Matt Ebb
@mattebb.com
Visual effects, creative coding, generative art / Effects at industrial light and magic / http://mattebb.com
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learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
i’m afraid that’s all gone
i’m afraid that’s all gone
July 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research
i’m afraid that’s all gone
i’m afraid that’s all gone
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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
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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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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 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
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
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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...
🔗 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
September 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
🔗 www.404media.co/hackers-thre...
Ryoji Ikeda last night 🖤
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ryoji Ikeda last night 🖤
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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.
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 Presents: The 25 Most Influential Creators of 2025.
List: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
List: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
August 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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.
It’s a valuable label. Content is a very specific type of culture, one formatted according to the algorithms that determine its success.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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.
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
May 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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...
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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...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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
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
May 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Missed this when it came out, amazing stuff. Hard times for the CIE XYy horseshoe www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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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...
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
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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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.
Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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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.
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.
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
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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.
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.
Love how after all the arguments of this stuff being transformative, intelligent, creative, Sam Altman just comes out with “haha ripoff machine go brrrrrr”
March 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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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Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately
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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...
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
March 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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...
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...
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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...
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
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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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...
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
March 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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...
www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...
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# avoid the nightmare bicycle
March 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
# avoid the nightmare bicycle
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
I know it’s a bit uncool to linkedin-post on here but we’re hiring at work, I’ve been looking at quite a lot of showreels, so I wrote up some tips for making a great fx reel #vfx
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Creating a stand-out Effects reel
As a VFX artist, your showreel is one of the most important tools in the job search process. Whether you’re trying to break into the industry or looking for a new role, having a stand-out showreel can...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I know it’s a bit uncool to linkedin-post on here but we’re hiring at work, I’ve been looking at quite a lot of showreels, so I wrote up some tips for making a great fx reel #vfx
www.linkedin.com/pulse/creati...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/creati...