Eric Sipple
@ericsipple.com
Author of BROKEN MAGIC, MIMESIS. Head of Engineering at Hey Jane. My brain is a beautiful rain of frogs. 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
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Pirating things by indie artists -- and basically every novelist is an indie artist, based on how you get paid -- is a shitty thing to do.
I also thing piracy is a symptom of larger problems, and ultimately we don't really solve anything by eliminating it. The problem is media companies.
I also thing piracy is a symptom of larger problems, and ultimately we don't really solve anything by eliminating it. The problem is media companies.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Pirating things by indie artists -- and basically every novelist is an indie artist, based on how you get paid -- is a shitty thing to do.
I also thing piracy is a symptom of larger problems, and ultimately we don't really solve anything by eliminating it. The problem is media companies.
I also thing piracy is a symptom of larger problems, and ultimately we don't really solve anything by eliminating it. The problem is media companies.
Hellboy 3
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Hellboy 3
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"The beef allows the smoothies" is the kind of thing Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb would yell at Catherine Martin after he kidnaps her and puts her in the pit
Trump: "Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys. They could be fat, but they're still MAHA. They've been fattened on a steady diet of grass, beef, to allow the smoothies and all the other things they have been eating for this occasion."
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"The beef allows the smoothies" is the kind of thing Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb would yell at Catherine Martin after he kidnaps her and puts her in the pit
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
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this is my great frustration: we always have to find a second reason to cancel transphobes. like, it's a valid conversation about whether the wizard lady's books are antisemitic or not, but we already have the smoking gun. why isn't the transphobia alone enough to convict?
"you can't say I'm bad just because I'm a transphobe" counterpoint: fuck off
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is my great frustration: we always have to find a second reason to cancel transphobes. like, it's a valid conversation about whether the wizard lady's books are antisemitic or not, but we already have the smoking gun. why isn't the transphobia alone enough to convict?
Happy "eat a whole can of chickpeas for lunch" day to those who celebrate
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Happy "eat a whole can of chickpeas for lunch" day to those who celebrate
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"Raffi I don't understand why you hate depositions"
And, here is Bovino's third day of depositions, November 4: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
The lawyers:
Locke Bowman for the plaintiffs.
Sarmad Khojasteh for the government.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Raffi I don't understand why you hate depositions"
Hoping some AI experts take on this article, because it seems messily written and reasoned through, conflating "we need to start considering how to evaluate and treat AI consciousness" (valid) with "AI might be conscious now" (hrm). nymag.com/intelligence...
Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hoping some AI experts take on this article, because it seems messily written and reasoned through, conflating "we need to start considering how to evaluate and treat AI consciousness" (valid) with "AI might be conscious now" (hrm). nymag.com/intelligence...
life is like a hurricane
here in
truckburg
race cars lasers aeroplanes
it's a
truck blur
Still works, accepted.
here in
truckburg
race cars lasers aeroplanes
it's a
truck blur
Still works, accepted.
Little known fact: the DuckTales characters are from Duckburg, while the Transformers characters are from Truckburg.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
life is like a hurricane
here in
truckburg
race cars lasers aeroplanes
it's a
truck blur
Still works, accepted.
here in
truckburg
race cars lasers aeroplanes
it's a
truck blur
Still works, accepted.
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Hard to separate this iteration of fascism/authoritarianism from Big Tech. Big Tech has funded it; Big Tech's guiding ethos "move fast and break things" and "overconfidence in technocracy" informs how it governs; Big Tech's constant rent-seeking took over the federal government.
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hard to separate this iteration of fascism/authoritarianism from Big Tech. Big Tech has funded it; Big Tech's guiding ethos "move fast and break things" and "overconfidence in technocracy" informs how it governs; Big Tech's constant rent-seeking took over the federal government.
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wrote about AI slop fraud in journalism, which is successful not because AI is magic superintelligence, but because journalism has already been hollowed out and turned into slop. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/journalist...
Journalists Have Been Turning Into AI Slop For Years
ChatGPT is the ideal employee
www.everythingishorrible.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
wrote about AI slop fraud in journalism, which is successful not because AI is magic superintelligence, but because journalism has already been hollowed out and turned into slop. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/journalist...
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I think one of the things I am getting extremely tired of is the expectation that I can't describe things the way they are. I don't know what to say to the idea that calling Trump a Fascist is going to hurt Dems' electoral chances, but I just don't see a political movement enjoying long term success
OPINION: "Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party’s leaders would do well to realize that." — Jonathan Zimmerman
To defeat Trump, stop calling him names
Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party's leaders would do well to realize that, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I think one of the things I am getting extremely tired of is the expectation that I can't describe things the way they are. I don't know what to say to the idea that calling Trump a Fascist is going to hurt Dems' electoral chances, but I just don't see a political movement enjoying long term success
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every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity
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The amount of internet users that have been revealed to be the product of botfarms and astroturfing campaigns is depressing but not surprising, but also I find this weirdly freeing?
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The amount of internet users that have been revealed to be the product of botfarms and astroturfing campaigns is depressing but not surprising, but also I find this weirdly freeing?
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
This is missing a pretty important step where Google itself already had destroyed its core product to chase ad revenue, and had degraded its search results so badly that it was making it impossible even for seasoned marketers to reliably work with its conventions.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is missing a pretty important step where Google itself already had destroyed its core product to chase ad revenue, and had degraded its search results so badly that it was making it impossible even for seasoned marketers to reliably work with its conventions.
As ever: do it. Do it right now, while you're weak, wrong-footed by your own actions, watching your other cases get thrown out of court, and with even a lot of your own party thinking you're lying about affordability. Do it at this exact moment.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
As ever: do it. Do it right now, while you're weak, wrong-footed by your own actions, watching your other cases get thrown out of court, and with even a lot of your own party thinking you're lying about affordability. Do it at this exact moment.
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ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
Classic. A bunch of ghouls running around shouting DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS at college kids but backing the president giving a rando-pardon to someone financing the organization.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Classic. A bunch of ghouls running around shouting DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS at college kids but backing the president giving a rando-pardon to someone financing the organization.
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We as a country must dedicate our entire national energy to making sure that Ryan Murphy does not make a mini series about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We as a country must dedicate our entire national energy to making sure that Ryan Murphy does not make a mini series about Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza.
Went to see if this was real and it got even better with this desperate attempt to do cleanup.
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Went to see if this was real and it got even better with this desperate attempt to do cleanup.
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
xAI's data centres are one of the few sites in the world where we actually know why they exist and the outputs they produce.
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
So everyone local life shortened by the choking air pollution from the fossil fuelled power plant built to run this site: we know it's for shit like this
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