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Jess the Gray

@jessthegray.bsky.social
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EM, ex-Square, ex-Sift, ex-Tune, Xoogler via Caltech Wife of @pyrojo.bsky.social Yet another Seattle urbanist

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2h
Notice the headline and the sub leave out the ICE agent physically attacked the 72yo man and his daughter "Once Gonzalez was woken up, police say he appeared drunk and assaulted the 72-year-old. Police say the daughter tried to intervene to protect her father, and Gonzalez physically attacked her"
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h
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 the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 6h
I love megaproject videos in spite of them generally being fluff pieces for terrible regimes, and the Line always had the energy of "you better get out before the music stops because there's no way bro" without saying it out loud.
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 6h
I think of those 3 as more of Southern California things to be honest.
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 7h
☐ attempt to build a cult ☐ attempt to get laid ☐ attempt to start a shooting war
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 9h
they don't have to for it to be intimidation
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 9h
Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias
Screenshot of a FB post by meteorologist Greg Dee showing Waffle House locations closed in the panhandle
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
seeing hacker news posts about margaret hamilton (rip), and forgive me, but i this is how it feels
wow cool robot meme, edited to show margaret hamilton standing next to a tower of code she hand audited, with an onlooker going "wow!! so much code!!!", and the point flying across the onlooker's head reads: engineering is about preventing problems through understanding the consequences of your decisions, both wanted and unwanted
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 11h
Ok now I want to read this
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You probably don't want to look up leading causes of pregnancy death in rich countries.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How they got there: www.economist.com/internationa...
economist.com
How effective altruism conquered the world
And how the 21st century’s most important social movement might yet end it
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did not see Slutcon breaking containment via The Economist, but here we are.
Economist banner
Some rationalists fear their association with AI safety may end up harming the cause. “I think it really does damage the credibility of a movement with 60-year-old voters in Ohio when it’s hosting Slutcon and asking questions about sex with dead cows on its application forms,” Scott Alexander, an influential blogger, has written on X. Slutcon is a conference set up by Aella, a rationalist, sex researcher and prostitute, where participants pay up to $18,000 to attend sessions on topics including “flirting for the submissive man” and “vaginal gymnastics”.
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Sarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the past sucked, it's just that you were a child
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Probably run labs and/or gathered and shared a critical dataset for this research space. Co-author norms can vary a lot depending on domain.
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/10/2026
Taking people's chairs away doubles their heart disease risk.🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes, sitting too much causes health problems. But the solution isn't "Then always stand!🤡" Because human bodies are meant to move. Stand. Sit. Change positions. Move around.
utoronto.ca
Standing too much at work can double your risk of heart disease: U of T expert
There's been a lot of interest in the harmful effects of prolonged sitting at work, from academics and the public alike. The attention being paid to sitting – or rather, not sitting – while on the job...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least that cracked screen phone is well charged.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also, and I cannot stress this enough, you can do both. The sheer ability of people to hear "Voting matters" & interpret that as "I just personally ordered you to never volunteer or donate to a cause ever again. And the only way to break the spell is complain" It's a monument to human ingenuity.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/09/2026
Trivia! The top high school student in the USA applies to U of Texas and Stanford, and gets into both. He commits to go to UT, because they promise him a free entry-level laptop. But a Stanford prof says, "If you come here, I'll give you a $4000 high end laptop!" The kid says OK. Is this illegal?
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think a lot of people do need to recalibrate their reality around the fact that people born in 2008 will be voting in this election.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
given that "a military coup" is at 59% here I think that number seems a little low honestly
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/09/2026
Don't fuck your staff, folks
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: It’s Fat Bear Week! I do love a fat bear 🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-week
explore.org
Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PNW has entered chat.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Isn't pregnancy one of those cases, what with the Rubella?
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big tech is plenty dysfunctional, but it's a definitely skews a different texture than start up.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
like, the actual physical White House is not the most important thing the federal government does by a long shot but it really is one of the most visible, it belonged to all of us, and he fucking wrecked it
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FALSE BERLIN and BIZARRE LITTLE MEN are categories, they did the thing
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith
It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.
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Jess the Gray @jessthegray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Was on LinkedIn and saw hockey stick diagram where the y-axis was number of employees. Leaders were high giving and talking about how they reached that target even faster. 😬🫣
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science
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Amtrak Cascades @amtrakcascades.wsdot.wa.gov · 17/09/2026
NEW AMTRAK CASCADES TRAINS START SEPTEMBER 30. You can experience the new Amtrak Cascades trains beginning September 30. Four daily trains will be operating as new trainsets. Trains 503, 508, [SEA-EUG] 516 and 519 [SEA-VAC]. See the schedule at AmtrakCascades.com. Read more at: media.amtrak.com/
A new Amtrak Cascades train cruises up the tracks in style south of Tukwila with Mt. Rainier rising majestically in the background under a light blue sky with trees fringing the photo. The new train sports evergreen, mocha and cream colors with gold nugget accents. There are two headlights on below the windshield of the train.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 17/09/2026
It's hilarious that "the initial work and underlying philosophy of this massive defense-linked American industry came from a small group of sorta racist californians who were super into esoteric sex cultism" is not enough to pin down what industry you're talking about
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 17/09/2026
this why I laugh any time people ask me "won't slop be insecure" my sibling in christ, where do you think they learned to code insecurely from
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
funny to think that Seattle basically never loses anymore, everyones like they do it with a bunch of very good but not all time players and the one guy on that team who might be the greatest to ever play his position is the punter
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