ArcXire 🇨🇦

ArcXire 🇨🇦

@arcxire.bsky.social

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It's amazing how clearly every tweet and appearance by Musk shows how utterly joyless his life is. "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." — William Gibson

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We have Provincial (think State) elections right now in BC, Canada, and to illustrate what bullshit American voting is, here is my complete timeline: -Left to vote 12:02 PM -Voted 12:04 PM -Had lunch 12:10 PM There were no line-ups, because there were a half dozen open voting areas near me.

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Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

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Americans crying for Musk to be prosecuted or starlink to be nationalized really have no fucking clue at all what is actually happening right now, huh? It must be nice to live in that fantasy world where you imagine, “fuck, someone must be in charge…somewhere…” But no. There isn’t.

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The way you got here, America is this: 1/3rd of your population went slowly insane over the last 2 decades, and fearing confrontation and "rocking the boat", you said nothing until they were totally and permanently detached from reality. Now the inmates run the asylum, and there's no way out.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

This is a really striking tweet.

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A Nazi trillionaire bought the presidency for an insurrectionist, nuclear-secret-stealing, failson, pedophile, while the vice president was chosen by an antichrist-obsessed, teen-bloodbag-draining billionaire. And when you write it out like that, well…

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Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com

‘At roughly 49%, AI’s share of the S&P 500's combined market capitalization exceeds the peak concentration of every episode shown except the nineteenth-century railroad boom.’ biancoresearch.substack.com/p/the-s-and-...

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I swear to the lord, you end talking with these delusional people who have gotten every major play in American politics of the last 10 years wrong, who still reach for the ripcord of "but he can't," like Daffy Duck eagerly opening a parachute Bugs Bunny packed, revealing a fucking anvil —every time.

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I want my fantasy #TTRPG party balanced like Lord of the Rings. (A superhuman hobo king, a rich shut-in with a fantasy nuke, a gardener, two trust-fund dipshits, daddy’s favorite authoritarian, an angel cosplaying as a homeless magician, an immortal nepo baby, and a four-foot race war enthusiast)

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What would a 5% tax on billionaire wealth actually look like? There are 938 billionaires in America with more than $8 trillion in combined wealth. So Ben and I decided to make the numbers visible—and then ask a simple question: what could that money actually do?

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$55K Ukrainian drones have erased 1% of Russia’s GDP in under a year. War has changed as fundamentally as with the machine gun, tank, airpower or nukes. The new war is cheap, ubiquitous, kit-bashed—and terrifying in ways conventional military leaders just don’t understand.

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All those countries you once cast a tired, judgmental gaze on for all those decades Americans, all those countries where a strong man owns everything and the people get nothing and the system has been so co-opted that there's no way out but violence; where people vanish and die. That's YOU, now.

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It is not mind-boggling at all. You are a Christofascist dictatorship with masked secret police shooting and disappearing people without due process, lead by a syphilitic child-rapist failson that spews shit from both ends 24/7. What's mind-boggling is you just sit there while it happens.

Semafor@semafor.com

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Nothing works. Airlines. Copyright. Making movies. College. Retirement. Mass transit. Medicine. Housing. Investment. Everything is a scam, or on its way to becoming a scam. Nothing works and it’s by design, because every hitch in the process is another way for the rich to make more money.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KILMEADE: Rep. Beyer says you shouldn't use his constituents as 'guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system.' Your reaction? SEAN DUFFY: This is just complete stupidity

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An old Soviet joke: Everyday a man buys a newspaper at a newsstand, looks at the front page and then throws it in the garbage. Finally, after weeks of this the news seller says, “why do you do that?” “Oh, I’m looking for an obituary.” “Ah. Those are in the back.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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This is basically an abridged version of “in a battle between a 40 million dollar jet and a flying pizza box with a mortar round attached to it, you’ll be surprised who wins.”

Decades of military engineering to build and optimize the perfect combat vehicle and it turns out nothing beats "Toyota with a machinegun on it".