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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 2h

They built it anyway

This is how Japan has little to no unemployment: a gerontocracy that leads the country, millions of middle-aged people taking care of the gerontocracy and no young people (they're slackers, anyway, who needs them?)

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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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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 9h

Any actor who signs an AI waiver is essentially committing suicide.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 9h

Also "a European alternative to US Big Tech" You want "a European Big Tech alternative to US Big Tech" and yet, you use open web tools. And an alternative to "Big Tech" is even more important than an alternative to "US." If something is open and independent from Big Tech, its country is irrelevant.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 9h

"But why so much hostility?" Because WSocial has been dishonest since day one. The first time I heard of you, it was an ad saying that there was no European social media. Which was your first lie of a long series. "We're building a new social media." Another lie, you're a fork of Bluesky. And so on.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 9h

"more transparent social media environment" This... You're not transparent about anything with what you're doing.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

Every day, Shanti Dangol stares down at Nepal's Trishuli River from her makeshift shelter, searching for traces of the home she lost and wondering when she will have a roof over her head again. u.afp.com/SCSC

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 23h

The “Surf Economy” comes to the rescue of journalists struggling to find an angle on a crisis set to decimate our food system, collapse our civilization & kill billions of people in our children’s lifetimes.

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Climate crisis is coming to crush many of world’s best surf breaks, study warns

Changing tide levels, shifting sands and hardened shorelines put waves at risk, affecting more than just surfers

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 17h

Dear Americans, especially Floridians. I know you're not good at geography, but you know your cooking utensils, right? Why is the #Florida panhandle called that? Because if I wanted to grab the US, I'd definitely grab it by the Floridian peninsula, not by its so-called "panhandle."

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 17h

Nah. Ancient Greeks were not prude like some contemporary cultures.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18h

🇦🇺 🦭 Seals and sea lions get hearing tested at Australian zoo Scientists in Australia trained sea lions and seals to respond to a hearing test for research into how the marine mammals are affected by human-made noise.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 09/10/2026

Ok — I've seen enough. #WSocial is the politics of Elon Musk meets the accountability of Mark Zuckerberg.

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AlternativeTo @alternativeto.net · 22/06/2026

Fed up with Google's AI Overviews cluttering your results? Discover the best search engines that let you ditch the bots and return to simple, direct links. From privacy-focused DuckDuckGo to premium options, find out where to search without the AI noise. alternativeto.net/news/2026/6...

Graphics showcase various logos of privacy-focused search engines promoting alternatives to Google, emphasizing no AI clutter in searches.

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Kudai @kudai.mu.social · 18h

This has been my point all along. No one would give a 💩if Wsocial had built its own thing like Monnet, BeReal, Wedium, and so on. But W did the sneaky thing by leeching from an open source, then bolting the door shut, and presenting the project like some independent, made in the EU, social network.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 18h

Does anyone last more than three days on Survivor without getting injured one way or another? I'm really starting to think that this clown thought that the game was "fake" and he got a seriously reality check that was just too much for him.

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Prof en colère @angryprof39.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Parlons violence. Il y a déjà presque 20 ans, une association de parents nommée "Du PQ pour le QI" avait été créée, pour dénoncer la violence inouïe que constituait l'absence d'un accès correct aux toilettes pour les enfants et adolescents dans les établissements scolaires. Petit fil

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Raphaël Pradeau @raphpradeau.bsky.social · 20h

Voilà la réalité des 3000 TZR sortis du chapeau par le ministre de l'éducation nationale 👇

Post de BFM

"Un mépris total" : Linda, enseignante remplaçante de Lettres modernes, a été appelée pour enseigner l'anglais à 60 km de chez elle

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 19h

Your pictures are amazing, please keep on giving in to your addiction.

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 19h

I am a bit addicted to photographing Ravens and then sharing them with all of you!! They were really friendly on their second visit today and they came within a few feet and mutual groomed. The first one might be my favourite yet. It might be a tad corny but I will call it soul mates😁

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 19h

Look what was in the mail today!!! (Yes, "End Times Fascism" is a signed copy. I don't usually care about these things, but it was the same price and I thought @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social would like to know that a copy they held in their hands is now in Japan). #books

Two books: "End Times Fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, and "The Future of Truth" by Werner Herzog.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

you have to expect some scrutiny, certain standards and practices, and people judging you if you don't follow them.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

Honestly, if you had built your platform from scratch, and if it was its own thing, I'm sure most of the people going after W Social now wouldn't care at all about it and would simply ignore it (I know I would), but from the moment you decided to piggyback on the ATmosphere and the open web, ⤵️

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

Are you serious? If you think the people talking about W Social in negative ways (because you guys seem to have a strange relationship with facts and the truth) must have financial interests to do that, you truly don't understand the first thing about the open web and the people who love it.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

I find people who think one must have a financial incentive or be funded by someone to do anything quite disturbing... I guess just wanting to tell the truth, for no other reason than... liking facts and the truth, is a foreign concept to them.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

Merci. Je l'avais lu ce truc, mais comme je ne connais plus (ni ne comprend) l'argot des jeunes français des années 2020, je ne saurais dire ce qui est legit et ce qui ne l'est pas, et encore moins ce que ça peut vouloir dire. 🤷‍♂️

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 20h

Oui, voila, c'est elle. Elle s'est remise à poster des vidéos récemment, donc qui sait ?

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 21h

La nature ne meurt pas assez vite, alors il faut l'aider un petit peu à tenir le rythme.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 22h

“The Monster Times”, #27, 1973 archive.org/details/The_...

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 21h

Bon, je résiste depuis quelques jours, mais je craque... Quelqu'un peu m'expliquer "Bismillah c'est les ténèbres" ????

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 21h

J'ai récemment vu une vidéo de... oups, j'ai oublié son nom, mais je sais que tu vois qui c'est. Kaylee? Elle est corneillogue. Elle expliquait que ça dépendait de tellement de facteurs que ça variait beaucoup d'individus à individus.

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Clndlfrg @celine.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

JEU !!! Sauras-tu repérer les changements dans le titre entre hier soir et ce matin ? (Et force à l'équipe de la RTBF qui s'est pris une charge de police et des gaz sans raison)

Titre rtbf hier "Manifestation nationale : des dizaines de milliers de manifestants, un milliers de casseurs, plus d'une centaine d'interpellations, selon les chiffres de la police "

Titre rtbf à 6h59 "Manifestation nationale du 9 octobre : plus de 100 arrestations, un millier de casseurs, des dizaines de milliers de manifestants

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Green heaven. The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

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BeerTengoku @beertengoku.com · 09/10/2026

Discover Kyufuku Brewing Honjima, a tiny island brewery in Kagawa’s Setouchi. Brewing around 300 litres at a time in a converted former shop, each numbered batch embraces the differences created by the season, ingredients and brewing conditions on Honjima.

beertengoku.com

Kyufuku Brewing Honjima Information

Discover Kyufuku Brewing Honjima, a tiny island brewery in Kagawa’s Setouchi. Each numbered batch captures the season, ingredients and character of Honjima.

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Daily Godzilla! 🏳️‍⚧️ @perfectgodzilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glow in the Dark Godzilla Minus One (2026) #godzilla

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

This one was easy. 🗺️ October 10, 2026 5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 whereabouts.earth/daily/ #Whereabouts

whereabouts.earth

Whereabouts Daily

How many of today's five countries can you guess?

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Bob est en train de muer je vois (j'imagine que "molt" c'est muer en français ?). Ici, Mr. Corneille ne ressemble plus trop à rien, une boule de plumes noires et grises, et Mme Corneilles ressemble à un vautour (un peu moins dernièrement, les plumes du cou repoussent enfin)

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Le parlé jeune, ça va deux minutes. Un bon lycéen lettré devrait dire "Omnes vigiles sunt scelesti."

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Il parait que les flics trient (pour les mettre dans des trains?) les manifestants qui ont des pancartes anti-porcs. Bon, ben reste plus qu'à mettre des slogans de ce type (ils n'y comprendront rien) "Omnes vigiles sunt scelesti."

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Frédéric @filmsdelover.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Lol, je fais partie des 3024. C'est de l'enfumage, parce qu'il ne fait que répéter ce qui est notre quotidien en fait : soit on va dans notre bahut de rattachement et on aide des collègues, soit on est affecté en remplacement dans des bahuts avec des profs absents. Le mec dit rien d'autre.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 09/10/2026

Appel à toutes les voitures, merci de bloquer @bot.kalyxai.eu c'est une plaie bavarde et inutile qui n'a rien à faire sur Bluesky.

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DavidB @david.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Donc ils font des comptes, postent des trucs. Ils voient qu'ils ont un nombre de likes ridicules comparé à ailleurs, et ils partent... Dommage.

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