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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 20/09/2026

I am fascinated by the degree to which cis men are proving themselves unable to even identify what CAMP MIASMA is about, let alone properly critique it. This is a real "that's the joke" kind of review -- it is *explicitly about* the experience of having all of those things overlapping!

Enjoyed this overall, but a bit more in theory than in practice. In part because I think it’s having 3 or 4 different comically meta but genuinely academic conversations with itself about the slasher genre at any given moment (its upsetting history of misogyny/transphobia, its uniquely visceral gateway to cathartically extreme depictions of taboo fears and desires, its “strange mating ritual” body count thrills + its capitalist commodification into a thoughtlessly nostalgic form of junk food) while also trying to be a similarly deeply personal allegory and excavation of trans/queer specific anxieties about identity and sexuality that I Saw the TV Glow was so effective at being.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 12/09/2026

Shut up, Dario. You’re an evil piece of shit and the only interests you have at heart are your own. The world will be better if your oh so dangerous AIs burn your company down.

A screenshot of a post from Dario amodei whining about how dangerous AI is again.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 10/09/2026

These posts are always very dumb, bordering on ragebait, but in this case I do sincerely believe that if you consider yourself a television fan, and any of these are your favorite show, your life will be improved by watching more television.

HAWK
@HawkEmDownChris
You can't say Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Sopranos, or The Office.
What's your favorite TV show of all time?

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 09/09/2026

Discovered a core problem with Paul's reasoning.

Screenshot of part of a post by Paul Frazee with the text "listen to kara swisher talk" visible.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 08/09/2026

"Why is everyone giving opinions on the thing that we've dumped all of the money from the entire economy into, told everyone they have to use in every single facet of life, demanded the education system begin to teach, and that generates hundreds of weirdo posts a day about creating digital life?"

em @foremphasis.bsky.social • 13h
I think its kind of clear that ai must in some sense "have the juice" solely because of how insane its made pretty much everybody. 1/3
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em @foremphasis.bsky.social • 13h
You've got people who have never thought about tech in their lives asserting that Al cannot truly think because it uses mathematics. These are folks who are clearly not equipped to be talking about that stuff, but for some reason everybody has to talk about that now. 2/3
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@foremphasis.bsky.social
It drives techies mad because it used to be that we were the only ones who cared about this stuff, so if you thought something was cool for the most part an average person just didn't know what that was an left you alone. Now everyone's suddenly here to discuss machine learning algorithms. 3/3

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 08/09/2026

This is an astonishingly bad analogy. I'm stunned by this one, folks.

David Mimno
@dmimno.bsky.soclal
Cars are a surprisingly good model for public acceptance of Al. Some people love them and tinker with them. Others hate and reject them.
Most find their own car useful. But everyone viscerally hates everyone else's car: traffic, parking, dangerous driving, pollution, etc.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 02/09/2026

lmao who is the constituency for this nonsense

(Donald J. Trump OC
@realDonaldTrump
Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed. The workers don't want it either! Soon we'll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year. It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 01/09/2026

Me every time I get something clearly written entirely by AI.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 28/08/2026

isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

Screenshot of a headline: Culottes are back, baby!

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 26/08/2026

Zechs gon' give it to ya

Zechs Marquis from Gundam Wing, in a red military jacket and a silver helmet and mask covering the top of his face, blonde hair spilling out the back.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 24/08/2026

Checking in on ol' Boris to see how it's going.

Boris Cherny @bcherny
Update: this was not a bug, but it is a ux issue that we have a fix for.
Going out in a bit.
* Readers added context they thought people might want to know
That's called a bug
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_..

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 23/08/2026

Almost every post out of OpenAI or Anthropic can be reacted to with this.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 20/08/2026

I hate when everything is framed under horserace terms. You have town halls because you are the representative not JUST for the people who did and will vote for you, but your entire district. Getting yelled at by the people who hate you is part of your job. Not doing it should be called out.

Drew Savicki
@DrewSav .1h
Sometimes Town Halls can also be misleading. In Wyoming Harriet Hageman was drowned out by boos in a state where Trump remains very popular. The few liberals that exist are energized to show up. Republicans will dominate the state in November despite angry town halls.
Matt Fuller
@MEPFuller • 6h
House Republicans held the fewest number of in-person town halls for the first part of this year since Legistorm started tracking that information.
(They had 39, while Democrats held 451.)...

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 18/08/2026

People ask why AI detractors are so hyperbolic, but the guys running the actual companies making the actual technology are out on mainstream media saying shit like this.

A screenshot of twitter, Wall Street Rollup. The picture is of Greg Brockman, Open AI's president, interviewed on CNBC.

The text says:

"Open AI President Greg Brockman:

'Compute is the new Oil'"

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 12/08/2026

Couldn’t find an image of the original source.

Scene from sons of anarchy of a bunch of the bikers standing around outside and one saying “We’re not a gang. We’re a club.”

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 08/08/2026

I find Anthropic's position as the Responsible and Trustworthy ones in the industry to be baffling. This is the kind of crap you constantly see coming out of their top level employees. Oh sorry no our amazing model is only amazing if you don't say the wrong thing to it, don't spook it!!!

Thariq @trq212
yeah agree
I think you want to give it context and goals and let it find its way insteac or if you do want to be specific, collaborate via artifacts to make sure your plan is very detailed and then have it implement

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 04/08/2026

It should surprise no one that Nate Silver is developing AI Psychosis.

Nate Silver O @NateSilver538
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This is an interesting admission from Claude, and it's consistent with my experience with it. It gets more stubborn and attached as the context window gets longer. Kind of like people as they age, arguably.

Chat from Nate: Once we get thru the other LLM suggestions, should I be starting a new chat? just wonder to what extent performance can deteriorate in Opus 5 max, or rather, whether having all the context will continue to improve performance

Response from Claude: Honest answer: yes, and probably fairly soon.
The context has stopped being net-positive somewhere in the last stretch. The evidence is in my own error rate — the cd on line 101 sat in a file I'd edited dozens of times, and I never grepped for it because I was reasoning from my model of the code rather than the code. Same with the lowercase-only sweep, twice. Those are the failures of someone working from memory instead of looking, and more context makes that more tempting, not less.
There's also a subtler cost: I've accumulated a lot of confident beliefs about this file tonight, several of which turned out wrong. A fresh instance has no such attachments and would just read what's there.
What genuinely benefits from continuity: the model's architecture, why particular decisions were made, the shape of the debugging so far. Most of that is now durable - it's in the comments I've been writing into the file, which is where it belongs.
My suggestion: finish the remaining critique points here, since I've read them and have the context loaded, then start fresh for the orchestration rebuild the critique recommends. That's a well-bounded piece of work with a clear spec - the ten numbered issues - and it's exactly the kind of thing better done by someone reading the file cold.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 01/08/2026

I want to be fair to Barker that, when asked for more detail on his approach to wishes, it is not really Monkeys Paw, and I think the nature of how the money wish goes wrong vs. Bear's wish is textually supportive of this point of view. A lot of summary articles are axing this part out.

In a twist on the classic Monkey's Paw scenario, Barker says the One Wish Willow doesn't necessarily produce cursed outcomes. It all depends on the wish that's made. "Everyone thinks the One Wish Willow is cursed, but it's not. Like if you worded it very, very carefully and wished for something you knew couldn't possibly be bad for anybody, you're probably fine," he says. "But if you're forcing someone to feel a certain way about you, it doesn't really matter how you word it."

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 25/07/2026

BLADE RUNNER (1982) Dir. Ridley Scott

A shot from good will hunting of Matt Damon and mini driver at a food stand with a neon sign behind them.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 19/07/2026

I'm not trying to dunk on this, so I've cut the poster off, but I think this is missing that the impact of bad lit education can be that it leaves you without seeing the value in reading, and since you now have to teach yourself how to do it and how to find enjoyment in it, it just never ranks high.

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 18/07/2026

Just found out that, before there was Barbenheimer, both The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia came out on the same day, so I made something to commemorate the anniversary.

The Joker in The Dark Knight, his hand raised, with a modified version of the actual quote as a subtitle: "And here... we... go again!"

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 16/07/2026

Somehow ended up on the fundraising emails for @conrad4congress.bsky.social, and I would like whoever is running or advising his campaign to reconsider how persuasive it is to tell people you're asking for money that you're gonna leave the country and not keep fighting.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 15/07/2026

My experience dealing with all of Anthropic's newest, most powerful models.

Meme of Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen rising into the sky with light behind him. A woman stands in front of him. Over the woman is the text "Source?" Over Doctor Manhattan is the quote, "I made it up"

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 10/07/2026

Me every time Platner or a supporter whines about their political misfortunes.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 18/06/2026

Whose list am I on for this?

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 14/06/2026

I will save the ethnocentric stupidity for posterity, though.

Dan Davies
@dsquareddigest.bsky.social

I don't think you can possibly consider something to beat the best national cuisine in the world when you can't even pair it with the best wine in the world

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social • 8h
I think what American food posters miss is that lots of people over here in Europe drink nice wine with their dinner, so they want food which goes well with wine, rather than being overwhelmed with vinegar and peppers.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 14/06/2026

Dropping a war crime of my own. I need to think about ordering, but I feel good about what's on the list I think.

Top 50 Episodes of Doctor Who
1. Heaven Sent
2. The Eleventh Hour
3. The Waters of Mars 4. The Pandoriçg Opens/The Big Bang
5. Listen
6. Silence In the Library/Forest of the Dead
7. Midnight
8. Turn Left
9. The God Complex
10. The Day of the Doctor
11. Blink
12. The Husbands of River Song
13. The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
14. Flatline
15. Vincent and the Doctor
16. Rose
17. Partners In Crime
18. The Parting of the Ways
19. The Snowmen
20. The Girl Who Waited
21. The Doctor's Wife
22. Kill the Moon
23. Face the Raven
24. The Lodger
25. Oxygen

26. Dot and Bubble
27. The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
28. World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
29. Utopia
30. The Name of the Doctor
31. The Time of the Doctor
32. Twice Upon a Time
33. A Good Man Goes To War
34. Wild Blue Yonder
35.73 Yards
36. Dalek
37. The End of Time (Part 2)
38. The Doctor Dances/The Empty Child
39. The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords
40. The Unicorn and the Wasp
41. The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
42. Asylum of the Daleks
43. The Bells of Saint John
44. Hell Bent
45. The Pyramid At the End of the World/Lie of the Land
46. Under the Lake/Before the Flood
47. Boom
48. Eve of the Daleks
49. The Giggle
50. It Takes You Away

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 10/06/2026

LMAO I am late to this party apparently.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 10/06/2026

To be very blunt, I have a clue neither on who the audience for this is supposed to be, nor what the point one would be making with a feed full of this.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social • 6m
There was not a single moment in the last two months where I was not 100% correct about this and I am absolutely going to be smug about it and I promise you I will not stop
August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social • 2mo
BlueSky is a relatively young website but this is still without a doubt going to be one of the most "this website is not real life" stories in this website's history
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social • 31m
If you're still drafting posts about how there are actually other candidates in this race STAY IN LINE
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social • 2h
Folks I'm gonna hold your hands when I tell you this
August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social • 1d
Collins was down 3 on Election Day in 2020 and was declared the winner before noon the next morning. They're going to project Platner the winner based on exit polling 15 seconds after the polls close

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 05/06/2026

Stay based, Penzey's Spices. Happy Pride.

After receiving your last email, please remove me from your emailing list. / won't business with a company who's [sic] values are worlds apart from my own. M.W.
Sure. Thanks, even. But are 19305 Germany values, rely alues?
Yesterday's email started with: It's June. It's time to stand up for all those who Republicans are so desperate to push down. It's also time to remind the world America is no place for want-to-be kings. June's also a good month for so much tasty food. We have all that covered.
I suppose it's possible M. W. is not anti Pride, but just Pro-King instead. But who knows? Maybe both.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 01/06/2026

So we’re just saying shit now, okay. Yes because no one is criticizing this who is also upset about Platner.

August J. Pollak
@augustjpollak.bsky.social
It is absolutely hilarious how many people on here are going "those stupid lefties are going to get an actual Nazi elected!" while Mikie Sherrill is deploying stormtroopers against citizens in one of the bluest states in the fucking country.

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Eric Sipple @ericsipple.com · 31/05/2026

This is how the piece ends. It's clear who this article is carrying water for, whether the writer wanted it carried for them or not.

A rich text indeed. I'll say it again: There is nothing like people.
That is what I'll remember about us, how interesting we were.

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