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Adam Rogers

@jetjocko.bsky.social
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Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors. Signal: @jetjocko.15 adam-rogers.net

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1h
Anthropic could've said that they adopted this policy because they feel it is not helpful to individuals to allow them to play out abusive behaviour even when interacting with a machine. That would've been fine. But with this wording they want to sustain a fantasy. www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us...
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2026 Usage Policy update
We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 1h
No, see, what happens is, the "single stair" *reforms* on the outside of the building to make a whole other stair! See? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Exclusive: This change to obscure S.F. building rules could unlock ‘missing middle’ housing
Housing proponents hope single-stair reform could help spur the sort of modest infill projects that Mayor Daniel Lurie has backed but some said his plan didn’t go far enough.
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 2h
Doing "single-stair reform" that requires a second stairway on the outside of the building might be the most San Francisco thing I've ever seen
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Brian Galle @bdgesq.bsky.social · 6h
Luckily there is similar evidence from places like Spain & Switzerland with variation at the local level (and where it is super-easy to get from one taxing j. to another on a nice train)! Which we reviewed pretty comprehensively here: www.californialawreview.org/print/state-...
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Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level — California Law Review
It’s widely understood today that inequality is a major social problem that in turn contributes to other crises. By most accounts, tax systems are supposed to be our engines of equality. Yet in today’...
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3h
300,000 tons of diesel is something like 2.25 million barrels, which is considerably less than what the U.S. goes through in a single day (~4.0 million barrels). I assume he chose the bizarre unit of "tons" rather than the more familiar barrels to mask this fact.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 3h
no but see the
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 3h
I just have trouble metabolizing the idea that part of the labor class that capital hates are the basic researchers who make capital possible. Doesn't mean that's not the case, though.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 4h
Is it just for investors? So they can see the tech can do these things and will hold firm when the IPO comes?
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 4h
"If OpenAI wanted to destroy the mathematical community, this would be a great way to go about it." proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/1...
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100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 4h
I gotta admit I don't understand the business wisdom of taking a move-fast-break-things-disrupt strategic approach to showing a model's ability to do real science. The scientists won't want to use it. 50% unconfirmed? Who does this please? retractionwatch.com/2026/10/08/o...
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OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems
Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors.  On Oct. 6, Open…
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
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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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 4h
It seems likely that every time someone turns Elon Musk off, when they reactivate him, it's actually a totally different, all-new instance. Same training data and core memory but doesn't "remember," in any sense, prior interactions.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 5h
Every contingency demands that we read it intensely, daytrading and shitcoining; kalshing and realrealing through value equations that elude us. Who the fuck is checking the price of their used car often enough to decide to sell? Why does Carvana think this is a mode of being?
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 5h
Bay Area cities' tax base compared to the average for the area, per these folks' fascinating interactive. Can kinda tell why services in Oakland might be more strapped than in Marin.
a map of the CA Bay ARea with cities color-coded showing how much the tax base is compared to the average. San Francisco and Marin are higher; the East Bay is lower, especially Oakland, with the surrounded city of Piedmont an island of wealth.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 6h
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Jennifer @jenwith1n.bsky.social · 23h
Vancouver, WA did the biggest upzone / deregulation possibly in the entire nation and not enough people are talking about it. And this all came from City staff - they didn’t have community advocates demanding this for years!
A chart showing the zoning districts with minimum density and maximum height that have been in effect since July 1, 2025. In the “low scale” zone, the lowest density other than manufactured home parks, the minimum density is 8 du/ac and the max height is three floors (45 feet). Vancouver, WA’s new zoning map, which has just 10 zones.The four comprehensive plan designations and ten zones in Vancouver. The four comp plan designations are residential neighborhoods, urban mixed use, employment and industry, and green space.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This sort of stuff makes me want to scream. The cost bloat is in *capital projects* not in operations! Capital projects are bloated because of a complex web of balkanized permitting processes, the byzantine and inconsistent nature of federal grant funding, and outsourcing talent to consultants.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23h
damn
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23h
And the threat surface is publications not having staff anymore and so relying on freelance, which means they all take walk-ins.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s a dynamic and changing situation. With a lot of moving parts.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bragging about being in movies about it is a flak flack’s flax flix flex.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Their linen is made from flak flack’s flax
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Publicist for a weapons company that makes the stuff is a flak flack
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
a lot of hot takes on this casual substack analysis with no CIs, summary statistics, or peer review. given the low prevalences of these subgroups, this could certainly be in large part statistical noise. it does in fact need more formal study before we know
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sums up the reactionary mind to farm outrage with the construction cost, while not actually giving a shit about the causes of the construction cost crisis.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rhetorical flak! Not actual flak.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this person should catch some flak for this
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Damn, I wish I had a relaxed tip-to-tip dimension.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I suspect that this is not so much a grift as a distributed denial of service attack against journalism, and these are all probes. It's going to get worse, and spread beyond science publications.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey, that's deranged.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...OH! NO! NO! www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...
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Fake Caroline.
Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Socialism is like rain on your wedding day
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And then it hit me: They're never gonna call a train to take us to the B Ark. They can't. Because we're already here. This is the B Ark.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alt: actually now it’s “super insemination”
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alt: get a load of this
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This guy is fucking amazing
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alt: oh, come on. www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-se...
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Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Farm
Fire at Yarram Herd Services in Victoria, Australia described as a "major blow" for farmers.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Really hard to think of a term more antisemitic and genocidal than Yarvin’s.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Massive Semen Explosion’s second album was amazing.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow, that does seem like a considerable blow. www.newsweek.com/fire-bull-se...
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Massive Semen Explosion after Blaze Hits Bull Artificial Insemination Farm
Fire at Yarram Herd Services in Victoria, Australia described as a "major blow" for farmers.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conflicted. Picking pockets is skilled labor and a noble old crime with its own language, so I kinda think if you’re good at it you should get a pass. But if you get caught, you’re not that good at it. But maybe the fix isn’t in? That’d shock me. Anyway. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Three Bay Area men convicted in S.F. Chinatown pickpocketing case
Three men from Vallejo were convicted of felony and misdemeanor theft charges after San Francisco prosecutors accused them of stealing thousands of dollars from people in Chinatown.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reminder that the Vice President of the United States has described Yarvin as an intellectual influence.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Other apple varieties I love: Opal, Holstein, Suncrisp, Black Oxford, Arkansas Black, Esopus Spitzenberg, Ashmead’s Kernel, Jonathan, RubyMac, different russets, Blue Pearmain
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AAAAAAPPLES. (My favorite variety, er, varies, obviously. Grocery store apple would be a Cosmic Crisp. Heirloom, I’d say Cox’s Orange Pippin. Overall though, GoldRush is the goat.)
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Show me the plan...and I can help you" versus "input your plan for more information." It's pernicious.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 07/10/2026
ayfkm clicking on an email address in Zoom chat opens up "Zoom Mail" which is definitely the thing anyone in the world wants to happen when they click on an email address
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It shouldn't use first person pronouns. Having it say "you can keep talking with me about" instead of "keep talking about" is an explicit UX choice to make it seem human and empathetic.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026
Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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