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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h
The real story is the fake audio and Elon’s role in covering it up
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
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Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms
Trump campaigned against foreign oil.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Alex @alexmd90.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never forget.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026
You may think this is famous, but don't forget that there is this clip of Hegseth literally hitting a US Army Band member with an axe on live TV.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 08/10/2026
Trump is foolishly but deliberately shrinking the American presence in several key regions, but because he and Pete Hegseth are total incompetents, they have unintentionally allowed Iran to destroy the entire US military infrastructure in the Middle East archive.is/yviFY
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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 16/09/2026
Homeworld 2 was released 23 years ago today. Pick up Homeworld Remastered Collection (2015) to play this sci-fi classic! Art by Rob Cunningham:
A large, futuristic spacecraft with a blocky, industrial design flies through space. The ship has metallic blue/gray armor with white stripes, antennas, and lights, against a dark starry background
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All amazing art, but I wanted to single this fun piece out…
Art by Philippe Bouchet showing the USS Enterprise at the centre of a fleet of famous spaceships, including the Falcon, X-Wing, Nostromo, Sulaco, Vorlon and Shadow ships, Eagle transporter and some from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Behind is Earth and a giant Monolith dominates the composition.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Art by Philippe Bouchet (born 19 March 1956), better known as Manchu, a science-fiction illustrator with hundreds of book & magazine covers to his name. He also contibuted to French / Japanese animated series Once Upon a Time... Space and Ulysses 31.
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Everyday until a New Darkstalkers is announced @darkstalkers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do like Warhammer 40K a Lot, i understand the premise, i enjoy the Pro Imperium Memes. But, when I find in the wild someone who takes them absolutely serious is when i have a problem. Or these people
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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This important piece by @pennyred.bsky.social was both my introduction to Milo—in 2016—and the first accurate prediction of everything to come. This as normies were in absolute denial of both the seriousness of the alt-right's bloodthirst and the strength of its connections to Yarvin and Anglin.
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I’m With The Banned
What my evening with Milo told me about Twitter’s biggest troll, the death of reason, and the crucible of A-list con-men that is the…
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 13/09/2026
Find local politicians or political parties you like and seek out volunteer positions. I have done data entry, map cutting, lots of things that aren't stressful or public facing. There is work to be done!
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 13/09/2026
Fan art I produced some years ago for the Xeelee Sequence books by Stephen Baxter, some of my favorite space opera. It introduced me to a lot of mad Big Dumb Object ideas. This artwork is based on the description of the powerful Xeelee species in his most recent trilogy in the series.
Illustration of a blue ethereal alien meeting a woman
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 11/09/2026
Alien of the Day A lovely Selection from Masters of Orion 3! These have inspired some of my own designs as far back as high school. Particularly love the gas-bag Ethearian...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I'm on a slow and steady mission to read a book from every country in the world. Here's the mega thread 2.0 where I'll post each new book as I read them. Happy adventures bookworms! #ReadTheWorld
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 05/10/2026
All my current paintings in progress are in their awkward/ugly phase lol, so here is one I did last October! A spooky star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula I named Leviathan’s Wake. I’ll bring back prints at the end of this month 🐉
Rectangular painting on easel of star-forming region in Eagle nebula that looks like a dragon or leviathan skeleton rising. Colors of the nebula are dark brown, orange, pink, and purple
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcare
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Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing Healthcare
Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hadn't really encountered Rich Kids until I went to college and then law school. Of course, they're not all bad. But the ones who are bad are bad in such a distinctive way. Like they are insulated against accountability and are intoxicated by that fact.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA is re-opening the criminal investigation into the Cornell 7. abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
SHINRA NEWS: January 31st, 1997 Edition

Bisexuality

Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.

Also includes the articles:

PRES. SHINRA'S FIRST NAME - What Was It

EGG AND CHIPS - A New Frontier In Bar Food
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22/09/2026
"Oh my God, all of it is for sale." When federal agents raided a defense contractor’s office, they uncovered a 50-page roadmap detailing how campaign cash was allegedly traded for tens of millions in government contracts. Then, the entire investigation was shut down. Why?
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FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way
In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C.For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. President Donald Trump’s dismal approval r...
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kiana Mai has released the fully animated and colored ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl’ pilot on YouTube. Watch: youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/09/2026
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999): USS Defiant, art by Jim Martin
 USS Defiant, art by Jim Martin
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Love to give the guy whose books mysteriously got NYT Book Review coverage while his wife was editor of the NYT Book Review a platform to whine about who he thinks has an unfair advantage in publishing
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colin feral @sal.gay · 22/09/2026
"Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, the lead sponsor of the bill, noted 18 governors have 'signed identical provisions into law without fanfare'" WITHOUT FANFARE NEWSOM YOU WEASEL www.ebar.com/story/170505
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing quite says "I'm an elected Democrat" like giving up twenty feet before the finish line because you're scared of the consequences of winning
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