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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 1h

Same deal with Walter Benjamin. Hounding people for financial support for years. GoFundMe wasn't around.

Karl Marx was broke and frequently begged Friedrich Engels for money.

krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 6h

It took this long for Richard Branson to notice the fascism? The mistake will be to individualize the problem & characterize the situation as if Krasnov acts alone.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 20h

How awful is this development? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Stats, only about a third of businesses survive an entire decade.

Scientists trusted less than business leaders when discussing social issues, study finds (source: Manchester UK news)

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Fox News Poll chart with title: "HOW CONCERNED ARE VOTERS ABOUT KEY ISSUES." Corruption in government leads with 88% extremely/very concerned.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Banks (in this case, Bank of America) aren't expected to use empirical evidence in their financial dealings. It's sometimes "Wheeeeee!" Except when you owe an overdraft charge. Then, the systems seem to work perfectly. Human attention is needed only when criminals are laundering money.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One of my colleagues used to say that the administrators could always easily co-opt faculty activists by inviting them to the country club for lunch. Many academics are susceptible to flattery of the thinnest and most suspicious kind. Sadly, I've witnessed the truth of my colleague's claim.

Nature headline: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Wasn't Katie Zacharia's first press conference the mother of all bombs? Doubtless any Iranians who witnessed it were harmed.

CNN headline: US considering using 'mother of all bombs' against Iran

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Someone providing some details on how to return collective services to the public sector. Couple that with a persuasion blitz on how dependent almost everyone, including "entrepreneurs," is on roads, electrical grids, sewage, garbage collection -- all things no single person provides.

In Congress, a new select committee on de-privatization could take stock of all of the various cases of privatization and their direct and indirect costs. The Biden administration began insourcing reforms by ordering the end of contracts for private federal prisons.

This agenda may sound obscure and secondary compared to the more urgent needs to restore government. But in Britain, the new Labour prime minister, Andy Burnham, has made reversing decades of privatization the centerpiece of his program. That includes bringing back rail and bus service to public ownership, expanding public energy, as well as ending privatized water and sewer services, and restoring underfunded public entities such as the National Health Service.
https://prospect.org/2026/10/13/time-to-de-privatize-federal-government/

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This always works with people intent on murdering. The judge did say "please," after all. Further, one cannot help but be impressed by the recurrence of "ever."

"Please do not touch any poison at all. Ever. Ever." https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/poisoned-berkeley-co-worker-conviction-22474230.php

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/10/2026

In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. (Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)

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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Never forget that 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒's writers always know better than anyone & know more. They won't do kink shaming but they are the Académie française of epistemology shaming.

I Traced Jane Doe's Path the Night of Her Assault. I Learned Something All the Reports Are Leaving Out.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Again, no banker goes to jail. Fines. They're allowed to pay their way out of criminality.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Remember these people when your neighbors claim they never knew anything about fascism.

Air Force Major Who Called for Trump's Impeachment is in Solitary Confinement 24 Hours a Day

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If all goes well, Botstein will be alive when the criminal investigations get under way.

eon Botstein, a former president of Bard College in New York, resigned from his remaining academic posts on Wednesday after Jamie Raskin, a Democrat and senior member of the House judiciary committee, wrote a letter to the university linking him to several emails in the tranche of documents relating to the Epstein investigation.

It included an email from May 2014 that was attributed to Mr Botstein, in which the author asked Epstein whether a young woman was “for me, or are you keeping her for yourself”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/10/09/democrats-leak-names-from-redacted-epstein-files/

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The voters know it, despite the denials by Krasnov & Company.

Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And who doesn't love Ferrero Rocher? Or, was that _cherrypie's point?

Image of Alexander Skargard in a special suit. Comment says: He looks like a Ferrero Rocher.

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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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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Putting the "stain" in sustainable. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Those of us who have recently eaten farm-raised seafood are participating in a developing environmental crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/08/magazine/farm-raised-fish-aquaculture-overfishing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.cWAi.o-e5-scXCW_H&smid=url-share

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good thing we know this kind of data could never be applied to free gifts and travel given to US Supreme Court justices

Landmark review analysed millions of doctors' prescribing practices to understand how they were affected by visits from sales representatives and covered travel.
https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch-doctors-heavily-influenced-by-pharma-freebies-major-review-finds-20261009-p613en.html

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So, 1824 isn't all that different from 2026

1824: One can scarcely trust fame or credit in these days of misrepresentation and deception, writes John Clare.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't there some Corey Doctorow book title that is appropriate here? 💙📚

6 Broken Bathrooms Force Flight to Make an Urgent Landing

An American Airlines flight was diverted to New York on Tuesday because of an “inadequate number of operational lavatories” — two, on a plane that normally has eight.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Luckily, I'm not invited to Margaret Atwood's for dinner this evening. 💙📚

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The evidence for this is not available in Washington, D.C., though the study presupposes that a brain is present at the outset.

"Nature" reports brain can regenerate: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03132-w

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reviewed Anne Carson's 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 decades ago for the 𝐵𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑤𝑟 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤. bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2003/2003.02...

bmcr.brynmawr.edu

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

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Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Didn't receive a NYT "breaking news" notice when POTUS said another country is free to destroy two cities. A day that will live in infamy. Krasnov didn't even suggest his California supporters could save themselves by hiding in catering carts & wheeling themselves to Arizona

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you’re looking for a justification to shout at your TV, this will do the trick. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

bbc.co.uk

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A very warm welcome to all new students starting today. The Admissions Book awaits in the Wren Library. We can't wait to meet you.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Clearly, few in government have bothered to watch Errol Morris's 𝑀𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ.

Image of poster for Errol Morris documentary "Mr. Death"

Tennessee Prison Chief Was Hired Despite a Trail of Troubled Executions

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/frank-strada-tennessee-executions-arizona-christa-pike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.1pGZ.Pt3_7sQTBwsi&smid=url-share

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The NFL gets $500,000 & the sex worker received $140. Which one is prostitution?

Jed York suspended six games [not really], fined $500k

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, HRs at every company offering "AI agents" will be holding special months-long training for supervisors & CEOs who don't listen? Lots of books by CEOs about how great managers they are. Few about their clogged ears.

OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn't Doing Enough About Security

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tech CEOs learn nothing from science, from clinical trials, from testing before issuing claims & promises.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oil & gas companies make enormous profits, but claim helplessness when they're asked to fix their messes. Maybe the Colorado sweatshirt is worn ironically? Remember when OK had earthquakes due to fracking?

The Meredith family were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act like it would go away,” the family says.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can buy BROKEN BISCUITS direct from HarperCollins with 40% off using the code AUTUMN40, which is what I’d do if I didn’t already know what happens at the end*. harpercollins.co.uk/products/bro... *it’s memoir, so what happens at the end is me posting this link and urging you to buy it.

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Douglas Stuart's 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛: "Is Bella peeing like a dog again?" "Yes," he said. "She is."

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Coming to a college & university near you. Administrators will salivate once they hear they can "evaluate" your teaching this way. It's "objective." It generates numbers. It treats every teaching experience the same. It's something they can buy from a third party; they love that. #academicsky

The AI is trained to flag problems in their performance ranging from not fixing a disruption to the online connection quickly enough – within about a minute – to using too many “filler” phrases, such as “sort of” and “kind of”.

Teachers called the newly introduced system “remorseless” and “unnerving”, and said some staff were on edge, losing sleep and seeking therapy.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/teachers-euan-blair-firm-report-horrendous-stress-ai-used-to-rate-their-work

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/09/2026

Do you like reading *about* speculative fiction? Do you like revising and offering feedback? Do you have strong but civil opinions about comma placement? ARB could use your help!

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Call for Volunteer Editors!

The Ancillary Review of Books is looking to grow our editorial team! ARB is an online magazine that publishes reviews and critical essays, centered on speculative fiction and related non-fict…

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Conversation killer recognized by someone who has studied what happens when people talk:

2. Don't answer their story with yours.

"I just got back from Lisbon."

"Oh I went to Porto last year, it was amazing."

You meant it as connection. It lands as a takeover. Their story just ended and yours started. This was one of the most common replays he collected, from the receiving end: "they answered my story with theirs and the floor disappeared."

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CNN's web editors having a problem with subject-verb agreement. "The legacy has." You can do it. Singular with singular.

CNN headline: "The legacy of thriving Black farmers have [sic] been largely lost to time"

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mephistopheles' quarterly profits continue to rise, because we're not seeing many letters like the one from Sheri Mecklenberg. Too many are willing to sell their souls to dance in the fascist ballroom.

"You have forced me to choose remaining silent while my professional reputation is destroyed and prematurely surrendering my cherished career." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/25/us/mecklenburgletter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.3gpB.cow-MyYA48TM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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krajewskib.bsky.social @krajewskib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a world where hardly any guardrails have been put up for crypto, you can imagine how happy sports gambling organizations are about lack of regulation. Jake Pearson provides a convincing case that capitalism wants to hurt you.

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