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

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/

Climate Hacks | Broadcast Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.

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!

A circular projection with text that reads: "WHAT GETS TO COUNT AS INTELLIGENCE".

A shelf with two sculptures in it from "Being Radiotropic". The sculptures contain routers that alter their behavior based on external factors. The top sculpture includes a rock, the bottom a candle.

Wide shot with 30 or so phones on a wall, cords dangling. Each phone is a node in a botnet that clicks on ads in news stories about climate change.

Close shot with 30 or so phones on a wall, cords dangling. Each phone is a node in a botnet that clicks on ads in news stories about climate change.

Video installation for "The Faces", a grid of NYPD cop faces scraped from the web.

Video installation for "The Zooms", zooming shots from leaked police helicopter surveillance footage.

Installation for "Cold Call" -- a call center where audience members are invited to call execs in the oil and gas industries and waste as much of their time as possible. Features a tiled wallpaper with exec faces on it, and three desks with computers, headphones and desk lamps.

Gallery wall with around 15 square black and white prints with differing borders. The prints are carbon credit certificates for "Offset" -- each representing the carbon savings calculated from different instances of industrial sabotage.

Gallery wall with square black and white prints with differing borders. The prints are carbon credit certificates for "Offset" -- each representing the carbon savings calculated from different instances of industrial sabotage.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a stylized earth in the background and in the foreground a scale with sugar being poured on one side of the scale and a measuring tape on the other side.

Gallery room featuring "Offset" video, a tree in the background and in the foreground a scale with an ipad on one side of the scale and a miniature globe on the other side.

An ipad with with Offset website on it.

A gallery shot featuring two fences draped with fabric.

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.

Jobs | City University of New York

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/...

The Golden Age of 'Sesame Street' Animation Plus: news.

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

Image showing a balance scale with money on one side and leaves on the other, overlaid onto a simulated view of the earth. Text shares exhibition opening details.

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

Residency | Pioneer Works Each September, we select residents through an open call. Aided by a jury of experts and Alumni Residents, Pioneer Works welcomes residents who work outside existing models and “norms” of their field ...

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.

Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave — Mozilla staff's tracking overwhelmed by Intel crash reports, team disables the functio... The saga continues.

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...

Designer / Senior Designer About Pioneer WorksPioneer Works is an admission-free cultural center in Brooklyn, New York dedicated to experimentation, education, and production acro...

Dream job - PioneerWorks is looking for a senior designer. Great Brooklyn based arts org and space. Get it.. pioneerworks.org/jobs/designer

There's still time to apply to be in the first cohort of this experimental school being launched by @shannonmattern.bsky.social with the NY metro library council. Dont snooze on this. Apps close tomorrow!

Washington DC is making public buses free forever Analysts say D.C.’s free fare system offers a good test case on how public transit can be reshaped for a post-pandemic future.

I’ll just leave this here, for reasons. You can drop this into the replies of car guys if you wish.

fortune.com/2022/12/12/w...

There is an all-out global assault on the idea that government should help ppl & that ppl should help one another.

That's what ZM represents.

Elites of both parties in the US are engaged in this assault. Their goal: turn "the masses" against each other & prevent them from expecting better of gov.

Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

6.25.2025 | A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom — Millennial Money with Katie

This is such a great conversation with the always brilliant
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social - moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed

Well, well, well, responsible AI you say? Google has been found to under-report its emissions. Since 2019 their emission have risen 1,515%! And when was the biggest jump? Why in the most recent year of course because of AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...