julia kaganskiy

Also, this exhibit is currently on view at BioBAT arts space and has some local artists (including Elizabeth): www.biobatartspace.com/exhibitions

Elizabeth Henaff over at NYU is both artist and scientist. Last year she and Tega Brian ran a community oriented arts program looking at flood risk areas in NYC. floodlabs.nyc/portfolio/ar...

To be fair, there are many, many others! These are just top of mind. Also just thought of Trevor Paglen, Juan Covelli and Nora Al Badri. Lots of artists creating their own Lora’s, which I’m not sure if that’s what you meant?

Sarah Meyohas, Cloud of Petals. Casey Reas, Earthly Delights. I believe Entangled Others have also done this with real and synthetic data for most of their works. And of course Mat & Holly!

GovWayback Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine

Some friends created this handy tool with the help of Wayback Machine. Access archives of now deleted U.S. Gov websites pre-Jan 20, 2025: govwayback.com

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder on the 2025 coup: “The people who now dominate the executive branch of the government…are acting, quite deliberately, to destroy the nation.” [snyder.substack.com]

After several years of working almost exclusively in Europe, I somehow forgot how hostile American museums are to digital art.

Part of me is sympathetic, given the US proximity to the technocracy. But I still don’t love having to defend the legitimacy of my work every single day.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Well that’s a terrifying prospect.

I sure hope Dems have been studying the Project2025 playbook and coming up with a smart strategy because it’s not like they didn’t spell out their plan back in 2023…

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

The Ugliest Thing San Francisco Ever Built: Lessons for AI Infrastructure | TechPolicy.Press Eryk Salvaggio asks, are we again poised to value technological infrastructure over our shared social infrastructure?

Totally taking credit for writing this article that warned against hasty investments into AI infrastructure less than a week ago www.techpolicy.press/the-ugliest-...

Post-Cognitive Income Should AI exceed human cognitive abilities, UBI alone won’t suffice. We need to build new structures of mutualization to preserve dignity and strengthen our communities.

What will humans do in the age of “mental obsolescence”?

www.combinationsmag.com/post-cogniti...

Spread Information not panic When reporting or signal boosting potential threats: provide as much information as possible! S.A.L.U.T.E. Size/Strength "5 to 6 Armed Agitators" Actions/Activity "Harassing random people on the move" Location & Direction "Manhattan, East of Central Park, E 97th St" Uniform/Clothes "Dark Jackets, ballcaps" Time & Date of Observation "8:32 PM June01" Equipment & Weapons "They have Body Armor and Pepper spray" Not a useful tweet: "proudboys spotted" "Where? When? What are they doing? How Many? What are they carrying?" Use your Judgement!

The threat of ICE has tons of people on high alert, the result is claims of ICE seen without firm or specific info people can actually use — & sometimes, no ICE at all.

It’s never “ICE spotted in Queens,” but “4 SUVs labeled DHS seen parked on 57th & 59th in Maspeth at 2:34pm.”

Be specific!

Just bought a couple of great prints from “Grief and Hope” a fundraiser for those affected by the LA fires: whitelabeleditions.com/collections/...

Ok, I made it here.

Does this mean I can finally delete my other social media accounts?