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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 3h
Shoutout to the Black women technologists I've learned from over the years including Dr. Brandeis Marshall who coined the term "algorithmic assault" which she defines as using digital tools and algorithms to purport harm against the marginalized. Seems relevant, considering.
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Brandeis Marshall, PhD | Data Equity Strategist. Speaker. Writer.
Data Equity Strategist. Speaker. Writer. Working at the intersection of data, ethics, social impact & race, gender and class.
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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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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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, massively overreaching for someone with tiny arms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. “And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC, and that rely on American service members for their defence, to rein in this rogue court.
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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On this date in 1979, archivist Joan Schwartz rediscovered the Armstrong, Beere and Hime panorama, a collection of photographs that provide an almost complete panorama of Toronto in 1856-57.
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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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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 08/10/2026
More Carney government cowardice. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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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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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me:| can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you workin Al.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@hudlion

sometimes, I think it would be worse to be an insect and wake up one morning and find you had been transformed into a guy with a job
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Early reports suggest Global Affairs Canada has withdrawn sponsorship of a disinformation conference over a panel discussing the U.S. as a threat vector. If true, this is utterly embarrassing, and a sign Global Affairs is woefully unprepared to engage with the geopolitical context we are in.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In today's @theguardian.com, an article about the #Voynich work Colin Layfield and I have been doing: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On this date in 1757, the Toronto shoreline was first detailed on a French map. It identifies the Credit River (Rivière au Credit), the Humber River (R. Toronto), Fort Rouillé on the Exhibition Grounds, and the Scarborough Bluffs (Les Grandes Ecores).
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On this day in 1864, Joseph Montferrand died. Born in 1802, he became a folk hero to Francophones for his defense of French-Canadian loggers. Since his death, he legacy has grown. Stompin' Tom wrote a song about him and he inspired the Ottawa Redblacks mascot Big Joe .
Joseph Montferrand in a red work shirt flexes his bicep in a vintage-style illustration, striking a heroic pose.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have grading and a writing deadline and my house is gonna be soooooo clean as a result
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
I should probably do something to … update this. Or make it more accessible. Or something lol medium.com/@chanda/deco...
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Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Angie and the Westies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @angieandwesties.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For #NationalPoetryDay, a poem from The People's Friend circa 1977. It cracked me up as a kid and still makes me smile now. "Yul Brynner, I loved you in the King and I, But I always thought you were better as Kojak." Anon
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“There’s a fundamental contradiction between the tone Carney has struck at the summit and while globe-trotting, and the anger he showed this week after the Stelco news.” This is exactly correct. Another way of putting this is that Carney has been trying to run the old FDI playbook in a new world.…
thestar.com
Why laying off 500 workers at Hamilton's Stelco is an unpleasantly familiar warning for Mark Carney
From Stelco to Stellantis to shuttered factories, a pattern keeps repeating — and Carney's summit buzz won't fix it.
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David Gross @grossdr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In addition to the utter disgust and fury I've been feeling towards the sorry excuses for men who raped that young woman at Cornell, she has me thinking of every woman in my life who has trusted me enough to share the story of her own rape. They all share something in common:
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Muddy York @muddyyork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this date in 1760, Major Robert Rogers visited the former site of Fort Rouille. He reported that there were “about 300 acres of cleared lands ... well timbered with large oaks, hickories, maples and some poplars. The soil is clay and the deer are extremely plentiful.”
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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One hang up I have about queer Canadian history is how the 1969 partial decriminalization is discussed. It is often discussed how 1969 didn't really decriminalize homosexuality but my issue is how the bravery of Everett George Klippert is so often erased from the story.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is of course horrifying but what’s also horrifying is that I’ve seen this “make learning FUN” sort of gimmick pushed my entire life. Learning is satisfying but it is rarely “fun”. Learning something profound should be quasi traumatic and wrenching!
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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 27/09/2026
I think a lot of online leftists need to internalize that Zohran is a successful socialist is because he's not a hostile dickhead
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now
A bunch of fucking losers dressed in black with white masks, standing on an overpass with a black banner that says “GOT BONES?”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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NDP @ndp.ca · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted for supporting NDP MP Jenny Kwan’s bill to close a loophole in Canada’s arms sales regime that allows weapons to be shipped via the US to Israel, a country that is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Parliament returned this week and the Liberal government wasted no time unveiling Bill C-39, which among other things would speed up the process of getting major projects started. Niigaan Sinclair shares what he thinks the bill is really about. Truth & Politics: youtu.be/3SLJuS2kfHo
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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, this is ...something: universityaffairs.ca/news/remove-... I am tired. So very tired. This is really hard work. #AcademicSky 🧪
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Remove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says - University Affairs
The Standing Committee on Science and Research says ‘discriminatory’ EDI policies are ‘weakening the quality of Canadian research’.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was asked about by a pro-life student why he should support me…
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Used to work in a small cafe in Carlisle when I overheard a young man deliberating with his friend whether he should move to London or not and was waiting for a sign. I stuck London Calling on and the look he gave his friend stuck with me and I really hope he made it to London.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh my dear god, let your college kids fail. Let them fail courses. Let them fail paying rent. Let them fail doing their laundry. Let them fail basic hygiene. Let them fail and experience consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/w...
nytimes.com
Worried About Your College Kid? Now You Can Hire a Local Mom. (Gift Article)
At some universities, parents can pay to make sure their children are cared for, the way they were back home.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Art, if you want a definition of it, is criminal action. It conforms to no rules. Not even its own. Anyone who experiences a work of art is as guilty as the artist. It is not a question of sharing the guilt. Each one of us gets all of it." - John Cage #quote
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 15/09/2026
Make Colonization Great Again
The painting "American Progress" by John Gast, 1872, altered with Mark Carney's face on the head of a "beautiful and charming female ... floating westward through the air, bearing on her forehead the "Star of Empire" . . . In her right hand she carries a book ... the emblem of education and ... national enlightenment, while with the left hand she unfolds and stretches the slender wires of the telegraph, that are to flash intelligence throughout the land."
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Premier of Manitoba Wab Kinew: "Release the Epstein files. Donald Trump is Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. The reason why we're at war in Iran and everyone's paying higher gas prices is because of the Epstein files."
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do I love more- Marlowe's Dr Faustus or hating on AI? 🔥🔥🔥 Either way
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He's doing racist revisionist history of a white supremacist who starved Indigenous children to death. Even by the standards of the time John A Macdonald shocked parliament by openly stating the "superiority of the aryan race" and that Indigenous and Asian people were a "different species"
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Critical essays that open on fiction are a gift for teaching, and this one is no exception. A little too far removed from the subject of my class this fall but strongly recommend for others to assign. In the current issue of Dissent.
Life Under the Algorithm Veena Dubal and Katie Wells
Elena's phone vibrates before her alarm at 5:12 a.m. She reaches for it
because messages that arrive before dawn tend to matter.
Shift allocation updated.*
Base rate: $31.40/hr
Adjustment factors applied: -$2.10/hr
Net rate: $29.30/hr
*Based on recent attendance volatility, performance signals, and local labor supply conditions.
Last week her base rate was $33. The week before it was $35. There is no supervisor to call to ask why she keeps getting downgraded, no office where she can go to complain. All Elena can do is click a small blue "learn more" button. She has begun to think of her work not as a wage, exactly, but as an assessment of her current economic worth, relative to her coworkers, recalculated daily. A second notification pings.
Access yesterday's earnings early.
Available now: $86.20
Fee: $9.75
APR equivalent: 391 percent
There's fine print here, too: "Based on your projected earnings and spending
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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The manager at our local IKEA is retiring, so I sent him a 🎂 cake. 🍰
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
For people who aren’t familiar with this analysis, I encourage you to do some reading! eg engagement.virginia.edu/node/4641
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J-Term: Slavery as a Sociotechnical System
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Switzerland's military cybersecurity unit, Cyber Command, is not waiting for the civilian pilot. It is already poised to replace Microsoft 365 entirely with openDesk by October 2026.” Meanwhile, Palantir is apparently a Canadian company.
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Henri @henriwords.com · 07/09/2026
French has some great idioms but my absolute favourite is “entre chien et loup” for twilight/dusk It translates as “between dog and wolf” and is intended to evoke that time of falling darkness when it harder to identify what’s approaching you…
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dredthoughts.bsky.social @dredthoughts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not sure how the extra second showed up on the clock.
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dredthoughts.bsky.social @dredthoughts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.maptap.gg September 5 100🎯 100🎯 84😁 94🏅 91👑 Final score: 923
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Classic Rock Junky AKA Todd James @tjsbam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Found another cover that Dolly Parton did. Can’t believe I didn’t come across this sooner. This song I could actually feel as I listened to it. Hope you all find it as moving as I did. #MusicSky #DollyParton youtu.be/plUD6vN80dg?...
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Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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