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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When you just move the bad food around your plate but nod and smile and pretend like you’re chewing so no one gets hurt.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
When you just move the bad food around your plate but nod and smile and pretend like you’re chewing so no one gets hurt.
Pan banging
Recipe: Pan-banging chocolate chunk cookies theprovince.com/life/food/re...
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Pan banging
People won’t stop defending Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY gutting the ending on behalf of giving Rita Moreno the most critical song and jamming it into a pointless middle scene and I will die on the hill in opposition.
It’s a fine film otherwise.
It’s a fine film otherwise.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
People won’t stop defending Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY gutting the ending on behalf of giving Rita Moreno the most critical song and jamming it into a pointless middle scene and I will die on the hill in opposition.
It’s a fine film otherwise.
It’s a fine film otherwise.
I mean yeah coding assistants will probably be involved but this is not what steam is asking for.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I mean yeah coding assistants will probably be involved but this is not what steam is asking for.
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So, here’s the thing: if you want to get into a stranger’s mentions, say stock nonsense to be purposefully inflammatory, do them the favor of not running the dullest troll playbook in existence.
I’m giving back what I’m getting. Give better, get better. Be a jerk… well, I’m better at it.
I’m giving back what I’m getting. Give better, get better. Be a jerk… well, I’m better at it.
You must be lovely in real life!
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So, here’s the thing: if you want to get into a stranger’s mentions, say stock nonsense to be purposefully inflammatory, do them the favor of not running the dullest troll playbook in existence.
I’m giving back what I’m getting. Give better, get better. Be a jerk… well, I’m better at it.
I’m giving back what I’m getting. Give better, get better. Be a jerk… well, I’m better at it.
A proposition: get bent and eat shit, bootlicker.
A lot of "rightly angry people" could also do well to think about why it's adopted by a billion people worldwide, though. Which also calls into question the first point you made, I don't think it's true at all that people at large "hate this shit". I think some people on bluesky do.
November 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A proposition: get bent and eat shit, bootlicker.
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It's also such a narrow case for where it's successful - most engineers are FAR from using it in that way, and just today we're talking about a full-time AI user who submitted a 13K LOC PR on a project that he didn't even bother to read.
Failing to acknowledge that in a software context is a choice
Failing to acknowledge that in a software context is a choice
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's also such a narrow case for where it's successful - most engineers are FAR from using it in that way, and just today we're talking about a full-time AI user who submitted a 13K LOC PR on a project that he didn't even bother to read.
Failing to acknowledge that in a software context is a choice
Failing to acknowledge that in a software context is a choice
I love that people are still taking the bold stance of “defend the most funded industry in America”.
Simon isn’t a bad faith actor and really does try not to flame but I think tech people need to show a lot more empathy for why most of the world hates this shit, and for good reason.
Simon isn’t a bad faith actor and really does try not to flame but I think tech people need to show a lot more empathy for why most of the world hates this shit, and for good reason.
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I love that people are still taking the bold stance of “defend the most funded industry in America”.
Simon isn’t a bad faith actor and really does try not to flame but I think tech people need to show a lot more empathy for why most of the world hates this shit, and for good reason.
Simon isn’t a bad faith actor and really does try not to flame but I think tech people need to show a lot more empathy for why most of the world hates this shit, and for good reason.
cc @mitsuhiko.at r u still in love with ai or are you finally aware it sux
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
cc @mitsuhiko.at r u still in love with ai or are you finally aware it sux
WHY. SO. SCARIOUS?
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
WHY. SO. SCARIOUS?
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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JD Vance loves spreading 16th century pro-genocide propaganda so much
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
JD Vance loves spreading 16th century pro-genocide propaganda so much
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Who says capitalism can't innovate when OpenAI is out here inventing consumer liability protection law from first principles
OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT
The case is ongoing.
www.theverge.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Who says capitalism can't innovate when OpenAI is out here inventing consumer liability protection law from first principles
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The thing AI defenders are doing their best to dodge, talk around, or totally handwave away is that, even if they're correct that the tech is Legit Useful For Many: is it still useful *for the actual cost of its operation*?
The answers to this largely start and stop with "well it'll get cheaper".
The answers to this largely start and stop with "well it'll get cheaper".
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The thing AI defenders are doing their best to dodge, talk around, or totally handwave away is that, even if they're correct that the tech is Legit Useful For Many: is it still useful *for the actual cost of its operation*?
The answers to this largely start and stop with "well it'll get cheaper".
The answers to this largely start and stop with "well it'll get cheaper".
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The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The "reporter" lady fucking sources and running catch and kill ops is a huge part of the issue with journalism but so is the corrupt sack of shit ex who knew about all this and said nothing till he felt personally betrayed and is now tossing out tidbits in planned instalments to have you pay him
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
Hey all, I'm curious: If you go to the post this was a reply to, is this message showing up under it at all? I'd been getting steady likes on it, then they stopped all at once and I went to look and I'm not seeing this even in the hidden replies.
Sincerely, I think you should think a lot more about why people are mad about the topic you came in and addressed glibly, and intentionally or not, the same way lots of pro-AI trolls do, on a platform with a lot of people with *very* good reason to have a more negative experience with LLMs than you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hey all, I'm curious: If you go to the post this was a reply to, is this message showing up under it at all? I'd been getting steady likes on it, then they stopped all at once and I went to look and I'm not seeing this even in the hidden replies.
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Was curious if "Bluesky is so hostile!" AI guy was doing the "Oh they suck so bad there!" game back on Twitter and, uh...
We need to put a ban on tech people making references to easy-to-understand science fiction that they still somehow do not understand.
We need to put a ban on tech people making references to easy-to-understand science fiction that they still somehow do not understand.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Was curious if "Bluesky is so hostile!" AI guy was doing the "Oh they suck so bad there!" game back on Twitter and, uh...
We need to put a ban on tech people making references to easy-to-understand science fiction that they still somehow do not understand.
We need to put a ban on tech people making references to easy-to-understand science fiction that they still somehow do not understand.
Complaining to my friends about the time I walked into a biker bar and got beaten up for shouting, "So, are people here still obsessed with motorcycles or have you all grown up yet?"
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Complaining to my friends about the time I walked into a biker bar and got beaten up for shouting, "So, are people here still obsessed with motorcycles or have you all grown up yet?"
I avoid going all the way up to this line when it comes to small, indie artists because the number of sales there are so low that the outcomes of small numbers of lost sales may have bigger impacts than they do at a, like, Simon and Schuster level, but this is true of basically all piracy studies.
Calling authors petit bourgeoisie is indeed insane. We are artisans and we deserve to profit from our labor.
That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.
That said, digital piracy has never been shown to represent actual lost sales, and may in fact DRIVE sales. I think authors should cool out about it.
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I avoid going all the way up to this line when it comes to small, indie artists because the number of sales there are so low that the outcomes of small numbers of lost sales may have bigger impacts than they do at a, like, Simon and Schuster level, but this is true of basically all piracy studies.
I still don't know what a monad is*, so today, it's the philosophical concept of making self-defeating decisions in order to project an air of superiority over others.
* yes i'm bringing the bit back
* yes i'm bringing the bit back
If I'm understanding this Cloudflare thing right, it looks like the smug use† of monads took down the entire internet?
†is there any other kind?
†is there any other kind?
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I still don't know what a monad is*, so today, it's the philosophical concept of making self-defeating decisions in order to project an air of superiority over others.
* yes i'm bringing the bit back
* yes i'm bringing the bit back