Sam Lavigne
- Just over a week and a half to go see my show with @tega.bsky.social at Pioneer Works before it closes!
- 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...
- it's pretty crazy
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- 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...
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- Most carbon footprint calculators determine carbon impacts based on consumption and lifestyle. But through the Offset project I got interested in the relationship between income and emissions: is it possible to calculate impacts based solely on income levels? And what would those calculations imply?
- wow the times published a mostly-positive review of my show with @tega.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...
- 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
- 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!
- 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.
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- (All photos by Dan Bradica Studio)
- A lot going on today! But if you're free and in NY, I'm having an opening with @tega.bsky.social tonight at Pioneer Works - 7pm to 9pm.
- For people in LA: fucklapd.com
- btw, the amazing 50-a.org now lets you search cops by their faces as well: www.50-a.org/search/image
- I'm on the jury for this open call to fund works opposing tech fascism. Awards are between €1500 and € 7000. Applications due tomorrow! error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
- special thanks to our sponsor
- Very special studio visit today
- It's back! My videobot that creates automated supercuts from C-SPAN videos was killed by Musk, but is alive again on bluesky.
- btw the previous iteration of this bot ran (somewhat) continuously from 2015 to 2023. The old archive can still be seen on twitter at twitter.com/cspanfive or youtube www.youtube.com/@c-spanfive5...
- one of my old favs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcG...
- doing an open studio with Tega Brain tomorrow (Sunday) at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. come commiserate! We'll be there 2pm-5ish. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
- Made a new project called Coppelganger: it uses facial recognition on an archive of ~10,000 publicly available images of NYPD cops to tell you which cop you most resemble. coppelganger.lav.io Find the cop lurking deep within!
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View full threadI feel revulsion towards my coppelganger. Wonderful project Sam.
- Aww thanks
- Update: you can now export a gif of your coppelganger
- (my god, does bluesky not play gifs???)
- Some cop clusters
- co(p)sine similarity (sorry)
- I wrote a bit about the process here: lav.io/notes/explor... As part of the exploration I was able to cluster cop faces by similarity, find the saddest cops in new york, and more!
- Wrote a piece with Tega Brain in e-flux architecture about data and carbon offset schemes. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
- As part of the research for the piece we scraped details about every carbon offset scheme from the major voluntary offset registries, and stuck them up at: offsetarchive.labr.io
- biden/trump: the silent parts www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnvY...
- Join me tomorrow as I attempt to create a facial recognition system capable of identifying NYPD cops. www.screenwalks.com
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- Aww thanks so much!!!
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- Here’s overtime pay for 2023… also enraging! data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Governm...
- Here's a blog post showcasing work students made in my "Infinite Video" class at the School for Poetic Computation. In the class we used command-line tools, Python libraries and various machine learning models to analyze, filter, sort, edit, and compose video with code. lav.io/notes/infini...
- full syllabus with technical notes and examples are here: github.com/antiboredom/... It was a lovely class with a really incredible group of students.
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- Thanks!!
- The words of the super pissed off commuter (trying to get around the JVP protest at Grand Central) who was screaming “Palestine ruins everything! I want to go to Tarrytown!” will forever be seared in my mind.
- A large loaf of bread lay on the table. Father came in with a knife to cut it in half. But even though the knife was big and sharp, and the bread neither too soft nor too hard, the knife could not cut into it. We children looked up at Father in surprise. He said, “Why should you be surprised?"
- Wrote about web scraping as an artistic and political practice for the new journal Critical AI: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
- tormented by apple autocorrecting “mamma mia” to “Mamma Mia”
- I wrote up some notes about my FFmpeg visual command builder, and on how to pick a good test image/video for software projects: lav.io/notes/ffmpeg...
