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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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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 2h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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 · 3h

Tesla drivers getting the Jared Leto Assault they deserve.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

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.
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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 · 4h

“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 · 6h

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 · 4h

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 · 7h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

The thing we all got wrong when giving the reasons why billionaires shouldn't exist is that the top one would turn out to be that being a billionaire eventually gives you a diagnosable psychotic disorder.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 8h

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5h

I think we need to be crystal clear about how Trump's creation of a nationwide police force—loyal only to him—threatens to create a feedback loop of lawlessness in which our constitutional right to dissent may vanish. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It is now beyond debate that one of Donald Trump’s key goals is the creation of a national police force that is loyal to him alone. To that end, the president has repeatedly federalized the National Guard—often over governors’ objections—and deployed troops to invade blue cities whose residents oppose his administration. He has also transformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a kind of secret police that targets, with especially sadistic brutality, journalists, protesters, and others exercising their First Amendment rights. Trump’s multifaceted attack on the Constitution creates a feedback loop of lawlessness: He first erodes the structural limits on his authority, then exploits his newly unchecked power to trample the people’s freedom to dissent.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 5h

this is only "leverage" if Democrats, watching the administration continue to play this hand badly, choose to rescue them

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

I don't think anyone, ever, in the history of Hollywood has flopped twice with the same movie.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

Smart politics by the Dems for a change. Wildly dumb politics for the party in the middle of trying to get the national guard to murder protesters.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

Looking at the blockbuster flops of the 2000s AKA One Leto After Another.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

Hahahahah so cool

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 5h

I do think it's pretty great but I don't know how anyone could get anywhere near the levels Daft Punk did.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 6h

DEFINITIVE Daft Punk album ranking:

Discovery
Random Access Memories
Tron: Legacy
Homework
Human After All

Top three are all S-tier works.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 6h

The Tron: Legacy soundtrack isn't just the best film score of the 2000s, it's also probably the single greatest Album To Work To of the same period.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 6h

Jamelle gets it. bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

listen, man, we’ve been cool on the internet for years. but this…this is a bridge too far.

Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 6h

Cards on the table: Their worst album is Human After All and it's a pretty big step down from the next one on the list.

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