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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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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Really loved the way they had the leafcutters set up in the butterfly house here. Insectarium Montréal

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Biollante @bivouacchillin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not now, I'm thinking about the 17th century Japanese dragonfly helmet

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's so scary that an institution with more resources than god managed to do something with those resources. how will the mathematical community ever deal with it

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

everytime i try to use AI to understand a piece of math i am confronted with how bad it is at understanding human reasoning. it’s extremely bad at identifying and elucidating confusing points and overexplains things that are obvious in context

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the headphones arch is the halo of the modern saint

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

me: idk man im having a really hard time. everything feels so violent and pointless and i feel like i keep running without getting anywhere and my friend, donald uchiha: the senju deepstate hates our beautiful police officers

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 27/09/2026

Did you know humans around the world have made string figures (cat's cradles)? And even stranger, the exact same figures to surprising degrees of complexity. In the thread below, we try to unravel this mystery:

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

when you really want to talk about two fun documentaries you saw this weekend but you forgot how to do anything other than being a piece of shit

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

not a Biffmore graduate

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one important step towards recognizing keith conrad as the most impactful mathematician of our time

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˖˚ʚわかɞ˚˖ @skaspec.yuri.agency · 30/08/2026

incredible interaction i saw in the comments section of downdetector earlier

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

sometimes my laptop overheats when downloading big textbooks. can't wait to see a supernova when a 50 tb rogue agi sneakily tries to copy itself to my machine and discovers the joys of normal hardware

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Il Risorgimento delle Coscienze

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

guy who has been eating every gram of rotten meat in his vicinity for 2 years straight: wait a fucking minute

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

maybe navier-stokes was always easy to solve but doing analysis deep fries your brain a little too much

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TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m jacking off once more. How pedestrian. Utterly predictable. Ah, that familiar flood of “warmth” - one guess as to what happens next here. Humph, seems the body continues to disappoint

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texas instruments is a scam @newagepancake.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"cats are dirty why would you let them on the counter" if you think for a second that my body isn't going to regocnize any bacteria from my biological son as an ally, you know nothing about me

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Approximate size (depending on how you’re viewing this) of a black hole with the same mass as the Earth. Formation mechanisms that could produce such a small black hole are purely hypothetical.

A png showing a faint blue grid with a black disk in the middle. The diameter of the disk is marked as 0.7 inches. Lines across the top and left-hand sides indicate the background is 4in x 3in.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i love that whenever one piece starts to feel about something oda brings in a characters to monologue about how its slop and if you want it to convey anything you are a fascist

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i would read upwards of 375 tight pages about the history of the slutty waist

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mechanically separated woman @euphory.gay · 03/09/2026

okay so this is just something i've been kicking around in my head a bit but i read @margaretprice.bsky.social's Mad at School for a health humanities research group last fall, and the "rhetorical" approach to disability really stuck with me... as a framework for approaching LLMs

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

one day you catch your reflection in a train window and realize people probably read you as a man™ and okay that's mildly disgusting but it's not like you really care too much about it anyway as a sage once said: should i get earrings and shave my eyebrows

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

all this knowledge all this power all this modernity and we still haven't found a way to write a fantasy book that is actually good

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the illustrious "if you ain't on the team you playin' for team D" theory of international relations

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ghost Elephants is pretty good but i do not fully get Herzog's shtick. sometimes his narrations are genuinely moving and capture something about his pov that enriches the whole film. sometimes he completely deflates the power of the images by going "bro this is so fucking deep brooo"

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hubble 5 "Hubble Double Bubble" - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/fPtZgw

Can't say I added much to what's already been done with this nebula, but I thought I'd try and see what happened especially since I haven't tried a bipolar nebula before.

There's no wideband data available which makes me wonder how it would look with the usual f555w filter included.

I am guilty of increasing the brightness of the blue channel greatly compared to the others because I like the indigo color produced. Still, blue is OIII as usual and it's interesting that it seems to lag behind the rest of the nebula so emphasizing it makes that easier to see. I had to double check that my f502n data was really from the same year because it seemed like it was from an earlier time frame.

There are also some repeating concentric structures in this one that look sort of like light echoes. It would be easy to check if there were any images available from another year but I couldn't find any.

Red: hst_06502_01_wfpc2_f673n_wf_sci + hst_06502_01_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci
Green: hst_06502_01_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci + hst_06502_01_wfpc2_f631n_wf_sci
Blue: hst_06502_01_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci

North is NOT up.

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

you shaved your head because of pattern baldness I shaved my head took like the lil guy from citizen sleeper. we are not the same

Cover of the "Citizen Sleeper" video game. A genderless android surrounded by a sleepy black cat and computer parts all floating in a field of bright yellow

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

we didn't give cute studies enough respect and now the most fashionable piece of clothing for anybody under 30 is a snoopy embroidered t-shirt

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Arp 86 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2hZKfcy

A big spiral galaxy interacting with a smaller, irregular-looking galaxy. This pair is sitting near the edge of some faint Milky Way dust & gas, though it is hard to see in the Hubble image. Check the Legacy Survey widefield view to see it.

A widefield color view is available here: legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=356.7681&dec=29.4835&l...

Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems

All Channels: ACS/WFC F606W

North is 1.99° clockwise from up.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

just one more bomb bro, please bro, just one more bomb dropped on some schoolkids and theyll totally rise up to overthrow their government, bro please

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the humongous power of a homosexual with a good beard is still a mystery to a lot of people

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/08/2026

"I believe a Lutheran is one who goes about teaching bad things, and eats meat on Friday and Saturday" go the fuck off Menocchio hell yeah brother 🔥🔥🔥 "The pope is a man like us and the sacraments are mere merchandise sold by priests" 🫵😡 GUARDS! GUARDS! SIEZE THE RABBLE ROUSER MENOCCHIO IMMEDIATELY

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

born to be a stay at home wifeguy, condemned to be an unemployed homosexual

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gab @gaybriele.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

reading the ikea manual explains how to build ikea furniture but unfortunately it also deprives you of the chance to feel like the world is unknowable and uncaring and all your efforts are wasted which i'm starting to think is most of what my family wants out of the experience of building furniture

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Let's Learn Everything! @llepodcast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 ASTRONAUT ON THE PODCAST!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! 🚨 The illustrious Cady Coleman joins us to answer all our silly and serious questions about space, from telerobotic surgery under water, to cutting toe nails in zero g, to sleep flashes, to the importance of seeing yourself in spaces and in space!!

A photo of Cady Coleman, Tom Lum, Ella Hubber, and Caroline Roper on a zoom call laughing. Text on screen says "Let's Learn Everything Episode 111 Astronaut Cady Coleman"

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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