
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Finally, Elon has made a change to his social media platform that I approve of: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Reposted by Tega Brain
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
The Good Life
enron.email
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
Reposted by Tega Brain
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
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
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.
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The only space travel news I’m remotely interested in… www.abc.net.au/news/science... cc @eayers0.bsky.social
Reposted by Tega Brain
Reposted by Tega Brain
![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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dmqtun7zjrxy4f7fbaobpxj/bafkreicx7wdninrhwcc2spzp2xrb2ggnyq6gwhklzvwb5dblzaa5pxs2qy@jpeg)
Reposted by Tega Brain
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...
antiboredom.github.io/epstein-emai...
Epstein Emails
antiboredom.github.io
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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...
antiboredom.github.io/epstein-emai...
Reposted by Tega Brain
Reposted by Tega Brain
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...
lav.io/notes/carbon...
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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...
lav.io/notes/carbon...
Reposted by Tega Brain
wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
Art Gallery Shows to See in November
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
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-...
Slop Evader - Chrome Web Store
An extension for avoiding AI slop
chromewebstore.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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-...
Reposted by Tega Brain
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 😱
October 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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 😱
Reposted by Tega Brain
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!
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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!
Reposted by Tega Brain
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
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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
Reposted by Tega Brain
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Reposted by Tega Brain
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
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
October 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Reposted by Tega Brain
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
![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
Reposted by Tega Brain
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.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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/
Modules – Critical Experiences
criticalexperiences.itp.io
September 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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/
Reposted by Tega Brain
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.
pioneerworks.org
September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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!
Reposted by Tega Brain
Reposted by Tega Brain
