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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 6h
oh no! my AI agent went rogue and bought a bunch of weird stuff online using credentials and task parameters I gave it! oh shit, my AI agent went rogue and hacked the state department after I gave it a series of exploits to hack the state department! oh fuck my AI agent went rogue and shit my pa
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/10/2026
We won’t stand by while Mark Carney launches the biggest attack on workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment that we've seen since the Harper era. Join our emergency town hall on October 14th, and let’s build the power to stop Bill C-39 together. RSVP here: www.ndp.ca/stop-bill-c39
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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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 09/10/2026
What kills me is that that's the utopian vision! Their impossible-to-achieve endgame is a world where art is dead and everyone is placated like babies! That's the *sales* pitch! The reality is just cheap imagination-free slop content used to cheaply replace labor!
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/10/2026
The Liberals and Conservatives just voted together to attack labour, environmental, and Indigenous rights to fast-track corporate mega projects. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Conservatives vote with Liberals as Bill C-39 heads to committee
A key piece of the Carney government’s economic agenda, Bill C-39, passed its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday when Conservatives voted with the majority Liberals to send the bill for study...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So many questions, all of which speak to the credibility of the Carney government & its overall strategy for managing the Canada-US relationship. 1 “In a statement to CBC News, GAC did not deny that it had concerns with describing the U.S. as a foreign interference threat.” Why not? It clearly is.
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Canada yanks sponsorship of disinformation conference discussing U.S. as a threat | CBC News
The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.
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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing makes liberals more angry than a leftist pointing out that they do not live by the values they espouse
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
kenklippenstein.com
The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's depressing to see people try to optimize the joy out of their life
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2. The worst attack against Jewish people since the Holocaust occured in 1976, at the hands of the US-backed right-wing military junta “Dirty War” in Argentina. Estimates of the number of Jews killed are in the range of 2,000–3,000. Get your facts straight you dick
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Man if he thinks what Hamas did on Oct 7th 2023 is bad, he should look at what Israel did October 8th and onwards, or Oct 6th and before. Peanuts in comparison
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm checking labels, avoiding travel, even adjusting my portfolio, heck I went three months without romaine lettuce just to boycott American products and this guy is giving them billions. So tired of this shit and the manipulation of Canadians. #cdnpoli
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 05/10/2026
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 06/10/2026
AI companies should be nationalized if they won't be shut down. They stole all their data from us, it's rightfully ours.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 05/10/2026
Whistleblower Who Outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Ties Dies
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Whistleblower Who Outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Ties Dies
The whistleblower who brought to light Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's ties to Jeffrey Epstein reportedly died by suicide in late September. The post Whistleblower Who Outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Ties Dies first appeared on Mediaite.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 04/10/2026
"Make sure you try to avoid this terrible fate that we will do nothing about ameliorating for the people unlucky enough to have to do these jobs we definitely need someone to do" seems like a weird place for the discourse to land
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Investing in oil rn feels like investing into oil laterns after the lightbulb became popular
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"In partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Metis, our government is...*checks notes* uhh definitely not fight First Nation groups in court about the right to water? Wait we're doing that? Fuck it they'll never know" Like father like son
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The funny thing is that this is not even good for datacenters because they are all competing with each other driving up the prices of the limited resources they need to be constructed, and then most of these will be insolvent within this decade. It’s a shit ton of money to throw in the burn pile.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mark Carney is complicit in Israel's genocide and anyone who speaks up about it within his own party is quickly reprimanded and demoted
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The stranglehold that Carney has over Canadian boomers is honestly kinda freaky. I have yet to ask a question about why people like Carney's policies (not him personally) without getting blocked instantly
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Principled" if that principle is "Bend over backwards for billionaires and war criminals"
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Wil Weston @wilweston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Recommended thread. 🧵
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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Albertans become aware Danielle Smith is their Premiere.
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Carney is going to be Canada's Ronald Reagan. (Both inexplicably popular and disastrous to the country in the long term)
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
STOP. BELIEVING. CARNEY'S ETC. SPIN. Carney et. al. HINT at maybe doing positive things, often in foreign media. To distract us from what they are actually doing here: bsky.app/profile/cono... Privatization. Cuts to workers rights & environment. Tax cuts for Trump's ultra-rich friends. #CDNpoli
middleeasteye.net
Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant
Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is the "Affordable rental housing" they're trying to preserve in the room? Because I live in "the most affordable province in the country", and I'm not seeing the "affordable rentals" they're talking about.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.
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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mark Carney is the best in his field -- funnelling money into the pockets of wealthy robber barons, while laying waste to social services, human rights and the supports of continued human life on Earth. It's what Business expertise does. @thestar.com @theglobeandmail.com @theguardian.com
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another example of "If a Conservative did this policy Liberal voters would be outraged but since it's Carney they'll sweep it under the rug"
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's so frustrating seeing what Carney is doing to Canada. The "center left" Liberals (they were always just centrist imo) are just fully a conservative party now, the Conservative's have to swing further right and bait race/identity issues again to try to gain any sort sort of relevance.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Translation: When Canada wants something built, I will encourage Americans to build it, and by "it" , I mean something else entirely!
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The message is clear: Canada is for sale to the Epstein class
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19/09/2026
Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes
thebeaverton.com
Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes
OTTAWA — After multiple labour sources warned that the Federal government would likely be issuing binding mediation legislation as early as next week, Mark Carney personally assured Canadians that eve...
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn I've been 4/4 on musicians that I disliked who turned out to be bozos in the last few years. Drake, Tswift, Ed Sheeran, and Disturbed
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wonder if there is another country similar to Canada that also heavily incentivized capitol investment? I bet it worked out very well for them and definitely didn't lead them into a fascistic spiral
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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
vintage cushbomb
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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 07/07/2026
degrowth larry summers on Twitter
@nkulw

Great time to be a hater, many things suck and many people are stupid
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
guys when he says "You asked for this" he's not talking to YOU the Canadian voter, he's talking to his oil exec buddies obviously
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ben @antwithgun.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Write your MP's against this now
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