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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 11h
Alberta’s premier lavishes praise on Ottawa for how much it collaborated with the province before making new court appointments, days before Alberta’s referendum Q that proposes to constutionally overhaul the way judges are picked. (bonus, surely, that one new judge was her deputy Justice minister)
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 11h
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 11h
Please please someone ask him about provincial housing gatekeeping
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 12h
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 12h
Farkas comes out swinging at provincial meddling in urban planning.. “It’s about whether your vote matters here in Calgary”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
And removed sanctions from Russia on the same day.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
I doubt Russia has tons of diesel to export. They're in a fuel shortage crisis. It'd be illegal, violating sanctions. And awful strategy while Russia is attacking Ukraine, menacing NATO allies, and helping Iran target Americans. But looks like Trump trying to jawbone markets before the midterms.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 13h
Context: 300k tonnes of diesel = 93 million gallons. US uses 160 to 170 million gallons per day - so 300k tonnes would last 13-14 hours. Total order of 1.8 million tonnes = ~82 hours of US use = ~3 days 10 hours. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Unilaterally Ends American Sanctions on Russian Energy Products and Announces That America Will Now Help Finance the Genocide Against Europeans in Ukraine; Russia and America Now Co-Rogue States, with America Funding Two Genocides and Russia One
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h
Democratic leaders surely know this and yet insist on trying to find the magic formula for a glowing NYT oped instead of flipping the table and going full feral meme content generation
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 14h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14h
Trump throws Putin yet another lifeline while russia intensifies its killing of Ukrainian civilians. Every American who loves democracy and freedom should be deeply ashamed of their govt and working to punish it for this betrayal of basic American values and interests.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14h
Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 14h
"No one really controls the Great Lakes. That’s a massive piece of water — you can’t control that. What you can do is make it better or worse on your side of the border." A Great Lakes expert on the real threat facing Lake Ontario & friends: weakened enviro protections. thenarwhal.ca/lake-ontario...
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Lake Ontario: Donald Trump and the great distraction
‘If you can’t understand the lakes, you can’t protect the lakes’: a former director of the committee overseeing Canada-U.S. water relations says the real threat to the Great Lakes is a shift away from research and monitoring
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
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RE 🇨🇦 @hewer-of-code.bsky.social · 17h
From the 'No Shit!' Files www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Fuel tax pause offers bigger break to higher-income families: budget watchdog
The parliamentary budget officer says Ottawa’s gas tax pause is offering a bigger break at the pumps to the households that earn the most.
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chaning.bsky.social @chaning.bsky.social · 17h
Here's the full post: civicgood.substack.com/p/reactionar...
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Reactionary populism comes for housing affordability and rule of (by)law in Edmonton
So much for the Alberta Advantage
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 18h
Alberta's government showing the deepest contempt for the future, alongside the richest hypocrisy imaginable
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Jordyn Marcellus @jordynmarcellus.ca · 20h
the king of canadian urbanism, the man who helped set edmonton on the path the UCP crushed underneath their boot just absolutely taking it to the province:
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 19h
One thing about people citing slower car travel times on Bloor West following the bike lane install is, well, that was kind of the point. Drivers were **averaging** nearly 20 km/h over the current speed limit at spots. Road revamp has brought speeds closer to limit. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
Two bar charts comparing average and 95th percentile vehicle speeds in km/h across five Toronto locations over three time periods (2021/23, 2024, 2025/26), with a posted speed limit of 40 km/h indicated by a dotted line.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 19h
Doug Ford lighting traffic-snarling bonfires of your money and throwing the odd body on in the hopes of keeping his base warm.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 09/10/2026
We've let the dumbest motherfucking reactionary ignorant dipshits change decades of smart policies and societal practices.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026
nationalize everything Elon Musk owns.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democratic candidates forthrightly opposing tariffs. Straight into my veins.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
“Lynching” in the US is not a singular phenomenon. The lynching you are describing is a “racial terror” lynching. There were “public spectacle lynchings,” which have elements of the former but are not identical. There are also “legal lynchings” which were the summary use of capital punishment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Dizzygirl @dizzygirl.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
And it's working. Congrats, you rubes. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Radio Rwanda
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026
It seems apt that on an afternoon when Pew Research shows his approval rating nearing the 40-points-underwater threshold, Trump would try to salvage matters by shouting online: *Look! N––ers!!!*
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s no way they would gain statehood. Look how long Washington DC has tried to become a state. No they’ll end up being an imperialist outpost where America can dump a couple of military bases and take the oil as payment for using the greenback
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Between Smith and Ford, conservative premiers really waging a full-spectrum war against the principle of subsidiarity.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyway, it’s headed to committee now. Can’t wait for a fulsome study (blind approval with a tiny bit of pushback from the bloc).
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only 26 MPs voted against the Bill at this first vote. From what I saw, it was entirely NDP, Bloc and Green who opposed it. Conservatives and Liberals all appeared to vote for it. Those 14 Liberals who claimed to care about the environment……very curious where your spine is?
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/10/2026
What I *really* want an interviewer to do with these desperate sweaty CEOs is say, "Now that Trump has said he wants you to call it 'Trump Intelligence' instead of 'Super Intelligence', are you planning to update your marketing?" and then don't reveal that you made it up until after they say yes.
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David Antoš 🇪🇺 @davidantos.cz · 08/10/2026
Enemy of the free world
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chaning.bsky.social @chaning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Premier Smith would skewer you if you were to ever bring these kinds of designs to Edmonton 🤣
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Weird when people argue that a municipal change is both 1/ super controversial and unpopular 2/ off the radar of almost everyone
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chaning.bsky.social @chaning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is real and not a nightmare. We're now living it here.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, she's with Edmonton Neighbourhoods United. Last I heard about that group they were promoting restrictive covenants to thwart development. More, uh, local democracy in action
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Save my high blood pressure for local issues aka my beat Save my high blood pressure for local issues aka my beat Save my high blood pressure for local issues aka my beat Save my high blood pressure for local issues aka my beat Save my high blood pressure for local issues aka my beat Save my high bl
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