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Hmm, I don't understand how a device could get internet access with no internet connection, unless somehow the manufacturer set up some sort of cellular or satellite signal? I'm referring to home appliances; commercial ones may be different

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 16h

By its very creation, generative AI is an unethical theft of human work

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 16h

Someone walked around doing a temperature check every hour. There are also systems to check the temperature and then automatically call someone to check. When I worked in a secure lab, that's what they used; not possible to hack this way.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 16h

We just didn't give it the wifi password. But yes, we should have the option of "dumb" appliances

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 17h

State-run media, like Stalin had.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyone who does polls can you add a question like "Would you send Donald Trump to Iran in chains if it cuts gas prices in half"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friendly reminder that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social thinks we should "turn the page" on these guys even though they're literally doing "show me your papers" shit after raiding the house of someone he works with. Every day. Who has the same job as him.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

More than whatever Hakeem Jeffries is doing

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some real Nazi shit, jesus

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oooh looking forward to it! Love your show and have definitely recommended it to friends :-) Take care, Kaveh!

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah none of the AI bros give one tiny crap about any humans hurt by their products. Projecting some image of power/sentience OTOH, provides them a path to ask for more money or argue for less oversight. "Robots deserve rights" sounds insane but they are trying it

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I must be doing something right because this made me think of all these fine podcasters doing the work @kavehmd.bsky.social and @maintenancephase.bsky.social and @iwriteok.bsky.social and @sarahtaber.bsky.social

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Got a heat pump installed this year. Hell yeah

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Because lots of people, especially white people, are happy to ignore a lot of warning signs until somewhere they take that step into starting to get it. It's not fair, it'd be great if our education system addressed the actual history, but that's what I'm thinking about.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Agree but for some people the pathway has to be laid out like: okay Islamic State does this. North Korea does this. Jim Crow South did this. Trump's doing this. What does that say about where our country has been and appears to be going?

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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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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A good percentage of people would certainly be willing to destroy AI data centers by whatever means possible, and if the government just refused to send police or if the government were nonfunctional, AI could be destroyed rapidly.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If AI kills a whole bunch of people and causes untold others to suffer through some sort of apocalypse, it's less the companies would be worrying about regulations and more they should be worried that governments won't enforce normal private property laws.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, when the "researchers" say that AI could destroy humanity, it's stuff like this (& of course climate crisis) rather than some existential thing. Hallucinating a nuclear war that becomes an actual nuclear war is another option

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A missed opportunity? It was an unconstitutional looting of the federal government that will hurt the US and world forever

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh yeah, our governor race had the D show up to debate but not the bananapants R

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, I regularly say "shut the f--- up!" at, like, my car or the stove beeping at me, yet I don't think I have ever screamed that at an actual person or pet nor typed that directly to someone online.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hope they go much further than "call out".

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's what the microplastics are for

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean, aren't both of those evidence of increasing authoritarianism? Lots of authoritarian regimes, which includes the Antebellum and Jim Crow South, perform live executions as a means of power display.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They didn't say this in the episode but I think it kind of fits. People don't know how the popcorn button works, it fails catastrophically sometimes, there are warnings not to use it even though the button is there, people do anyway for the convenience. All also true of AI

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm going to keep calling it AI to avoid sounding like the complete opposite of intelligent

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But that's probably cheaper than the average rich person's domestic help, and more than middle class people who have a biweekly cleaning person come in or whatever

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I suppose it would depend on the income from this theoretical 3 day per week job. I'm also skeptical about what it could replace, having experienced a Roomba myself

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The question is the first problem, as it's not something that is "personally defined". Like asking how someone "personally defines" democracy or something

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who's going to afford those robots? The purpose of robots like that is so the rich don't have to pay for domestic help (or deal with the poors and/or immigrants at all, ever)

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, but cutting off foreign students hurts universities with smaller endowments or public funding much more than Ivies that have existed longer than the US as an independent nation has

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even if this particular story is not true for this particular family, I have definitely met men who would do this (or heard stories from their suffering wives or happy-to-be-ex-wives). Long before the internet, my grandfather, for instance

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ugh, I'm sorry you had to deal with a partner like that

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If a father doesn't even want to read to his kid, how will he do any of those unpleasant things? He probably won't, meaning you will because someone has to. And now you're doing 90+% of the childcare plus whatever else.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Men think women are dating to "looksmax" but really it's more like trying to weed out a guy who would do crap like this. Reading to your baby is a pleasant activity compared to diaper changing, soothing a crying infant, or dealing with a toddler meltdown.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, sad, but also exemplifies what plenty of women say about not wanting kids. When you have to fight your partner on even the most basic child-raising activities, it's just endless exhaustion.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It seems way more believable to me that a man wouldn't see the point of reading in person to his baby than that a man would make this up and post it.

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Downloading now, as someone who loves popcorn and also avoids the popcorn button. Curious whether the popcorn button is a metaphor for AI? Guess I will find out!

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh yeah a reboot but instead of the dad being gone physically, he is just on his devices and at the end it's just about the dad staring at his family all on their phones at dinner

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kyle Clark is fantastic. Been doing great work for quite some time

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Could it possibly be that some of us assessed the ROI of having children and concluded it was quite low and therefore not worth doing? Oh no, can't do a capitalist assessment of having kids, that would fly in the face of the extremely male-biased field of economics!

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A few years ago, I helped out with a state senate candidate and someone shot a gun in her direction during the campaign (unclear if they missed on purpose or not)

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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why I lost interest. It could have been a more interesting commentary on wealth inequality, policing, racism, and addiction, but yeah just devolved into him being an increasingly terrible, unhinged person.

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