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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The headline for the experience online that I cultivate is Cloud Yells At Old Man.
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It is not true that everything gets cheaper.
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It is not true that everything gets cheaper.
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
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Broke: service dog
Woke: emotional support dog
Bespoke: gender affirming dog
Woke: emotional support dog
Bespoke: gender affirming dog
December 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Broke: service dog
Woke: emotional support dog
Bespoke: gender affirming dog
Woke: emotional support dog
Bespoke: gender affirming dog
Season 1 plotline garbage, what's going on in the writer's room? Fire the showrunner.
December 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Season 1 plotline garbage, what's going on in the writer's room? Fire the showrunner.
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One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
![Text from an interview with Rian Johnson about the lighting in WAKE UP DEAD MAN at RogerEbert.com that reads:
A: The big conversation I had with Steve, I grew up as a kid in Colorado, where the clouds move very fast. It doesn’t happen so much in Southern California, maybe in Chicago it does more often, but you’ll be in a room, it’ll be bright and warm and sunlit, and then the sun will go behind a cloud and like that [snaps fingers] it’ll suddenly be dark. You can barely see each other, and it’s dim and cool. The emotional language of the room changes. It’s something that happens a lot in real life, and you don’t see it in movies very often. I wanted to get very theatrical with those light changes, particularly in the church.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n365qogwt3ny2khkvtkpwzge/bafkreiex5j4bv4wn6syomiy3grpz3oedqv6kak5r4xopkbueztkcwmivxm@jpeg)
![Text from an interview with Rian Johnson about the lighting in WAKE UP DEAD MAN at RogerEbert.com that reads:
A: So Steve did a ton of work, and the church’s interior was a set built by Rick Heinrichs, our production designer. Steve prerigged it with all these lights and worked out the lighting control system where on set, just on his laptop, we could play the light changes like we were playing music. We could shape them to the scene as it was happening and repeat them take after take. My favorite thing is when I talk to a friend and they’re like ‘oh my god, that must have been magical on set when you guys got lucky and the sun just happened to have come out when he was giving that speech.’ I always say, ‘Yeah, yeah, it was really lucky.’ [Laughs] That’s absolutely how I want you to feel. That’s great.
Q: Just the right place, the right time.
A: Exactly. Just a lucky guy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n365qogwt3ny2khkvtkpwzge/bafkreidefkffhz4abjma3zvl67qdjhdtmaq6xjfemswiecl3p7pj3p3vxe@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...
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I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.
December 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I wrote the captions on this video the night Osama Bin Laden was killed and it’s probably the most shared thing I ever created.
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Our first lamé duck president
"About a third of the walls are now covered in gold — appliqués, frames or other decorations, a Times analysis showed."
A 3-D Look Inside Trump’s Revamped Oval Office (Gift Article)
Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our first lamé duck president
“The River of Stars” 😭😭😭😭😭😭
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“The River of Stars” 😭😭😭😭😭😭
You, a normie, a modern person: Have you seen the new South Park? They got Trump so bad.
Me, a connoisseur, a renaissance themby: When “La Resistance” does the One Day More/Quintet riff, you know those bastards are on their game.
Me, a connoisseur, a renaissance themby: When “La Resistance” does the One Day More/Quintet riff, you know those bastards are on their game.
December 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You, a normie, a modern person: Have you seen the new South Park? They got Trump so bad.
Me, a connoisseur, a renaissance themby: When “La Resistance” does the One Day More/Quintet riff, you know those bastards are on their game.
Me, a connoisseur, a renaissance themby: When “La Resistance” does the One Day More/Quintet riff, you know those bastards are on their game.
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He's not on my fucking side. He never will be.
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
He's not on my fucking side. He never will be.
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This is not a thing you say about a Republican Federalist Society guy running for Congress.
You're allowed to fucking criticize the guy literally running for Congress. You don't have to "take the help."
You can say, "I don't want your help here."
You're allowed to fucking criticize the guy literally running for Congress. You don't have to "take the help."
You can say, "I don't want your help here."
And now he's on our side. Take the help.
December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is not a thing you say about a Republican Federalist Society guy running for Congress.
You're allowed to fucking criticize the guy literally running for Congress. You don't have to "take the help."
You can say, "I don't want your help here."
You're allowed to fucking criticize the guy literally running for Congress. You don't have to "take the help."
You can say, "I don't want your help here."
Strap in, people, we're doing Blame Canada!
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Strap in, people, we're doing Blame Canada!
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Penzey’s out here still doing the work in 2025. Everybody needs spices, no matter how Caucasian your family. Buy them from friends.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Penzey’s out here still doing the work in 2025. Everybody needs spices, no matter how Caucasian your family. Buy them from friends.
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New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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I don’t know how people who defend and enable sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag can sleep at night
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don’t know how people who defend and enable sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag can sleep at night
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Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Pluribus rules because it’s forcing people who wanna see a bunch of sci fi lore dumps to instead watch amazing actors have incredibly interesting conversations about what it means to be a person
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SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company!
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
SoftBank is genuinely destroying itself trying to afford to pay OpenAI $22.5bn. There isn’t enough money to fund this company!
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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If you think beef prices are high now, wait until this gets to the US
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If you think beef prices are high now, wait until this gets to the US
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My takeaway from this is that I need to watch Space: Above and Beyond.
At long last, a piece I've been working on since summer is ready. A dive into the work and influence of Glen Morgan and James Wong, from The X-Files, to Space:Above and Beyond, and Millennium. Come with me as I argue that modern television owes them an unpayable debt. ericsipple.com/the-writers-...
The Writers Who Invented Modern Television
Let’s pick a fight right out of the gate: Modern television began on September 24, 1995. Like all beginnings, it went unnoticed, misattributed to other moments, and lost under the shadows of more visi...
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December 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My takeaway from this is that I need to watch Space: Above and Beyond.
There is a guy in this thread, a software engineer and not a historian, earnestly telling a historian that it’s fine to use an LLM to “summarize” readings, like it’s not already bad enough trying to figure out when real sources like Bede aren’t making things up without a robot making it worse.
Each of those rows is a discrete choice. Asking LLMs to "summarize" reading, and using that output without citation even to begin "critical engagement" is not appropriate for historians. Maybe you should read the responses from other historians, since you seem to think I don't know my field.
December 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
There is a guy in this thread, a software engineer and not a historian, earnestly telling a historian that it’s fine to use an LLM to “summarize” readings, like it’s not already bad enough trying to figure out when real sources like Bede aren’t making things up without a robot making it worse.