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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026

"THE ENEMY"

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11h

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social

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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low

Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 11h

My grandparents would have lived under the threat of state execution, its not so long ago. It was barbaric then its barbaric and inhumane now.

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 11h

That barbaric practice of state and public execution is a lot more modern than that (ended in many countries after ww2 in the 50/60s), "medieval" isn't equivalent to barbarism.

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 11/11/2025

#thicktrunktuesday The 4000 year old #Seahenge central tree stump can still be seen at Lynn Museum It’s also one of my Great Trees of Britain #GTOB @ticl.me 🏆🌳🇬🇧 www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/article/3049...

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 08/11/2025

#SeaHenge2 In 1998 shifting sands on the North Norfolk Coast revealed this … Constructed from wood in 2049 BC - this remarkable Bronze age structure can still be seen at very low tides off Holme-next-the-Sea #GTOB www.holme-next-the-sea.co.uk/seahenge.php...

An oval wooden palisade wall with two central posts

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 11h

He'd bomb his own people in a heartbeat.

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Bonnie Raitt @bonnieraitt.bsky.social · 13h

Sharing this sweet memory of performing "Angel From Montgomery" together at the Americana Music Association Awards & Honors in 2019. Happy Birthday, John! -- Bonnie Watch the full performance here: youtu.be/MaHNUYAKDn4?...

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Bonnie Raitt & John Prine "Angel From Montgomery" | ACL Presents: Americana 18th Annual Honors

YouTube video by Austin City Limits

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14h

I wrote in 2023 about our new "golden age of brutal voyeurism." "It’s like there are suddenly many more movie theaters in town, and some of them are much more friendly toward snuff films" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Violent videos and ‘brutal voyeurism’ are redefining modern war

From Russian soldiers shot down on camera to Hamas fighters slain as they tried to escape the Israeli navy, the scenes now shared across the internet are far more violent and graphic than in previous ...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13h

A live-streamed execution will also serve as a threat to keep internal actors in line. In addition to being obscene, it’s a threat targeting us, in other words.

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 13h

If your thing is driving traffic to old movies then think you should know there is nowhere we can watch them.

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona. n.pr/4e4P0gD

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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions

Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15h

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15h

Three OpenAI employees who were let go from the company have written an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns about safety: “As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.”

OpenAl cannot make Al safe on its own
A note on third-party collaborations, open debate, and clear operating procedures Dear Safety and Security Committee, Safety Advisory Group, and Mission Advisory Council:
We are the three safety and alignment employees who were fired from OpenAl last week: Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni. We are writing to you because you hold oversight responsibility for safety at OpenAl; our firing and the way it was handled bear directly on it.
We have become concerned that internal and external communications around our firing have made our former colleagues afraid to speak and operate in ways that, until last week, were an integral part of working at Open Al. We could raise safety concerns and disagree openly, and were encouraged to draw on the expertise of independent safety organizations.
This is part of what made OpenAl special, and why we are immensely proud to have been part of the team.
Al is not a normal technology, and OpenAl is not a normal company. Those of us who work on safety see risks before anyone else, and we rely on close collaboration with outside experts to work out how to address them. The freedom to do so without fear, and to have well-defined internal procedures that enable this work, is itself an essential safety mechanism.
We do not believe the path to superintelligence can be navigated safely if the people closest to the risks can no longer work in high-trust, high-bandwidth ways with each other and with third parties. It is that culture we are writing to defend.
For those of you who do not know us, each of us has been working on AI safety for years.
• Tomek did his PhD on RL for aligning language models in the GPT-2 cra and then worked on applying those techniques at Anthropic. He joined OpenAl to work on chain-of-thought monitorability, co-authored
Open Al's safety strategy, worked on identifying the root cause of the drop in CoT monitorability in Astra-class models, and was the technical point of c…

• Mikita was a founding member of Apollo Research in 2023 where he studied Al misalignment and was one of the first people to notice when Als started to become aware of being evaluated. At OpenAl, Mikita worked on alignment evaluations, science of misalignment and chain-of-thought monitorability. He was involved in the Hugging Face incident investigation.
Before joining OpenAl, we started, and two of us were lead authors on, a cross-industry position paper: Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for Al Safety.
On our dismissals
OpenAI was much more than a job for us. Its mission has been central to our lives.
Throughout our time at OpenAl, we acted in line with OpenAl's mission and within the working norms of the time. Our firing leaves us worried that the norms inside OpenAl are shifting, and that employees are now unclear on where they stand.
Given the significant safety concerns surrounding the development of AI, employees must not be left working in an environment where fear and unclear rules stymie Al safety work and weaken third-party accountability.
Terminations such as ours, executed and communicated so abruptly, are chilling the open culture OpenAl has prized in the past.
If conduct that was considered normal last month now constitutes grounds for sudden dismissal, everyone at Open Al is left guessing where the line is.
We understand there are various versions of events circulating. We'd like you to hear a few things from us directly:
• We were not the source of the leak for The Information article about supposed new, less monitorable architectures. We do not know who it was. We had no reason to leak it; quite the contrary, the article undermined our own work on cross-company limits on the development of unmonitorable architectures.
• At no point do we believe we engaged with external parties outside the mandates of our jobs. As every person on this email thread understands well, the Hugging Face incident investigation was without pr…

• Mikita was navigating similar territory while stewarding cross-company work on commitments to prevent loss of monitorability, an effort that can only succeed through extensive communication with external parties.
Mikita was doing this in coordination and discussion with board members and the C-suite, with the understanding that senior members of OpenAl were supportive of this work. Throughout, Mikita checked in with his reporting line and took care to remove sensitive details from materials before sharing them. He acted throughout in good faith and within the company's norms as they stood at the time.
• Jasmine's access to an executive's email was delegated for recruiting purposes, with permission. When it was no longer needed, she asked for it to be removed. IT failed to do so. Jasmine had no ability to remove it or log out herself. The emails were combined in her inbox in a way that did not distinguish which inbox an email was intended for. When she accidentally clicked on a sensitive email, Jasmine reported this to the executive within minutes and flagged the access issue again to IT for removal.
We believe the above explanations are important, because we value the relationships we have with our colleagues at OpenAl. We are also worried by the number of rumors circulating, including allegations about a shared board-level memo. This was never raised with us, so we have had no chance to respond to what we believe is a mistaken assumption. Similarly, we did not share the news of our firings with the media. We would much rather not have been unexpectedly thrown into the spotlight.
Our concern now is that the lack of clarity around our firing, the very public manner in which it was carried out, and the circulating rumors are chilling those who remain at OpenAl, at a time when so much of the world's safety depends on them
Our parting recommendations to OpenAl
1. OpenAl must adhere to last month's public commitments to embed third-party safety auditors within the orga…

follow through on Sam Altman's September 12th public commitment to give independent evaluators ongoing, employee-like access.
2. OpenAl must preserve the monitorability of frontier models.
As an industry, we do not yet know how to safely develop and deploy models that we cannot monitor. The monitorability of frontier models is degrading.
As long as we rely on monitorability for safety, OpenAl and other frontier companies should not move forward with developments that further decrease monitorability.
We agree with Jakub's public statements that chain of thought monitorability is "fragile and unfortunately trending in a negative direction" and we "want to prevent a race into unmonitorable architectures." We continue to believe that industry-wide coordination on this issue is important, and hope that OpenAl will support its employees in making it possible.
3. OpenAl must continue to support an open and transparent culture of dialogue between its safety researchers and the rest of the safety ecosystem.
If Open Al's employees no longer feel like they can raise safety issues internally, or work within high-bandwidth channels with external safety organizations, we are all at greater risk that something truly catastrophic will happen.
We urge OpenAl to publicly reaffirm its culture of transparency and openness that allows for concerns to be raised both internally and externally.
Researchers inside OpenAl are a frontline defense against things going wrong, and the open culture that has been a feature of the company since its inception needs to be preserved. We also urge OpenAl to set out clearly how employees may work with external safety organizations, so that no one has to guess where the shifting lines now are. To support this conversation, we request that this letter be shared widely internally.
While we may no longer be part of Open Al, we have the utmost respect for our former colleagues. We urge them to keep holding OpenAl to its mission.
As we know, OpenAl is nothing…

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 16h

No civilised country has executions let alone public execution. Seeking vengeance and voyeuristic (inevitable from this regime) pleasure from it is not just insane, irresponsible and inhumane, its the kind of act only dictators/facists promote and approve of.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17h

📽️ AIDS drama 'Elsinore' opens London Film Festival "Elsinore", starring Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott, opens the London Film Festival. The drama tells the story of actor Ian Charleson as he prepared to play Hamlet while living with AIDS in the final months of his life.

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Nature @nature.com · 17h

The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and microbial losses in industrialized societies go.nature.com/4y8Do3e

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Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys

The Indigenous African Hadza and South American Tsimane share gut microorganisms that shed light on human dispersals and microbial losses in industrialized societies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Ken Paxton: "Pray that we will be delivered from socialism and capitalis-- ahm, from communism"

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve said it a thousand times but Stoicism and Ayn Rand both appeal to certain politicians and technocrats because it allows for them to feel virtuous in their narcissism. Casting themselves as ambitious heroes in a “hero’s journey” is exactly why @sentantiq.bsky.social and I wrote this takedown.

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The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey? | Los Angeles Review of Books

LARB presents the first entry in “Pasts Imperfect,” a new column that explores the impact of ancient pasts on the present.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 16h

90% of how Rubio described “the West” while in Athens (e.g., "fierce individuality,” “relentless ambition”) is just a rehashing of ideas plucked from Ayn Rand. Encouraging people to “ethical egoism” is how we got this level of inequality—which now sits at a higher level than Ancient Athens ever had.

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 16h

Why do you always attribute negative emotions to depictions of women?

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 18h

A contentious hearing at rental regulator the RTB heard how gardaí were twice called to resolve disputes between Ireland's biggest landlord, Ires Reit, and a tenant who previously worked for the firm. jrnl.ie/7183257

jrnl.ie

Ireland's biggest private landlord firm tries to evict former employee from Dublin apartment

At a tribunal hearing, details were laid out about a souring of relations between Ires Reit and the tenant.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21h

Walking through flames: orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires. The orangutan clings to the top of a mostly leafless tree in Indonesia's Borneo, as waves of thick smoke from the forest fires burning below waft over her u.afp.com/SCUr

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 21h

I doubt it will be the last.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 21h

The regime wants vengeance not justice, barbaric on every level.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Grotesque on every level.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

⚠️ Hegseth says the US will perform a public execution. Other countries with public executions include Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

Paul McLeary @paulmcleary
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NEW: Pete Hegseth says the execution of Fort Hood killer Maj. Hassan will be public.
Hegseth: "He's going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be. And we'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public..."
2:36 PM • 10/8/26 • 78K Views

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

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

This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

JD Vance leaves the door open to having his "fraud" task force investigate Planned Parenthood

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“The US government would never interfere in foreign country” is a statement that will come as a surprise to the people of Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Greece, Albania, Syria, Egypt, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Iran, Iraq, Laos….

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US lobbies allies to cut ties to anti-disinformation conference over panel critical of Washington, sources say

The US State Department lobbied Canada and European allies to withdraw support for an anti-disinformation conference because ‌it included a panel examining Washington's role as an alleged information ...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 07/10/2026

People who hunt game and gather wild plants in both Tanzania and Bolivia share hundreds of species of bacteria in their guts that are rare or missing from industrialized societies. Here's my story about what this may mean for the history of the microbiome. Gift link: nyti.ms/3WdCvZZ

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Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times? (Gift Article)

The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of people in industrialized countries.

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Magpie-A @anothermagpie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are Capybaras emotional support/regulation animals for other animals?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you’re so caught up in AI that you forget what it means to be human…

Alvin Sng @alvinsng
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My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
7:30 PM • 10/6/26 • 2.3M Views

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is AWFUL — it’s exhausting being an author in the age of mass AI copyright fraud. If you can, support Alex (a real historian) against the fake copy 👇

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