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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Eric Sipple
@ericsipple.com
· Dec 9
The headline for the experience online that I cultivate is Cloud Yells At Old Man.
The worst thing about this AI craze is that it's put everyone whose very normal, standard, how-to-assess-any-technology "maybe we should wait to see how it shakes out" approach is the crazypants one, holding back progress against a demand to "find ways" to use it - something you never do with tools.
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The worst thing about this AI craze is that it's put everyone whose very normal, standard, how-to-assess-any-technology "maybe we should wait to see how it shakes out" approach is the crazypants one, holding back progress against a demand to "find ways" to use it - something you never do with tools.
The Pitt: it’s real television.
February 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The Pitt: it’s real television.
This is a very interesting study on the use of AI coding and how it impacts skill development. Use of AI improved productivity somewhat, but not materially. Some of the reasons for non-AI coders going slower, though, was learning about the library they were using. arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...
arxiv.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This is a very interesting study on the use of AI coding and how it impacts skill development. Use of AI improved productivity somewhat, but not materially. Some of the reasons for non-AI coders going slower, though, was learning about the library they were using. arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
Every few weeks, this guys gets on a podcast to tell us all he'd like everyone to be unemployed serfs and that it's his software that's going to do it.
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Every few weeks, this guys gets on a podcast to tell us all he'd like everyone to be unemployed serfs and that it's his software that's going to do it.
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Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.
Ah cool
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ah cool
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🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent
In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.
thenevadaindependent.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:33 AM
🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...
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Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots
OpenAI fired one of its top safety execs, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
www.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots
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You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
You don’t need a traumatic or tragic story to deserve abortion care.
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
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My 4 year old nephew wants to build the “fastest rocket ship ever to Jupiter” and you don’t see any New York Times articles about that
insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
My 4 year old nephew wants to build the “fastest rocket ship ever to Jupiter” and you don’t see any New York Times articles about that
It's petty bad that legal repercussions for this kind of thing are mediated by political victories because this kind of contempt for legal processes should just be Punished By Default.
Bondi is now just straight up ignoring questions from Democratic members
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
It's petty bad that legal repercussions for this kind of thing are mediated by political victories because this kind of contempt for legal processes should just be Punished By Default.
RIP James. Fuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX...
February 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
RIP James. Fuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX...
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A technology absolutely ready for prime time.
RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.
www.404media.co
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
A technology absolutely ready for prime time.
Chris, this is from *yesterday* using Opus 4.6. Please, please, PLEASE stop confusing "impressive" with "broadly useful".
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Chris, this is from *yesterday* using Opus 4.6. Please, please, PLEASE stop confusing "impressive" with "broadly useful".
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It's amazing how the administration lies about absolutely everything
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
It's amazing how the administration lies about absolutely everything
It is both true that we need deep conversations about what it will mean if we create digital consciousness + how we should treat the life we create, AND that right now we have a pattern matching bot that can't count the number of letters in a word reliably no matter how much money VCs pour into them
February 11, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It is both true that we need deep conversations about what it will mean if we create digital consciousness + how we should treat the life we create, AND that right now we have a pattern matching bot that can't count the number of letters in a word reliably no matter how much money VCs pour into them
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I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
Have you TRIED Opus 4.6?!?! It's like NOTHING I've EVER SEEN BEFORE. It WILL CHANGE the WORLD!
February 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Have you TRIED Opus 4.6?!?! It's like NOTHING I've EVER SEEN BEFORE. It WILL CHANGE the WORLD!
Did an occasional peek-in on Twitter to find Taylor Lorenz spending what seemed like her entire day attacking a sex worker for saying Taylor’s comment that “no leftists are talking about the dangers of ID verification” was erasing that sex workers have indeed been doing just that. Horrible person.
February 11, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Did an occasional peek-in on Twitter to find Taylor Lorenz spending what seemed like her entire day attacking a sex worker for saying Taylor’s comment that “no leftists are talking about the dangers of ID verification” was erasing that sex workers have indeed been doing just that. Horrible person.
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All you need to do to call yourself a writer is…write. The extruded AI romance lady isn't writing. She is telling a machine that steal's other people's work to slop it together and extrude a writing shaped product. Ergo not a writer.
February 10, 2026 at 5:04 PM
All you need to do to call yourself a writer is…write. The extruded AI romance lady isn't writing. She is telling a machine that steal's other people's work to slop it together and extrude a writing shaped product. Ergo not a writer.
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Aside from all the other reasons not to believe these people, every one of the “vehicle attacks” I’ve seen scrutinized were either totally phony -like Renee Goods. Or ones where like an ice agent rammed the purported assailant. Like that woman in Chicago
Ricketts: "No face masks -- we're seen a huge increase in attacks on our ICE agents. There's been 180 vehicle attacks. Overall attacks on DHS are up 8,000%. There's many so many doxxings of officers they've had to set up a tip line. This is very very serious."
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Aside from all the other reasons not to believe these people, every one of the “vehicle attacks” I’ve seen scrutinized were either totally phony -like Renee Goods. Or ones where like an ice agent rammed the purported assailant. Like that woman in Chicago
I'm really tired of these doom posts where Trump and his people get to have agency and take actions and everything that happens next is exactly what they want from those actions. No one else gets to respond, nothing they do will fail to work.
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I'm really tired of these doom posts where Trump and his people get to have agency and take actions and everything that happens next is exactly what they want from those actions. No one else gets to respond, nothing they do will fail to work.
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Everything before and after "the White House orders the military to seize ballots and voting machines" is superfluous. Either he orders the military to steal an election or he doesn't, and they either listen or they don't.
Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Everything before and after "the White House orders the military to seize ballots and voting machines" is superfluous. Either he orders the military to steal an election or he doesn't, and they either listen or they don't.
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Schumer: ball’s in your court
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Schumer: ball’s in your court
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
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Lmao I was just shown this
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Lmao I was just shown this