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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/10/2026

Rockstar Announces ‘GTA VI’ Soundtrack Contains 10,000 Songs By Randy Newman theonion.com/rockstar-announces-gta…

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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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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SOME DAY - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELOTIN STICKEN HALF OUT OF A MEAT GRINDER AND THE GRINDER ALREADY GOT HALF OF THEM AND THERE LIKE WELL A LIL MORE WONT HURT , AND BESIDE , MAYBE THIS TIME IT WILL IMPRESS SOMEONE AT WORK , AND ILL GET REWARDED IN SOME WAY FOR SACRIFICING MY PHYSICAL SELF TO THE PURSUIT OF A RICH GUYS NUMBER GOING UP , AND DA TEXT "MAYBE IF I SACRIFICE ENOUGH OF MY BODY TO DA GRINDER THELL LET ME CRANK THE HANDLE SOME DAY " - GOTTA BE SOON RIGHT - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tech execs do not have, like, a theory of mind for people who aren’t tech execs. If they did, they wouldn’t be so frequently baffled by how repulsive normal people think their whole deal is right now

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/08/2026

Black Homeowner Receives Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank

Image on a tshirt of a strawberry with a face and human hands holding two guns that are pointed at the viewer. Underneath it says “this is a strobbery”

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 28/07/2026

Anyway, the first real world usage of this is going to be on unarmed minority students or student protestors.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 08/07/2026

"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."

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Bernie Sanders is mad about the Xbox layoffs

The senator from Vermont is pretty chapped about the price hikes, too.

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Nova The CyberMage💜⭐ @cybermagenova.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

A screenshot from Fire Emblem with a CG of Lyn on a sunset background saying, "I do not love my country. I love the people in it and want their needs met."

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

‘We ♥️ indies until the next financial quarter’ feels too wordy

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme

Trump at the Libertarian Convention in 2024

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Barky @barky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@grubb.wtf you have to use this for grubb guesser

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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Andrew @digitalcantina.com · 12/06/2026

These fucks will blame Anything, ANYTHING but cost of living. What is so hard to belive about this. I dont understand. How can journalists be so fucking dense.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

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Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/06/2026

I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)

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Would You Just Look At This Shit

Even if you put AI ethics and tech's support of fascism aside (which you shouldn't), the quality control at major tech companies has become an embarrassing and dangerous mess as companies try to justi...

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Grave Robber-tson 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026

are you just going to do this for every generation

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Barky @barky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

kof xiii is the most gorgeous fighting game ever made and its not even close

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Barky @barky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

10 years ago I beat dark souls 2. It took me 36 tries to beat the fume knight. I have come back 10 years later after playing and beating every souls game: it took me 3 attempts. You really do level up over time.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I think the tonal thing I miss in Star Trek is the arrogance of its optimism. It wasn’t ostensively trying to convince you of its progressive values, it was flat out telling you that one day you and your petty bigotries would be dead and gone and laughed at. I’d like some of that energy in the 2030s

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I talk to clients at least once a week over the last year who say something to the effect of "if we have to do AI risk evaluation and governance at the scale the business wants to deploy use cases, we'd need to add so much headcount in security that we'd lose any gains." Me: yes, you get it now.

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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

A Reddit Post

Hasbro just hired a notorious union-busting firm
News
I've been tracking the NLRB filing for the new Arena Union (UWOTC-CWA) since they announced on Monday. The devs gave Hasbro until this Friday (International workers day) to voluntarily recognize them.
In response, Hasbro hired a well known union busting firm Fisher Phillips, to oversee this debacle.
WoTC also responded to the news with this statement which is riddled with anti union wording (in my opinion) such as the "we are a family" vibe and also "direct relationship with our employees"
Hopefully, Hasbro/WoTC is just using this firm as a "how to not screw everything up" instead of actually attempting to fight the imminent union.
Anyways, please support your devs in their efforts to unionize.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.

Look it's a really unhinged rant about contestants wearing nose rings. Too long to type. You're not missing much.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026

We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8

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Troglodyke @ivymaid.northsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sajam has had pretty much every opportunity to sell out and he hasn't, I really appreciate him calling this shit out and not doing work for Evo events

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Nev™ @nev4da.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 20/02/2026

phil spencer collecting his final xbox paycheck

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nightshade →home, for now @nightshade.technology · 18/02/2026

the Konami Python 2 will always be the peak of mid-2000s arcadejank to me imagine being an arcade tech back then, and you finally receive the kit to upgrade your cab from DDR SuperNOVA to SuperNOVA 2, so you open the case to get at the disc drive, and you're met face-to-face with this:

a picture of a Konami Python 2, which is composed of a literal, entire, retail PlayStation 2 console, case and all - exactly the same unit as you'd buy at a store. the PS2 is surrounded by some custom boards, and framed inside a metal box (meant to go inside an arcade cabinet). it looks ridiculously funny.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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