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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 11h

Right: More money than brains. Like $800 for a Fiat electric motor scooter.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 11h

Every time I see this I become more certain that he copy-pasted that list from his grindr profile.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 12h

There's a certain type of person has been conditioned to respect The Hierarchy no matter what it's doing. Some have built their entire careers on that. As with everything else in his life, it's a power others spent decades building that Trump bought cheap and pretends he invented it.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 12h

For $1,500, maybe. $15,000 for a glorified golf cart, this is a definite "More money than brains" product.

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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 19h

The defending WNBA champion Aces broke the Fever 94-83 Thursday. Four-time MVP A'ja Wilson led the Aces with 36 points and PG Chelsea Gray scored 21. Caitlin Clark had 18 pts and six turnovers. | Callie Fin www.usatoday.com/story/sports... #BlackskyNews #WNBA

Caitlin Clark sits midcourt with arms outstretched, palms up wearing an expectant expression

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

In a lot of cases the craters are filled in with the rubble and debris of whatever was on top of them (eg apartment buildings). They didn't use the big stuff against street targets like ambulances or taxi cabs, only a few craters for those.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

It's implied in the fact that mass atrocities always feature AGGRESSIVE dehumanizing propaganda. None of which would be necessary if the people carrying out those actions lacked empathy to begin with. Unless he's only talking about leadership. Implying all the top Nazis were psychopaths.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

He still does, the honorless petaQ.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"What, after all, will we do when A.I. frees us from doing our jobs and thinking our thoughts and, ultimately, leading our lives? Use more A.I. so that we can use our newfound free time to—use more A.I.?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

What if fascism is the antidote to reality? Like, in a similar way that carbon monoxide is the antidote to oxygen?

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Ans then there's the astromechs, who are consistently very good at any task that DOESN'T involve talking to people.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026

a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

That's a LOT of unnecessary words just to say "We need more white people."

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I am definitely NOT eating enough crabs.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Remind the winner that I do not hit women, and then hand a steel chair to my sister in law.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Development doesn't happen in a vacuum. When people are forced to develop faster, they DO. For suburban kids, high school is the first time they ever have to take real responsibility for anything. For a 10 yr old fruit picker, not so much. For a 12 yr old on his 3rd foster family, even less.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

The two best bosses I ever had were a white man. The two worst bosses (and also coworkers) I ever had were white women. I've only once in my life had a Black man for a boss and he wasn't really a "boss" so much as "playful unc who cooks the meat and signs our paychecks when we do good."

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

So what's the issue then? Slop Intelligence is official. We can reclaim what's ours.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Go ahead and surrender. I won't stop you.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"Put him on ice until things get better."

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Unconscientious people aren't. And I have zero interest in changing MY vocabulary to placate people who who have no interest in learning it. My answer will always be "That's not what AI means, so STFU." See also "Woke."

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I really wished that worked. I don't think it does. We end up in a situation where 10 years from now someone's researching translation language models and somebody pops up with "Ew! You're researching Aye Eye?! What are you a scammer? lol!" Better to box the slop than box everything that aint.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

We pretty much always did. "AI" is what we called it when we were talking to casuals who didn't know the difference between predictive algorithms and expert systems or whatever. If anything we need a new term for bullshit tech that wastes everyone's time and money. Technoslop? Sloptelligence?

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Should, yes. But that's my point: a lot of white Americans are using lsraeI as a kind of surrogate for their own ethnostate fantasies because they feel bad about wanting it for themselves. It's like all the middle aged failsons who walked out of Fight Club thinking Tyler Durden was the good guy.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Anthropic and CharGPT are engaging in massive stolen valor for the entire field of machine learning. There are a million important applications for AI technology. Your imbecilic error-prone overhyped money-burning chatbot, not so much.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

If AI disappeared tomorrow, your email, car, phone, and most websites would all stop working. Video games would become incredibly boring, weather forecasts would stop working, and most forms of public transit would grind to a halt. OTOH if LLM tools disappeared, 99% of us would barely notice.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Though, to be fair, Pacific islanders mostly got used to the idea that volcano gods are fickle and ineffable and there aint shit you can do about them except stay out of the way when they get riled up. This is probably equally true of the forces that govern our economy today.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Culturally, we've been conditioned to think of The Economy as a general proxy for the health of our entire civilization. If things are bad, it must mean The Economy is displeased with us. We used to think this way about gods and/or volcanos. Neoliberalism is America's new folk religion.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Yeah but 1) A whole lot of them weren't on the right side 2) Native American genocide. Add 100 years of Jim Crow, redlining, massacres, and people remembering their racist parents/grandparents reacting to desegregation, you got yourself self-loathing jambalaya.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Yes. And it's always just projection. Deep down in the subconscious of everyone who identifies as "white" is the seething fear that some day the people their ancestors oppressed will show up looking for revenge.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not saying that a guy who sprints to the front to defend every rapist and attack every victim is himself a rapist because I have no information upon which to base such a claim. But I would bet a million bucks that this guy would risk his life to keep any of us from seeing his hard drive.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Two consecutive back-to-back ponzi schemes that somehow devoured half the economy between them while everyone else got laid off, tax hiked, AND saw cuts to local services, all at the same time.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

It's that and the fact that the people in charge keep telling us that there's actually nothing wrong with the economy and all the bad shit that keeps happening is SUPPOSED to happen. It's like calling the police after you get mugged and having the mugger show up in uniform to take your statement.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

It's strangely fitting how this scene flows immediately into a judge chatting with a constable about how he's having trouble seducing his own stepdaughter. MAGA is cartoon villainy come to life.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Of course she is. Racism isn't about hate, it's about POWER. Compassionately sparing a few of "the good ones" from annihilation (for which they should be eternally grateful) is how racists settle their conscience.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

There's an old scroll in the Natural History museum from like 800 BC where some guy in Persia was whining about the younger generation being soft and spoiled and nobody wants to work anymore.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

One day he's gonna fall asleep during a press conference and never wake up.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Nah, that's defund. Abolish literally means get rid of them entirely and find some other way to enforce public safety/order. Defund is the abolitionist's compromise proposal.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I mean, HE was there, and a lot of people in the room praised him. For a malignant narcissist, that makes it the most important television event in history. This is just a reminder that it is not possible to underestimate Trump's pettiness or his immaturity. He's like a toddler with a private army.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Alternately: his friends already bought in after last week's slump so he's about to announce a fake peace treaty to give them a big stock bump knowing it'll take journos at least 2 hours to realize he's lying.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Right before markets close? He'll probably announce that he's going to annihilate Iran and the strikes are already ordered. Then after it closes (and the Dow loses 900pts and all his friends have bought the dip) he'll say Iran called and wants to make a deal so it'll open higher tomorrow.

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TheArcher @iarcher.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

It would also knock the legs out of the recording industry, which is probably the best possible outcome.

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