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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The number of separatists in Alberta is very small, but every single one of them will vote in the separation referendum. It’s critical that everyone who doesn’t want separation votes as well, or else this could easily be Canada’s own Brexit moment. Don’t assume anything. Vote.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 14h

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Jeff Abbott @jeffabbott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Self regulation they said

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm old enough* to remember when calling a woman a dog because she was a political opponent would be a career-ending moment. *More than ten years old

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm proud of this one. We can make Vision Zero a reality in #NewWest. We can end road deaths and serious injuries. We can lead the province and demonstrate it can be done. And I'm committed to seeing it through. I just need your vote. www.communityfirstnw.ca/patrick_john...

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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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Cara Stern @carastern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Overriding local decisions that allow for more housing supply makes zero sense. Watching a conservative government add heavy regulation to free-market housing supply is simply mind-boggling.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

there's a premise in harmony by project itoh about losing consciousness by automating the human body and mind. "the harmonious brain is a brain with all uncertainty removed" it's ironic that these guys argue ai is conscious when they ultimately want to live an unconscious life

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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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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Zero people lost their properties. Repealing the rights of Indigenous people as your core policy is nazi shit

A new Conservative AI campaign ad showing that they will repeal the rights of Indigenous people "FULL STOP"

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 07/10/2026

Poll modeling shows Doug Ford's PCs could win another majority government on just 34% of the vote. First-past-the-post bails out unpopular governments while the rest of us suffer. We need proportional representation so governments always represent a broad majority.

A screenshot of a post by Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) with the text "PC Majority on these numbers" above a table displaying political party polling projections. The table lists party percentages, projected seats, and seat ranges: Green Party (GRN) at 5%, 2 seats (range 2-2); New Democratic Party (NDP) at 27%, 33 seats (range 27-41); Liberal Party (LIB) at 26%, 20 seats (range 13-29); Progressive Conservative Party (PC) at 34%, 66 seats (range 52-78); and Others (OTH) at 8%, 3 seats (range 2-4). Below the table is a quoted post from Polling Canada detailing Ontario Provincial Polling results and percentage changes from the 2025 election: PCPO at 34% (-9), ONDP at 27% (+8), OLP at 26% (-4), GPO at 5% (-), and Others at 8%. The polling metadata notes Mainstreet, Sept 29, 2026, a sample size of n=1062, a margin of error of 2.8%, and IVR methodology, ending with a link to check out more details on @338Canada.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/10/2026

The brave people at the "party of public safety" don't care if you die as long as it saves drivers 10 seconds

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

most cucked man alive

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pro police and "public safety" party btw

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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 06/10/2026

A pretty impactful policy that has received zero media coverage (as far as I can tell). But “Premier made billionaire sad” gets plenty of columns #bcPoli

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TheIrishCommentator @irishcommentator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’re burning the planet for this

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all the money in the world, and the billionaires cannot buy the ability to tell a single funny joke, to have a spark of talent in the arts, to hold a single original idea. they know this and it kills them

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would have gone with "Sam Altman is an untrustworthy opportunist" but that's just me

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s pretty clear that a primary goal of the companies behind AI is to deskill learners and workers en masse, and in turn make people dependant on the tech to do the most basic tasks.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course the Super Intelligence Force is filled entirely with people who don't know their own addresses.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026

Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting."

"There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise Philly is a real place and I am a journalist and this is all true. When you put unwanted dystopian robots on our sidewalks, you never know what Philly may do in response. Meet Orifice the Awebot, who's spreading joy, surprise & mild terror - for free. www.inquirer.com/life/orifice...

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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots

"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The woman beside him is the leader of the anti-LGBTQ+ and separatist movement in Canada. Everything from Indigenous rights to protecting minorities goes out the window for the oil and gas lobby

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If your goal is to push people to a product or service (or ideology!), you need to establish that AI is coming to these conclusions on its own, and therefore more trustworthy than someone with an obvious agenda. Chatbots can be leaned on by their owners, but most users don't know that.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026

Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.

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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it

New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...

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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis

His Yom Kippur message was indefensible

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Parliament Hill this morning for the flag raising ceremony that will begin a day of solemn remembrance on this Truth and Reconciliation Day. It seems even more important this year, in a moment of rising residential school denialism. #cdnpoli #Canada #yow #Ottawa

An audience, dressed in orange shirts (and rain coats) sit on a foggy, slightly drizzly morning in front of a stage set up in front of the parliamentary visitors centre. In the background, one can see the construction equipment renovating Centre Block.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which means when we attack Europe, we will bomb kindergartens and hospitals instead.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

The performance of not needing to bother with knowing things about the world or how to operate in it as a pretension of fronting to higher levels of social value in the post-information age continues apace.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026

I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know… If you just prosecuted companies and individuals in companies whose products were breaking the law, this sort of thing would stop.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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