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Eric Sipple

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Author of BROKEN MAGIC, MIMESIS. Head of Engineering at Hey Jane. My brain is a beautiful rain of frogs. https://linktr.ee/saalon

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · Sep 5

On September 24th, I'll be releasing a piece with one of my bolder theses: That Glen Morgan and James Wong are the innovators of what we consider Modern Television. Their work from The X-Files, to Space: Above and Beyond, through Millennium represents the most influential-on-writers work of the era.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

What you're getting from an LLM is a statistical approximation of what the answer would be to a statistical approximation of the question.

This is why prompt engineering is fake. The prompt (and any input data) is just a suggestion - and helps fool you into thinking that your question was answered.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 6h

Just a reminder that Trump accepted a $400M jet from Qatar, now being upgraded for hundreds of millions more by U.S. taxpayers, to eventually be transferred to his presidential library.

Pentagon agrees to host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots at Idaho air base

Pentagon agrees to build Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho as part of the ongoing U.S.-Qatar partnership, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Friday.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

That’s a sincere question, not rhetorical. I do not know.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

Has there been another moment in American history of this level of conflict between the lower courts and SCOTUS?

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

There is a long history of adventurous, bold episodes of shows having horrible IMDB scores, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone involved in modern media critique. There isn't a single good reason to reference them, even when you're correct about the overall point.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

The worst-rated episode on IMDB of this season of Rick and Morty is the clear best of the first half I've seen, because IMDB scores are worthless trash.

I do not say this to defend real critiques of the Peacemaker finale. I say it because you should never use IMDB scores for anything.

Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 7h

The ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Finale Is Its Lowest-Scored Episode By Far

www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

The ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Finale Is Its Lowest-Scored Episode By Far

Peacemaker's season 2 finale has been rated by fans as the worst of the series to date. Does it actually deserve that?

www.forbes.com

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

Is putting the weight of the US government behind the celebration of a man whose greatest historical legacy is jumping into a genocide with both feet, in opposition to the renaming of the day after the victims of that violence, erasure of indigenous people? Who can say?

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 7h

"some experts say"

NPR @npr.org · 10h

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans. n.pr/4h2pwRc

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 9h

It's so strange to imagine a world without the Dr. Demento show.

All things must end, and he's had an incredible run, but it's still sad.

Plus ça change and such, I guess.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 9h

Reasonable suspicion is when you're visibly afraid of masked, armed men looking for any reason to assault and arrest you.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Unfortunately, they can't do that without a positive vision for the country that isn't "return to normal", because normal sucks at this point and no one wants normal.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Everyone hates the status quo, so arguments that sound like "defend the status quo" are meaningless to toxic to a lot of people. Given a choice between authoritarianism and the path they saw their lives on, they likely would accept authoritarianism. Dems need to demonstrate why that's a fake choice.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

And to a degree, they are right to assess that the message on its own sails past low salience voters. They think the government doesn't serve them, and the government is democracy, and thus "protect democracy" is not a call to arms. Where Dems are failing is in connecting material impacts to fascism

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a defense of perpetually feckless Dems, but I bet Dems feel they ran on "Trump is fascist and undermining democracy" and they lost the election and so are giving up that message.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 1d

I wish my party had the balls John Thune imagines. It would be pretty great.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Tesla drivers getting the Jared Leto Assault they deserve.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

I did, though, get some fun out of the podcast. Specifically, the extremely On Brand interaction between Jennifer Holland And Her Manchild Husband arguing about what the best song of the episode was.

James Gunn smiling, saying, "which is Fucking My Heart in the Ass"

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 1d

Courtesy of Link himself

Fund Friday post :

Happy Friday Yall. Post fundraising links, cashapp links, whichever campaign needing help on . ♥️

Screenshot of a text message conversation on a purple background. The first message from AJ Link at 7:48 AM reads: “Howdy pals. Can I ask for a favor. If anyone has capacity or time today can they do a fund Friday post. I know lots of people need help.” This message has a heart reaction. The second message, also at 7:48 AM, replies: “Obviously what everyone does with their CPU is sacred. So no pressure.“

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Same, I'm *really* hoping that the reason for holding back isn't Peacemaker Will Continue In Man of Tomorrow. Like you, I'll watch any focused-on-these-people television rebrands, though.

I listened to his post-show podcast and he's being Very Cagey about it all. Sigh.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

The argument could be that Peacemaker has ended, because Chris has grown behind being Peacemaker, so the show is going to just change in some fundamental way? Dunno, but I don't like not knowing how I'm getting next steps with these lovely losers!

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

I'm trying to figure out which of the following is happening, and it may be multi-select:

1. Peacemaker In Sanctuary is in Superman so they can't announce anything until after that
2. Peacemaker is going to change name in some way (become Checkmate?)
3. Characters scatter across other properties

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 1d

Cena's got press engagement rules in his contract that include getting a wardrobe change into the slickest shit in his closet, it seems.