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recreating my account on a European server. Current soulless bureaucrat (city government style), former/future(?) academic, situationist, free floating intellectual, etc.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/10/2026
As atproto spaces gets closer to a full rollout, it's useful to think how it will impact the larger network, and Bryan's analysis (not surprisingly) is a fantastic read in thinking through the various issues.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Historic view of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The red dot is glowing magma at the Tvashtar eruption site; the blue plume is fine dust particles lofted hundreds of km high and catching sunlight. A rare, detailed look at Io’s extreme activity from New Horizons’ Jupiter flyby. 🔭🧪⚛️ #planetsci
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the most bizarre and enraging story: a crazy old pensioner who has an army of men feeding the wildlife and can afford to pay any fine the city throws at him.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
South Africa's batters are at the crease on day three in the opening Test at Kingsmead as they try to track down Australia first-innings 390. Follow live.
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Live: Aussie attack hunting wickets on day three against South Africa
South Africa's batters are at the crease on day three in the opening Test at Kingsmead as they try to track down Australia first-innings 390. Follow live.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(waggling my eyebrows sexily at Washington State and California)
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Valéry GiSCARY d'Estaing 🎃 @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Effective altruism: utilitarianism that makes Jeremy Bentham look like a really normal person.
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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I knew about her from Facebook or Instagram from a while back. She's amazing, I love her. We need more radical street librarians.
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TK @40goingon28.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Living in San Francisco in 2026 means you cannot begin to fathom what product or service is being advertised
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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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Jonas Holm Jæger @jonasholmjaeger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My man looks like someone slapped googly eyes on a 7/11 hot dog
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On 11 Nov. 2020, APOD published this spectacular image. It is a spiral mosaic of 48 full moons, collected over 10 years from northern to southern Italy. No trick: it is the Moon, filtered by Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Marcella Giulia Pace apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20111... 🔭⚛️🧪 #astrophotography
Forty-eight full-Moon photos. Black background. They form a spiral, and the rings get tighter toward the middle. Some appear gray, some brownish gray. Others appear yellow, orange or deep red. A few pale blues. One vivid purple Moon sits near the center.
Several disks low in the arrangement look slightly flattened rather than round. The sequence ends with a faint red Moon from the total lunar eclipse of 27 July 2018. 
Small credit text at the bottom reads Marcella Giulia Pace.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
absent shared norms, facts, standards of evidence or methods of reasoning, “public debate” is just broadcasting talking points performing “public debate” in that context means tacitly agreeing that whatever’s being debated, however fundamental, is just a matter of opinion even if you win, you lose
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
„Based on the information provided by NFP, WHO has not identified evidence of ongoing transmission associated with this event. A key uncertainty remains the absence of a confirmed diagnosis in the deceased laboratory worker. WHO will continue to monitor the situation…“
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New @who.int update on the suspected plague case in Russia: „The NFP [National Focal Point] informed WHO that the case and all contacts had been tested for a range of microorganisms, including high-threat pathogens. Test results were negative for the tested high-threat pathogens.“
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit. The free screenings start March 2027; the move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040. buff.ly/uwOHxPX #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Free cervical screening for women aged 25 to 69 - Inside Government NZ
The Government has announced cervical screening will be free for all eligible women aged 25 to 69, from 1 March 2027. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers. Almost every case is…
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/10/2026
👻 Spooky season continues at the Internet Archive! Today’s tricky treat: HÄXAN, the 1922 silent film about witchcraft, superstition and the persecution of those accused of practicing it. More Spooky Stuff here ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... 🧵
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne Carson
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‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne Carson
The French author discovered Carson on a bus while stranded in a snowstorm and has been enthralled by her fearless imagination ever since
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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY INFORMATION
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.
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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
'France’s republic was born of insurrection and has never forgotten it. French pupils learn that protest, uprising and rioting are the origin story of their freedoms, so these methods are championed in promoting change. We grew up in school with the idea that if you don’t like something, you […]
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
3 months ago Google search started to prioritize AI summaries over links, and the impact on journalism could not be more devastating. Truthout's overall readership from Google is down 54% against last year. We lost a huge chunk of our audience overnight that we painstakingly built over decades.
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
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gobsmacked @gobsmacked.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
but because, given the huge amounts of computer power it could call on, it was more persistent.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Persistence, extreme speed (compared to humans) and massive computing power put at the service of the new oligarchs whose goals - dreams - are increasingly receding ...
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Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 09/10/2026
“Looking visibly amused, Pillay repeatedly asks if that’s even true, as she says someone called her up and she thought it was a joke. “(She gets reassured that it’s on the BBC, so it must be true.) “‘But being a lawyer and a judge I still want to verify,’ she laughs.”
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Navi Pillay named winner of 2026 Nobel peace prize for efforts to promote international law - live
The Nobel committee chair says the winner was ‘instrumental in ensuring war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted’
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Phoebe Litchfield powers Australia to crushing ODI victory over Bangladesh
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Phoebe Litchfield powers Australia to crushing ODI victory over Bangladesh
Opener smashes 77 off 75 balls to chase down meagre 166, as Annabel Sutherland takes 4-30 and hits 26 not out
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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"While we were physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free." Amandla!
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Gloves on!” Carson on boxing, handwriting, being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and ‘the black door’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Anne Carson · Gloves on!
So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re...
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I really don't understand this project. This is Sydney, where most of the time it's either too sunny to stand in direct sunlight or raining. What on earth is the point of an empty expanse of concrete?
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nor have I been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed.
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sabbatical goals
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/10/2026
I hate how good this is.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
North American friends: you can watch this online on your lunch break or with mid-morning coffee.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in retrospect, letting people who hate society and social life run society and dictate the shape of social life was a stupid thing to do
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
wrote about this stuff last year, think it stands up
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‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity
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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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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 08/10/2026
Nearly 6,000 monitored vertebrate species across more than 35,000 populations declined by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature said in its latest Living Planet Report.
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Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says
The 2026 Living Planet Report estimates that overall populations fell by an average of around 2.5% per year over the 52-year period.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
*"Adversarial poetry malware." Yeah: it's infected poetry. Evil poetry that powns machines and mines crypto. I'm pretty jaded when it comes to malware hijinks, but that's plenty weird www.theregister.com/security/202...
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Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers
Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Patrons payed plenty for their box seats for this beautiful performance of the Annunciation, painted in the 1440s by Filippo Lippi. Today is his day.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The concept of cables all across the ocean floor transporting my friendly map posts around the world remains totally wild to me. Here is an animated map that shows the increase of this infrastructure. Source: mapped.earth HT @mappedearth
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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