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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · 23d

Congratulations Francesco and Ton- a well deserved break a long time coming! Maybe the next decades be even more successful

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 29d

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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404 Media @404media.co · Sep 2

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

🔗 www.404media.co/hackers-thre...

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

www.404media.co

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · Sep 1

Ryoji Ikeda last night 🖤

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · Aug 26

I really hope we’re not dropping the "content" from "content creator".

It’s a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Aug 26

Rolling Stone Presents: The 25 Most Influential Creators of 2025.

List: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · Aug 9

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Jun 22

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · Jun 14

At the Sydney Film Festival many years ago I was walking behind Hugo Weaving to go to the bathroom. He wasn’t paying attention and went into the Women’s room - only to swiftly come back out and give me an awkward look.

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · Jun 13

See you tomorrow!

Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · May 29

Quite an honour to have some of our team’s work from the past few years featured alongside some of the most iconic shots in vfx history ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=649P...

Industrial Light & Magic: 50 Years of Innovation

YouTube video by Industrial Light & Magic

m.youtube.com

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · May 21

Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

Brian Eno Calls On Microsoft To Cease Partnership With Israel, Will Donate Windows ‘95 Chime Fee To Victims In Gaza

Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the...

www.stereogum.com

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · May 8

And the paper, targeting and stimulating individual retina cones cells with lasers 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

www.science.org

Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · May 8

Missed this when it came out, amazing stuff. Hard times for the CIE XYy horseshoe www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color

The ecstasy of “olo”

www.theatlantic.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · May 7

May these words stick to Israel's already blood-soaked history for generations into the far, far future. May our children, and their children, know the term "never again" to include this evil. May those who allowed this to happen feel eternal shame.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing

www.theguardian.com

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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be · Apr 27

Work-in-progress image in a continuous exploration of generative geometry. A vertical structure made of interconnected rectangular forms, 5 straight angled ribbons weave from the top to the bottom regularly switching sides and interleaving the structure. Colors: various unsaturated shades of soft green with black outlines

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Apr 24

Everything I do for a living is based on this. The things you find yourself pursuing as distractions from the things you think you're supposed to be pursuing might actually be your destiny.

Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · Apr 24

Words to live by.

Screenshot of a tweet by @louisethebaker

The text reads, "I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted."

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adamswaab.bsky.social @adamswaab.bsky.social · Apr 18

Procedural nebula, created in @sidefx.bsky.social . Render engine: KarmaXPU.

#cg #art #space #nebula

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

www.theregister.com

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Matt Ebb @mattebb.com · Mar 30

Love how after all the arguments of this stuff being transformative, intelligent, creative, Sam Altman just comes out with “haha ripoff machine go brrrrrr”

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Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · Mar 27

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

scene from Porco Rosso; a man in a blue uniform sits next to an anthropomorphic pig in a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and hat; the pig is saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · Mar 24

Israeli forces attacked and detained the co-director of No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, in the occupied West Bank.

The Oscar-winning film documents Masafer Yatta’s struggle against Israeli demolitions, amid Israel’s escalating bombardment and mass atrocities in Palestine.

apnews.com/article/no-o...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say

Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.

apnews.com

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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · Mar 19

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.

Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »

Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...

www.lemonde.fr

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Mar 17

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:

www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

www.404media.co

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Leander Herzog @leanderherzog.ch · Mar 5

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