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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 3h

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than previously expected: futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina…

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 3h

Every business in this country is subsidized by university research and training. Every American student has their costs reduced by every foreign student. Every foreign student trained here spreads US soft power abroad. They are dismantling all of modernity, and not in a good way.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 7h

YES. I was just thinking about how many useful ideas and real solutions AREN'T being funded - or even THOUGHT UP - because the money and attention is being sucked into tulip bulbs. You've got kids who might have figured out cold fusion spending all their time building AI video apps.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks, Noodle Anbassador — I was wondering what a ‘bad ge’ could be

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 4h

Without prompt, vigorous, costly attention, the 21stC will see the utter devastation of England’s reputation as a world leader in higher education, presided over by Tories, Labour, and Lib Dems, with hardly a word of protest from other parties.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 9h

Destroying one of the UKs most successful sectors just to be racist.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 15h

no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave

two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 4h

All should be ashamed of this negligent, toxic lack of leadership. HE enhances the life of the nation with research and cultural development (fuelling economic growth), and enhances the stature of the nation by educating students frm around the world, introducing them to British history and culture.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 5h

Can we now admit that the recent ‘Free Speech’ controversies stirred up by conservative/MAGA types were nothing but a stalking horse for ‘Only the Kind of Speech We Like, Not Yours’?

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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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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19h

This man is an assassin (metaphorically), incredible

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 10h

For someone who’s not D B Cooper, you sure talk a lot about not being D B Cooper. I’m not Ryan North, but this is the only time in 70 years I’ve ever said so. (The resemblance is striking)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18h

Nailed it. 🔨

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some good stuff in this brief interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net - monopoly and the people who control/impose AI on others and that power imbalance being a huge part of the issue: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

news.harvard.edu

Digital life doesn’t have to be this way — Harvard Gazette

The writer and activist Cory Doctorow wants you to be mad about tech monopoly — but not blindly terrified of AI.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The best part (bei mir) is ‘highly accepted new and more accurate term’ — that’s a monograph’s worth of raw material right there.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ironically, I’d have a decent chance of slipping through his net despite being an American emigre with Scottish ancestry….

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Σκέψαιεν ἡμᾶς, Κύριε, πάλιν τελούμενα τὰ τής ἱερᾶς τῶν μακαρίων Διονυσίου, Ῥουστικοῦ, καὶ Ἐλευθερίου Μαρτύρων πανηγύρεως· κ’ ᾳκείνων αἰωνίου βοηθείας αἰσθανοίμεθα, ὧν τὴν προστασίαν ἀδιαλείπτῳ τιμῇ σεβόμενοι διατελούμεν, διὰ τὸν Κύριον ἡμων Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν… Happy Feast of St Denis to all who observe

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The mask — slipping more and more over the last two years — has come well and truly off, as Hegseth promises live-stream snuff film, Trump offers to pay people to vote for him and incites a race war. Vote, if you want, for barbarism, corruption, and bigotry, but don’t think you’re fooling anyone….

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't ask you to spell out my last name; the least you can do in return is grant me all four of my initials.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had my tonsils out 65 years or so ago, and I have no memories of it, nor can I say that it affected my health for the better or worse. I don't seem to have been traumatised by it, though.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sign me up for the Official Trump Administration Enemies List. It’s AI.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Fabians were notorious for their determination to replace US workers with foreigners, and their insistence that women’s sports include male players.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Just like a one winged dove, Sings a song sounds like it's singing Woo woo woo’

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘[I]n the 16th century, St Denys itself instituted the custom of singing the entire Mass on the Octave day of their Patron Saint in [Greek], a tradition which continued until the French Revolution. This was not the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, but the Mass of the Roman Rite translated into Greek.’

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still longing for the time and place to have a Greek prayerbook communion…

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It just struck me as odd that Gk μέλος is mostly for limbs/organs as body parts, and a striking metaphor for a human participant in a group identity (‘member’), whereas Latin membrum covers both parts-of-a-whole and human group participants as conventional uses. Not sure I’m explaining this well…

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That too. I need this done, and would happily pay someone; local laundries seem not to grasp the premise. (I'm told that starching decreases the life of the fabric, but I’m old enough that by the time my clericals wear out it’ll be a race to see whether I wore out before them, so it’s not an issue.)

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Holy fuck.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've never encountered a better solution than plastic containers. Now, if I could get some shirts and collars bleached and washed…

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really delighted to see that my introduction to a Literature & Theology special forum on how we engage with fascist thinkers in the field is now available on advanced access: academic.oup.com/litthe/advan...

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Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology

Abstract. The introduction to the special forum on Fascism in the Canon of Literature and Theology reviews the history of the journal's engagement with the

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Re-wetting drained peatlands is a powerful and underappreciated climate solution.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Trump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.

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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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Non Scary Ghost @ghostofargon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Some of you didn't do the logic problems in your Mom's crossword puzzle books, and it shows."

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