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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the things I love most about watching old Wallace & Gromit shorts (not exactly high art, but arguably very much high art) is that you can see fingerprints in the surface of the characters. May all your creations have fingerprints.

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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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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

30 years from now; a person hugs their sister, who looks nothing alike, before being wheeled into surgery. The category of family by adoption has been broadened. People can legally become all kinds of relatives, in addition to the previous spouses and parents. Of course, it does require paperwork.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

30 years from now: a woman walks out of her 7th story apartment into a central common area, she dodges one of her neighbors' kids on their tricycle before making it to the elevator. She's on her way to her new job, managing and maintaining the native plants along the city's water infrastructure.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

30 years from now: a grandmother stretches and gets out of bed for the second time. Her daughter-in-law is in the kitchen with a baby. "Thanks for getting breakfast ready" they say. The grandmother shrugs as she grabs herself a lukewarm mug. "I wake up too early these days, it was no trouble."

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

30 yeaars from now: somewhere in the world, a grandfather is waking up to his grandchildren running into his room for a hug. His son has the backpacks slung over his shoulder and shoes them down the stairs toward the front door. If they don't head off on their bikes, they'll be late to school.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

I won't give up if we don't. I'm not believing that Magic Will Happen and we'll win. I believe it's always worth trying 172% because what the fuck is the alternative? Lay down like a quitter?? It's not in me, man. I'd rather get caught trying. And then I'll get up and try again.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I miss old school forums.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/10/2026

If you’ve been waiting to get involved in the midterms, now is the time! We’ve got lots of ways that you can make a difference from anywhere over these final four weeks: indivisible2026.org?utm_source=b...

(over an image of a map of the US that shows Indivisible’s nine Senate target states and 31 House target districts for the midterm elections) It’s time to win the midterms.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On Sam Altman: “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” Aaron Swartz told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americas political platform is increasingly dangerously far from where its voters are

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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

up until recently, this was normal no? ever since i remember, it’s very normal for people to be kicked out of their house at 18 and go no contact. this was a very US coded thing and parents would say with pride. now that it’s not on the parents side, it’s the kid making the decision, it’s an issue?

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This isn't a *recent trend*. I come from a family with FOUR GENERATIONS of estrangement. Children who hated/avoided their parents who hated/avoided their grandparents who hated/avoided their great grandparents. What would you call disowning or disfellowship if not estrangement? This is so stupid.

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Film Crit Hulk @filmcrithulk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The way every single tech thing in existence conspires against you performing a manual backup these days is genuinely bewildering.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With the help of alcohol I am happily chatty, a woman's woman, unrepentant and positive, and a vocal ally. How can I be more of that person when my nervous system isn't numb?

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Congrars. I actually laughed out loud at that. This whole event is horrifying/fascinating!

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Justice is not the same as violence. Justice is not state issued revenge. Justice is never bigger or harsher than the infraction. Justice isn't determined by the bredth of a victim's emotional pain.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My other unpopular take (one that actually goes against my own instincts); there is no problem in the world, no matter how big or bad, that *requires* violence and cruelty to solve.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My unpopular take; the earth is so productive and our traport system so well executed that are very few places in the world where people need to eat animal meat to live healthy lives.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am so tired of this shit. And not tired in the exhausted way, not in the way they want. I'm tired like a bow that's been leaned against a boulder or like Bruce Banner (Hilk's human form). I feel strung tight and left to wait and each of these horrible stupid things pulls me that much tighter.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 21/09/2026

Wishing a meaningful Yom Kippur to our neighbors observing in the #MA7 and around the world. May your fast be easy and your year full of blessings. G'Mar Chatima Tova!

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This doesn't seem very Futurist.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gods, heartbreaking :*(

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Caidyn‎ @caidyn.net · 19/09/2026

scientists reveal the secret

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today, I tried a drink called Alive Mood+Mind Reset Root Beer and let me tell you! Have you ever been lost in a forest and come to a mysterious mossy cottage where an older woman listens to your troubles before handing you an unknown elixir and telling you to drink? That's what this tastes like.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not great when you recognize the whole AI thing reflects the mentality and worldview of white supremacist slavers looking for free labor to increase their profits while doing nothing and also living in total, all-consuming fear that there will be an uprising that leads to their violent comeuppance.

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ben goshorn @thesoccergoose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*screams in rural America*

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dreamed, hoped for, and marinated on. When working with kids, you get results when you don't just give a no but a yes. "Stop kicking the ball in the living room, go to the front yard." We'll get ourselves nowhere if we're so focused on fighting facism and climate change that we lose our inspiration!

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the wake of someone (can't remember who) saying Democrats need to become the party of the Future, I have been trying to look up positive scenarios for the future and Let 👏 Me 👏 Tell 👏 You 👏 they are very hard to find. Positive change doesn't spontaneously appear, it has to be imagined,

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also if these tech shitheads had ACTUALLY created dangerous AI god systems that are basically weapons of mass destruction then China would have them too and you wouldn’t be able to breathe for all the fearmongering and you bet your ass the government would be sprinting to do something.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm so over this heat! 🥵🤢

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'M DONE WITH THE HEAT

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Lori @loridak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maypop fruit leather and all the bumblebees in the garden

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/09/2026

every time I see this I am reminded that the one (1) thing stopping all of these policies is that most political parties don’t actually want democracy to be fair and equal

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