Tega Brain

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.

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.

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

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

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

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

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.

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

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Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io

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...

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.”

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/...

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...

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

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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/