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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026
Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."
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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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the tech bros telling you LLMs are conscious don’t think women are people.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An ICE officer shot a man and then lied about everything in an official investigation. Now Texas Republican officials are shielding him from extradition to stand trial in Minnesota because they believe ICE officers are entitled to absolute immunity for violent crimes against US citizens.
apnews.com
ICE officer charged in Minneapolis shooting released in Texas after immediate extradition rejected
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has been released from a Texas jail after a judge refused ...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Every trillionaire is a moral and a policy failure.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So they’ll ban the pogrom instigating, csam social media site right? The one the trilionaire uses to spread white supremacy across the globe? They care so much for the children right? Dunno think the children would be safer if The Nazi App wasnt legal and part of government comms
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The global far right led by highly online white nationalists like Elon Musk has had its Kristallnacht moment, producing images that shock the conscience. How will the world respond?
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/05/2026
Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Everyone knows that $1.7 billion is going straight in Trump’s pocket, right?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/05/2026
QUINTANILLA: According to the filings, the president has been trading some Intel in the quarter JIM CRAMER: Yeah, uh, yeah, hmm FABER: Got nothing to say? CRAMER: Uh, uh, yeah, whoa, yeah. FABER: Don't worry. We're not having technical difficulties, but we gotta go
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sean Duffy's corruption is palpable. Boeing and Toyota donated $1 million each to help fund a new reality-television inspired show starring Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy with his family on a road trip. Others contributed services and goods. All are regulated by Duffy.
wsj.com
Boeing, Toyota Donated $1 Million Each to Transportation Secretary’s Road-Trip Show
A video series will feature Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family on a road trip to mark America’s 250th birthday and promote tourism.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...
The Girl With The Cat Earring, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.Bridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The Snow
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...
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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hello from Minneapolis.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The White House bunker has never been intended to be a place a president would actually run a crisis from long-term. Why is Trump evidently trying to change that now & build a super-bunker? There's no scenario I can think of where this makes sense—except one: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-troubl...
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The Trouble with Trump's Bunker and Ballroom
Is he building it to sustain an attack — or the end of democracy?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/04/2026
Rich men have always manipulated society to maximize profits—but something else entirely is happening with today’s billionaires, Noah Hawley argues. He recounts what he saw during his weekend at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat:
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd
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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The entire modern GOP is one giant pile of graft and grifting. It’s grifters all the way down.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...
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DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro's removal: Sources
Authorities have arrested an U.S. soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro for allegedly pocketing more than $400,000 by betting on his capture, sources say.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ghislaine Maxwell abused young women & girls alongside Epstein for years. As young as 14. In multiple states. Convicted in a federal court. She belongs behind bars. I’m beyond disgusted that any of our colleagues would suggest a pardon. The real question is why has no one else been convicted?
politico.com
Oversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair says
The only convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein has said she would testify to Congress if granted clemency — a power held solely by the president.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Never before has a democratically elected leader deployed his own son-in-law in such a fashion. Jared Kushner serves as Trump's de facto emissary to Putin, Netanyahu, the Saudi Crown Prince, Zelenskyy, the Iranians and others...
sueddeutsche.de
Jared Kushner: Vermischt Trumps Schwiegersohn Politik und eigene Interessen?
Jared Kushner ist überall, wo Trump ihn brauchen kann: bei Putin, in Nahost, bei Merz, in Pakistan. Dass sich da politische und private Interessen möglicherweise vermischen, scheint in den USA nur die...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?" Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... " His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
forbes.com
Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
last week i filed my Norwegian taxes (i have income there). It was 6 clicks and 1 2FA entry. Less than 5 minutes to check the prefilled numbers, et voila. It should be this simple for the millions of USians who file the minimal 1040. Of course public health and pensions simplify reporting.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
One problem with American politics that doesn’t get talked about enough is the ~30% of voters who very much don’t want good things to happen to other people and would rather have hundreds of thousands of people crushed by medical debt than have a cent of their taxes go towards making society better
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 12/04/2026
I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Two real estate guys and a chancer who found fame and fortune by complaining.
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