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Kristen Koopman

@kkoopman.bsky.social
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Ph.D. from VT STS. Studying and writing speculative fiction. Definitely not two smaller Kristen Koopmans in a trenchcoat.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Companies” do not make decisions. Humans who hold disproportionate power within them do. Name the humans and hold them accountable. There are countless examples of failure on this, including with the bank crisis, Boeing, and tech industry harms.
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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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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Leverage: Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) - I'm Listening
Alt: Gif of Aldis Hodge as Hardison in Leverage leaning forward, grinning, and saying "I'm listening..."
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
"Ohhhh nooo! Our 'AI' 'Agent' 'went rogue' and deleted all the student loan records and paid off every remaining tuition acount by draining football coaches' salaries! Ohhhh noooooooo!"
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
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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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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026
hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@cyborgapologist.bsky.social presenting at @4sweb.bsky.social in the Hot Girl Eugenics panel, which is literally standing room only!!!
Picture of Josh Earle presenting to a PACKED ROOM
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Georg Nagel said he thought it was too soon; that optogenetics had only really helped one patient. Well, a new study out today bumps that number up to 7! www.sciencenews.org/article/gene...
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Gene therapy and special goggles give some blind people limited sight
Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay signals to the brain.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've had vaguely uncomfortable feelings about LLMs/AI and peer review, but Julianne makes it more clear here. It's pretty simple: who will be able do it?
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Men's college applications are significantly weaker than women's. So colleges do affirmative action for men. Thumb on the scale = class of 58% men? Wtf? National statistics—fall 2023, 42% of U.S. undergraduates were male. Harvard’s class of 2025 was 48% male, at Yale and Princeton, men were 49%.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/10/2026
"I realize none of you had planned to be locked in a cell for 36 hours, but still, that was only 45 minutes longer than Maria’s Disney Princess Ariel Infinity Pool and Live Sea Creatures Party in February." buff.ly/ZiIY6v2
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In Retrospect, the Theme for Chad’s 4th Birthday Party Should Not Have Been “Stanford Prison Experiment”
“If we’re being totally honest, this is all Rose’s dad’s fault; he started this birthday party arms race by recreating a disastrous Mt. Everest expedition in...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The new studio is definitely unsinkable
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
...a real possibility that people are realizing TODAY that they have to change their flights, hotels, etc. if they wanted to present in person. I know there are a lot of moving parts and I'm not upset that I got moved, but I feel like I very narrowly dodged a bullet here and I know others didn't.
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was really disconcerting to realize a week out that I had been moved to a different day without being told. I'm not tenure track and have to plan ahead to miss classes - and I had already booked my stay assuming I would be presenting on Saturday. I lucked out and can still present, but there's...
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a heads up, it looks like some folks didn't get notified about schedule changes - no emails, no draft programs, only if you logged into your membership portal and went to the right page could you see that you were moved. Is there a way to make sure that doesn't happen again?
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
and somehow, the vice president calls professors the enemy. all that power over us, and y’all still need to hire conservatives via some fucked up inversion of affirmative action. all that power, and you’re still afraid of grown people who carry flash cards. sounds real beta, ngl.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if conservatives have been expunged or cancelled in higher ed spaces, how come BOVs and policymakers are censoring protected academic speech, funding grants via ideological litmus tests, shutting down entire fields of study, eroding expertise, punishing dissent, *arresting and violencing students*?
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
so tired of this take. ask some conservatives if they want to make adjunct salaries and see how eager they are. gosh, i wonder why lots of left-leaning folks choose professions like teaching, counseling, and care work? must be indoctrination! no, we just give a shit about others and our world.
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Nathan Ballingrud:
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the world is a rough place these days, but there are tiny glimmers of light everywhere if you know where to look for example, my sister just texted that their youngest decided to take up the trumpet and was honking away all evening in the garage, driving them nuts, and that did bring me real joy
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Taurus: You remember that scene from Alien where the guy thinks he is not feeling well, but then a creature bursts out of his chest and kills everyone? That's the best way I can describe what is happening inside of you right now, only emotionally.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Question for folks with a better grasp of the Cuban diaspora as a group - are the impacts of this going to be equally felt across the different migration groups? I can see, for example, the Marielitos having a different reaction than folks who left as kids at the start of the Revolution.
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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is pretty cool, Audobon picked one of my photos for their top 100 as part of their 2026 photography awards! It’s an incredible honor to be showcased alongside these phenomenal photos
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The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards: The Top 100
These jaw-dropping images and behind-the-scenes stories showcase the photographers’ artistry and the beauty of birdlife from Canada to Chile.
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 23/09/2026
@mikeblack114.bsky.social pointed me towards Downer’s Rational Accidents, which explores this in detail (going beyond Normal Accidents) and it’s definitely a “once you see it you can’t unsee it” sort of thing. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254699...
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Rational Accidents
Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence infrastructures—these are all complex and formidable technologies with the potential to fail cata...
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have *six days* left until the Academy of Natural Sciences, North America's oldest Natural History museum, is scheduled to close it's doors. Here are *six reasons* why we cannot - and will not- let that happen.
a slide that says 6 days until the doors close -- 6 reasons we can keep them open, save-the-academy.org @savetheacademy
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: brain is actually two brains in a trenchcoat
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Said a Boeing 737, "omg sorry, that text was so random, are you angry at me 👉👈"
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Kristen Koopman @kkoopman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My favorite bit of the Constitution is where it says that if the Executive Branch doesn't get what it wants, the remedy is to take its toys and go home.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/09/2026
"The ER can be a busy place, so out of respect for your time and our HMO cost-saving measures, you have been referred to take this class first. After two weeks of caring for your severe medical trauma at home, you may then visit the ER, provided you are still alive." buff.ly/a0JCRD9
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You Don’t Qualify for an ER Visit Until After You Attend This Online Group Class About How to Care for Your Giant Gaping Wound at Home
“The ER can be a busy place, so out of respect for your time and our HMO cost-saving measures, you have been referred to take this class first. After two wee...
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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ok hivemind (I'm still using social media like it's 2015). I'm writing something introductory about the epistemology of technology and the internet. What are some good things (topics, papers) which I should be including?
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson
The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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