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“I think this is really good, honestly” is what he said.

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Yeah I get that. I'm just used to ship-of-Theseus-ing the enshittification away as good as I can

Sublime Text to the rescue

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Got an email that your demo is out – good luck with it! Hope my ancient Windows laptop can handle it. Did you know we're launching on the same day by the way?!

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13h

He's actually VERY good at it. A real pro. So nice to see someone understand how our game is meant to be played off the bat.

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Northern Lion just called our game "swag" and I might be losing it

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Should have called it Ultima Undercooked though.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

(I have never owned a card in my life and neither run a luxury brand so this is just me doing the grandfather Simpson as one does on social media)

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Funny world where the only European car brand that knows its market and customers is Ferrari. Everyone else seems hell bound on competing with a superior manufacturing environment and losing.

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think the 40s are a great time to go and chase your dreams because I'm so much more chill than in my 20s.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes that's true, a cartel is the usual alternative outcome. Makes everyone look far better, too, because they can pretend to still uphold the good old capitalist tradition of competition while sharing the pie.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Indeed they were. At all of it

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s starting. People will cheer and then we will be left with a US monopoly and dozens of Chinese models.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The built in script editor. I would LOVE if it would have standard refactoring tools like any modern IDE.

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Broken Rules @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Our second game Secrets of Rætikon is part of Birds of Play, a Steam event all about birds. Go and check out all the wonderful games featuring birds over here 👉 store.steampowered.com/sale/BirdsOf... Thanks @alphachar.bsky.social for making this happen!

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Birds of Play

Come on in and find exclusive demos, new releases, and plenty of discounts.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Think I meant incarnation when I wrote iteration but that's just prove I'm not a replicant (or a very well hidden one)

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The tears will be back in the rain it seems. What a stellar cast. Can't wait to watch it (even after the unnecessary last iteration in this series that was never meant to be a series).

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

《鸟雀斗》试玩版的中文版现已推出。

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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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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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You should all get in on this. Fantastic book!

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My first exhibition piece was based on a screen lying on the floor so I might be biased :D

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We're looping our stream on the page for the rest of the day/night. Enjoy bird nerds nerding out about birds. Play games with birds in them. Grow wings. Be free.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(And they all seem to point at a) surprisingly little productivity gains in practice and b) people getting used to being lazy very easily. But I think that's not a complete picture of the situation.)

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That all being said I'm happy about all these studies that try to understand the effect of this technology on individuals and organisations.

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The results and method are valid but I doubt this is very AI-specific. We humans tend to get used to tools quite easily and it's a different thing to have something taken away than to start out without it.

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They had participants first use AI to find answers and then took it away. I'm pretty sure my ability to do calculations would also go down if you give me a calculator for 10 minutes and then take it away instead of letting me do math by hand from the get-go.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ended up having two games in the festival itself (of the three bird games I've released in my life): Good old Secrets of Raetikon which still looks stunning thanks to the custom-written vector graphics engine we made at @brokenrulesgames.bsky.social. store.steampowered.com/app/246680/S...

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Secrets of Rætikon on Steam

Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kicking off our celebration of bird games tonight with a stream at 7pm where I will juggle bird game devs from around the globe *metaphorically, of course*.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I truly hope that I will visit that lovely corner of France again soon. Clermant-Ferrand and Burgundy are both lovely so Lyon should go on my list too.

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You know I secretly went through Paris twice since we last met but both times only changing bus or train so I didn't tell anyone. Had a quick walk hunting for Space Invaders and some great Vietnamese food though which was nice. Next time I'll ping you!

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well I guess the story that it's sold with is just too catchy for people angry at Adobe not to repost with glee

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have browsed the whole article but since I'm not from the field I can only trust the thoroughness of their research and the conclusions of OP. There's little doubt about the capabilities of the models but a lot of doubt about how they are used in actual industry settings.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I came for the compassion but staid for the thinly veiled criticism of our current form of capitalism's worst outcomes. And, yes, I miss more dignity in public discourse.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One day. It was not _that_ embarrassing but still...

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's not what the report is about

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Needless to say I was super nervous but Dr. Heinz Fischer is (was?) a very nice man and smiled at me when he saw how nervous I was. Great experience and not as embarrassing as hugging a princess (longer story). So .. yes but not all politicians, I guess.