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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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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Behold! The dark scriptures have been consulted. The forgotten rituals have been completed. Anointments, sacraments, prepared and received. Finger presses glyph. We stand vigilant against the coming plight. Forbidden words echo around our dwelling. "Love, I've turned the central heating on!"

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Finally got around to watching Wolf Hall, charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's council. Looked him up aaand he's basically Tony Soprano?!

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 26/09/2026

I launched my own site today!! www.vgcartography.com all my game maps hi-res, links to videos, and i'm moving any commentary from my blog to get everything in one place free w/o login. tried to make it really easy to use. browse the catalog and gimme feedback!!! 🗺️👀🌐

scrollable game list with platform/tag filters for browsage

text search for game/map names also works

individual map view with pans and zoomies

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This just in: Ed Sheeran, in solidarity with Macklemore, has pulled out of the Ed Sheeran whatever I guess music tour. In just a few moments, he'll get some sponge to post an image of white text on a black background to his branded Instagram account so you know he's super duper serious about it.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really enjoyed reading Between Two Fires - A dark, low-fantasy journey following a flawed, ragtag trio through medieval France amidst the effects of a war in heaven. Often hilarious, often navigating difficult subjects, sometimes heartbreaking. christopherbuehlmanauthor.com/book/between...

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Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman

Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Chartreuse Tandy. Used to swan around with a young Feldgrau Dixons.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/08/2026

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how 70%+ of Amazon, Google and Microsoft's AI revenues come from OpenAI and Anthropic, meaning that outside of two unsustainable AI labs, there isn't anywhere near the demand to justify the capex or the data center buildout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=68X8...

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The AI boom isn’t real: 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic | Ed Zitron

YouTube video by The Tech Report

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Graham Pilling @gp-armyofcats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Strange Stories is fully funded on Backerkit and a couple of stretch goals in! I'm so pleased folks are digging the art & design work! 👻 Lots more art & info here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... Any support much appreciated! #roleplayinggames #tabletoprpg #weirdtales #rpgart #backerkit

Strange Stories the Roleplaying Game Book cover and artwork. Red and Black image showing spooky house and ghost.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Made a reply post earlier, replete with 5 images, each with full alt text descriptions. Hit reply, get the "uploading images" message, then get a blank page. The content wasn't saved (no drafts for replies), and not only did it kill my tab, my whole browser became unresponsive. So that's neat.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A bit of progress on a strip cutter, in oak. Should post more woodwork (or anything else) stuff, but I'm terrible at taking progress photos.

An arrangement of work in progress wood components and hand tools that will eventually be assembled into a balsa/styrene strip cutter.

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oscillik @oscillik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When this baby hits 38mph, you're gonna see some mediocre shit

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Casey @brickwork.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

u wont fuckin get me this time motherfucker, you wont slip me up im WATCHIN u, im ready, im ready RAGHHH COME AT ME

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/07/2026

Transport of a balloon from Lake Neuchâtel to Lake Biel, 1915. Museum Burg Zug www.burgzug.ch

A boat with a large balloon on it. people surround the balloon a ship in the background

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did someone submerge my hand in a jug of mixed Bisto before freezing it, because I've been feeling really Frostgravy lately? #miniatures #terrain #frostgrave #scratchbuilding

A photo of some early work-in-progress, scratch-built miniature buildings for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave, sat on a cutting mat on my kitchen table.

The photograph shows, from left to right:

- an unpainted simple, shorter brick building with a slate roof,
- an unpainted rickety wood shed,
- an unpainted larger two storey brick building, with a wrecked roof caused by the ingress of tree growth,
- an unpainted simple, taller brick building with a slate roof

Materials for the project include polystyrene, styrene, thermal foam board, PVC foam board, balsa, basswood, white birch, thin cork roll, cardboard, ground-foraged tree twigs, thicker steel garden wire, thinner craft wire, sawdust, sand, PVA, grab adhesive, super glue, and tamiya extra thin polycement.

A photo of some early work-in-progress, scratch-built miniature buildings for tabletop skirmish game Frostgrave.

The photograph shows:

- an unpainted simpler, smaller brick building with wooden door lintel and a slate roof
- an unpainted rickety and cobbled-together wooden shed
- a painted miniature wizard figure and treasure chest for scale

Materials for the project include polystyrene, styrene, thermal foam board, PVC foam board, balsa, basswood, white birch, thin cork roll, cardboard, ground-foraged tree twigs, thicker steel garden wire, thinner craft wire, sawdust, sand, PVA, grab adhesive, super glue, and tamiya extra thin polycement.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Did someone submerge my hand in a jug of mixed Bisto before freezing it, because I've been feeling really Frostgravy lately? #miniatures #terrain #frostgrave #scratchbuilding

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What is "A.I", really? My 3 guesses: 3 squirrels fighting on an abacus? A stethoscope glued to a slow-cooked ham? "Magnets"?

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Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

AI hasn't even made AI profitable, Tim.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Heard something similar the other day (whilst awake, so minus some cool-points): "All mash, no bangers". You say this to someone and they immediately start to disintegrate at the molecular level.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Good level of transparency here. For me, this sounds like a reasonable set of stances and safeguards for an open source project. Above all, yeah, I dig the honesty, lets each dev make their own call.

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Austin Wood @woodwould.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

gamesradar.com

Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

With credits ranging from Dispatch and Marvel Rivals to Uncharted and Dragon Age, over 30 devs share their thoughts on gen AI

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2026

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

buff.ly

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This video is rather depressing. With a legacy once built upon an incredible history of pioneering and pushing videogame artwork forwards, Epic have arrived at this frustrating and disappointingly myopic sloperation no one will be able to follow when token cost is increased to match compute costs.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Anything can be commodified and sold, without you knowing what for.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Crazy Taxi. Crazy like psychosis.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Like professors, I'm suggesting we should integrate our health disorders into our names when we introduce ourselves to new people. Hi! Nice to meet you. I'm Glynn, CPAP, ADHD, and I've got a Type 1 in Diabetes 🧐

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Not only does it immediately kill my interest in something but. 30 million gallons of drinking water consumed. Art theft. Wage theft. Noise pollution. Skyrocketing prices. Lack of consent for images. Manipulative deep fakes. Even if it was ethical the lack of regulation at its birth has poisoned it.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

These anti-human ghouls should, at the absolute least, be held to the same rules as the rest of us, without exception or delay.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/06/2026

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

r/GithubCopilot • 11m ago
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Just one prompt and I got 50% of my whole month credits using Claude Sonnet 4.6.
General
This is hilarious. For context I used the Copilot Orchestrator that has Condutor, Planning, Implementator and Code review agents. But with the new "usage based pricing", seems like this is not an ideal setup anymore?
Anyone has the same experience here? I am on Copilot Prot. This is so expensive.

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Love the new Copilot token system
General
Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.

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First day of the new pricing model, I tried one prompt to just refine one of my existing change proposal, basically a conductor with few sub agents to update the existing change spec, architecture, test plan, prototype, tech spec and implementation plan.
About 20-30 mins task, ends up burning 16% of my monthly credits in one shot.
Bye.
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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I do love that every time Tommy Robinson is mentioned in the news, they put his real name with it, sounding like some Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen type business.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Last night I noticed Microslop's VSCode is now marketing itself directly as "The open source AI code editor", so today I'm removing it from my machine and am installing VSCodium (vscodium.com)

A screenshot of Microsoft Visual Code's homepage with "The open source AI code editor" displayed as it's main heading text.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Comforting news for all the Roxannes out there.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Beautifully put. The commoditisation of the human spirit.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For your consideration, UK folks. A petition to get Parliament to lay bare and scrutinize Palantir's role in our public services.

c.org

Sign the Petition

Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I was born in '81. If I'd only gotten my act together quicker...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Wes Streeting supports the Cass Report and Palantir's UK govt contracts. Either he lacks the critical thinking skills to evaluate the evidence/arguments against them, or he ignores these things for ideological or other reasons. Either one makes him unfit to be PM in my view. (Not going to debate it)

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Slightly increase a band: Boards of North America, Teletex Acid Crew, Pentagonpusher, Evo, The Courier Service

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Ah yes, the Daniel Plainview method of straight up drinking your milkshake.

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Jordan @gm-jordan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Genuinely, stop using Substack. And readers? Stop reading people’s Substacks and tell them why you’ve stopped

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CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Some choice excerpts from @wil.to's "Google Prompt API" response css-tricks.com/googles-prom... > You now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it [...] Google has said not to worry about it. 😳

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Google’s Prompt API | CSS-Tricks

Mat Marquis on Google pulling the webs standards equivalent of U2 album marketing:

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Unity "AI", now, is it? "AI" is the opposite of the anti-indie ethos, so indie devs likely won't use it. Unity's trying to sell it as a prototyping tool, so pro-"AI" beginners who now feel the door's been opened won't know what the hell's going on after prototyping, when real dev begins. Cool.

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Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Support your local independent bookstore, or use Bookshop.org.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flare

The Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The recent story of an LLM developing a weighted bias towards reciting material involving goblins, followed by this Reddit thread, is thoroughly enjoyable. More of this sort of thing, please. www.reddit.com/r/technology...

reddit.com

ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

For Unity dev, I trialled JetBrains Rider a few days ago, to see if it gave me much more benefit over my VSCode setup. It came with a code LLM automatically enabled, which mainly seemed to suggest inserting code I'd just deleted? I'm back on VSCode with regular old intellisense.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Kitbashed me some Primarised Centurions last year that...*checks shelf*....yep...still aren't painted. But here they are, with slightly better proportions, and a bunch of other modifications. #40k #warhammer40k #miniatures

Three modified Warhammer 40k Centurions posed with two distinctly lesser models.

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glynnsmith @glynnsmith.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Kitbashed Dreadnought. Made him modular, so he can have the original or kitbashed legs, as well as a few different weapon/arm setups.

A heavily kitbashed, modular Warhammer 40k Astartes Dreadnought, with custom legs, a modified stubber-type right arm, and a power-spear left arm.

A heavily kitbashed, modular Warhammer 40k Astartes Dreadnought, with custom legs, a modified stubber-type right arm, and a power-spear left arm, photo taken before final detailing/greeble application.

A heavily kitbashed, modular Warhammer 40k Astartes Dreadnought, with all the modular parts laid out separately.

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