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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm taking my "Norway's wealth tax didn't reduce tax revenue" victory lap.

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, nor is there any evidence that the reform induced more bankruptcies. ...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 09/10/2026

Everything is computer, except computer, which is power

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

get slopped idiot

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/10/2026

At long last, we have created the largely inert and harmless AI that doesn't really want anything from the classic sci-fi novel If You Happen To Create A Largely Inert And Harmless AI Without Wants Or Autonomy, Stop! Take A Victory Lap! Don't Give It Wants Or Autonomy! Our work has only just begun.

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werewolf ver mitzvah 🗿 @ver.ooo · 06/10/2026

yeah that's about right

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026

"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what did he know

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The Verge @theverge.com · 30/09/2026

Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it’s making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively reached out to the SCP Foundation Wiki team and has pledged to release it under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.

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Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie

The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year.

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joe ⧉ 🍷🌊 @joetforhire.com · 29/09/2026

i saw it in a vision

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 25/09/2026

mc escher is old news, have you seen ｓｈｉｎｊｕｋｕ　ｓｔａｔｉｏｎ　ｍａｐｓ

A neon wireframe of Shinjuku Station hangs in a black-violet void. Purple streets stretch toward the horizon above a white-and-cyan knot of platforms, tunnels, and intersecting passages. Corridors cross themselves, divide, and return at heights that no longer agree. The streets describe a flat city; the station beneath them describes something considerably larger. There are no solid walls, only the exposed edges of an interior that has escaped its building. In the upper-right corner, a small control panel offers checkboxes for floors 4F through B3, suggesting that the geometry might become possible again if enough of it were hidden.

An intricate blue-ink drawing unfolds Shinjuku Station into an impossible architectural dissection. Orange, lavender, pale-blue, green, and pink passages weave between banks of railway platforms, diving beneath streets and resurfacing inside structures that should be outside the station. Stairways stitch together overlapping planes. Buildings stand along the edges of the cutaway, but the deeper the drawing goes, the less certain it becomes which space contains which. Tiny Japanese annotations patiently catalogue the contradiction. A smaller explanatory diagram occupies the lower-left corner, offering another station inside the drawing of the station. The white paper between the corridors could be daylight, solid ground, or further rooms.

An exploded diagram of Shibuya Station arranges disconnected floors in white space like an Escher staircase equipped with public amenities. Platforms and concourses hover above one another, linked by dense flights of stairs, sloping escalators, and blue elevator shafts. The labels descend from 3F to B5F, although height appears to be negotiated separately in each part of the image. Several places claim to be B1F. Patches labelled “ground level” occur partway through the machinery. Red accessible routes trace a meticulous course through the impossible structure, passing toilets, ticket machines, and numbered exits. The legend at the bottom explains every symbol except how to get outside.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

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Panic @panic.com · 17/09/2026

me when I finally reply to your email

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cafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ngl how it feels talking about "AI danger" now that some random person left Anthropic and everyone over 40 is scared and you have to simultaneously explain it is serious but also overblown

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 14/09/2026

made this

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Houthis: what the fuck, you told us it was economical to build the IR sensor with aluminum foil instead of mercury cadmium telluride Claude: That is exactly the right challenge to raise, and the honest answer is that the claim was asserted rather than demonstrated. Inshallah it won't happen again

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is a nonzero chance that inside a decade, someone may be killed by an autonomous weapon system using an open weight model that was originally abliterated for erotic purposes.

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Yojimbro @metabr0h.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I preferred it when the hyperreal was more hypothetical

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Yojimbro @metabr0h.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Exhibit A in “money isn’t about money, it’s about power”

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/08/2026

I saw these guys at the Troubadour before they got big

FAULT LINES
SUBARU SOCIALISTS AND THE GREAT DISAPPOINTED
The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
By Jay Caspian Kang
August 4, 2026

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Yojimbro @metabr0h.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I miss 90s-style techno optimism - we all thought we were gonna be keyboard cowboys, but now we’re all keyboard cows. Moo.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"we live in a paul verhoeven movie" "which one?" "ALL OF THEM"

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Yojimbro @metabr0h.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The list of everything wrong with Gotham is straight up hilarious

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Yojimbro @metabr0h.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

By definition, you’ve got to be embodied to have visceral experiences, bro

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

2000ish years of writing songs with lyrics (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilo...) and still we haven't ever done better than "Knock me down, I get right back up'again // Come back stronger than a powered-up-pacman" What are we even doing here?

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Seikilos epitaph - Wikipedia

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