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@jane1321.bsky.social
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Here to learn more about history, politics, etc. I'm not a robot, even though I don't comment often. I realize that "not a robot" is something a robot would say.

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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 19h
Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.
FAKE NEWS!
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
they also announced this week they are weakening food safety regulations and enforcement
news.bloomberglaw.com
FDA Signals Leniency for Small Retailers Under Food-Tracing Rule
The nation’s leading food regulator plans to relieve pressure on small food retailers and restaurants subject to regulations designed to speed up investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This time next year toxic chemicals in our food will be mandatory
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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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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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m not saying nobody believes those things. I’m saying there’s no way that I personally know of to tell the difference between sincerity, ordinary attention-seeking, and profit-driven attention-seeking.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you see things on X that seem impossible for a human being to believe (like a desire to turn over parenting to AI), keep in mind that you can make money with raw attention over there.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
100% a legacy defining black eye for Polis that he commuted an unrepentant and malicious person like Peters who is still fixated on trying to disrupt elections, tho. Should earn him an open ended blacklisting from Democratic politics going forward.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026
True, this is — but it’s remarkable how long most of them held the pose without breaking character, right?
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
God, it must have been internal agony for all these racists to pretend for years that their opposition to affirmative action was on the grounds that it was hurting smart Asian students while hating them every second of the way.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 06/10/2026
Amazing to watch figures on the right fess up, with affirmative action in college admissions and the Voting Rights Act cleared aside, that meritocracy never meant squat to them.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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óÓÒò ¥€€₦ óÓÒò @spottedmenace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The "model minority" is a cudgel used to sow division and erode unity and solidarity. Even when you clear those hurdles and "not like the negroes" your way into proximity, they'll move the goalposts to still keep you out. Hope everyone learns that lesson quick.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is what happens when one side polarizes against "virtue" as a concept
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I say again it’s sort of amazing the libs are getting both Great Books and the Protestant Work Ethic in the national divorce
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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay thanks to Helen is #BirdSupermodel. Any bird captured looking like it's posing for a magazine cover. Here is a Winter Wren working the ramp show on our deck. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature #Ontario #Canada @helenbennett.bsky.social
Winter Wren working the ramp show
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I keep thinking back tot his study when I'm reminded of this incident www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
MULTIPLE GROUP THREAT AND MALLEABLE WHITE ATTITUDES TOWARDS ACADEMIC MERIT1 | Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race | Cambridge Core
MULTIPLE GROUP THREAT AND MALLEABLE WHITE ATTITUDES TOWARDS ACADEMIC MERIT1 - Volume 10 Issue 1
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway remember that tim carney is one of the “reasonable” conservatives
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Everything must be 100% meritocratic! Best man for the job!" (a few brown people succeed) "Whoa whoa whoa, it's not all about achievements. What about my friends?"
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quaithe of the shadow asshai @clarkconquers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did that….just say….”we’re too meritocratic”???????? They want us to turn into the Joker??????????
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Jacqueline @justjacque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flower of the day. #Flowers #BloomScrolling #DailyFlower
Cream and burgundy daylily flower ‘Inkheart’
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FlipsToStock @flipstostock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m not sure I’m understanding. Is his point “We should only be meritocratic up to a certain point, when whites stop winning”?
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 06/10/2026
Not content merely to elevate mediocre whites, these people seek now to make a virtue of mediocrity itself
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I long for just straight up racism instead of this "actually white people possess uh ancient ways of knowing and studying hurts us"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Everyone wants someone else to plan dinner parties & invite them.
derekthompson.org
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...
Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May. Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it blows my mind that these bizarre AI people think “the commons” is just sitting around for them to strip-mine for free
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on wikimedia projects. by selena deckelmann 5 october 2026
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Matt @justmattmichael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When Kamala Harris wanted to do this stuff, Theo Von voted For Donald Trump.
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Changa_Husky @changa.gay · 04/10/2026
Tech Bros and companies have a real consent problem.
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Tarwin Stroh-Spijer @tarwin.art · 02/10/2026
I've been watching this with e-commerce sites we work with. Sudden 10x traffic that takes the sites down. Needs to be treated as a DDOS attack by law.
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Further proof betting markets are evil and must be destroyed: I had to agree that I would not make a bet on the election as an election worker yesterday. Kalshi and Polymarket are bad.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.
"but you've automated your hobby"
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no, fantasy football is not my hobby. it's more of a social obligation.
my actual hobbies are gainful and awesome and mostly involve being outside. not fixating on team news and sportsball RNG. i have more time to do them because I use Al for all the boring stuff in my life.
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hogandavis.bsky.social @hogandavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love to pressure my friends into pretending to do my hobby so I can interact with the robot they tasked to placate me. This is a good society and I am very happy with the world.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol, if you know my history as a teen Watergate geek, you know I never miss a chance to write about Nixon! But team Trump's obsession with rewriting the 1970s past is really about controlling the future, and killing off the concept of accountability My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
inquirer.com
Trump’s fixation on Nixon is also a warning | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what Texas Senate ads during an Eagles game really mean.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More vaccine insanity: Texas pediatricians are facing investigations by State Atty General Ken Paxton for vaccinating children. Paxton, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, has alleged that a sprawling profit-driven vaccine conspiracy is underway. Pediatricians say the accusations are pure intimidation👇
nytimes.com
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The other reason I don't really know what to do with these pieces is that they are paired with puff piece profiles of the fascists, platforming of the fascists, & appalling pieces in the business section about whether violating the NATO treaty & seizing territory for Lebensraum is a good investment:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anyway, I'll start taking this coverage, pitched as "accountability" pieces, when the NYT stops doing the "Reverse Emails" (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & starts covering the crimes & lawless authoritarianism the way it covered Hillary Clinton's email server & Joe Biden's age in 2016 & 2020.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forum boards are the best form of internet, full stop, and the internet began to suck more and more as we strayed from that light
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dudes, have you dropped a friendship because a guy was the a creep or inappropriate to women? Did you pay a price?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
sltrib.com
ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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CNN @cnn.com · 05/10/2026
Six in 10 tech workers who participated in a new survey say they try to avoid using AI, according to Stack Overflow, a popular question-and-answer site for programmers.
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Their jobs were among the first to be changed by AI. Now some are trying to avoid it | CNN Business
Laura Housh began using AI in her work as a software engineer in 2024, intrigued by the promise of how it could help with coding and other tasks. Now, roughly two years later, she has a love-hate rela...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And most of the propaganda comes for a small group of people (percentage wise)
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