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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ICE is at once Trumpism in its purest form and the endpoint of its progenitor, G*mergate: unqualified 22-year-old couch potatoes, failsons, and self-styled madmen given weapons and complete impunity to play IRL video games with people's lives, to ruin personal enemies or anyone who disdains them.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 4h

When people talk about this I am convinced that it is not actually what they want. I don’t believe Nikita actually wants to play GTA Palo Alto or whatever. He just thinks that that’s what the cattle want. Or rather, he thinks that you (investor) think that that’s what the cattle want.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 4h

Why would your friends join? Why wouldn’t they just play the GTA that’s in their hometown about their own hopes and dreams?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine if Democrats were campaigning on "No immigrants in sports" or "No healthcare for Black children" or "I don't support biological Jews". You know it would be outright evil. Why does your calculus change when those same arguments are made about trans people?

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

I've said it before, but this is deeply Kadyrov-coded

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 8h

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3h

A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3h

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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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 2h

They’re already calling it “the easiest honeypot operation of all time”

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5h

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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mrindig0.bsky.social @mrindig0.bsky.social · 10m

Did they get hit by the cactuar light?

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Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 1h

A timely reminder that parasocial indies are not a replacement for job security, for industry stability. Their recent Kickstarter made me wary of how it plays into this cult of personality that insulates them from scrutiny.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1h

i genuinely think they make him do this because they know he’s bad at it because he gets bad reviews because it’s bad for his brand and because they’re extremely mad about all his iran leaks.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 6h

About time. Dems would need just 5 of the 21 toss-ups to hit 218; if they take all the toss-ups and better but nothing more, that's 234. The @fiftyplusone.news model median estimate is 243.

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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 55m

He's already doing it now, so it's going to be bad. If it is a rout, as looks increasingly likely, the first play will be Republicans rejecting the results.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 59m

The one thing which does worry me about the mid-term rout that's coming is just the reckless lashing out which may follow - because ultimately that military, intelligence support which the US provides would still, practically at least, be in Trump's hands - and the Dem's won't care as much.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1h

Ukrainian refinery strikes continue, Putin fails to export diesel which doesn't actually exist, Trump inevitably blames Zelenskyy. Rinse and repeat. The Kremlin has never played a US President easier.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1h

So Russia is apparently exporting diesel to the US which they themselves can't even put into petrol pumps around Moscow. Right.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 53m

I cannot wait for the next president we have who doesn't routinely make shit up about international affairs and is never once fact-checked by the the media. this is so destabilizing.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 55m

this feels like a classic 'we're gonna do x' wild suggestion that catches everyone, including the supposed business partner, completely off guard.

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ozahjc.bsky.social @ozahjc.bsky.social · 29m

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 53m

Australia is sending military support to the country at war with our ally's trading partner.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

The official lifting of sanctionson Russian diesel through April 2027. ofac.treasury.gov/media/937216...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 50m

“these vile crimes were only ever an inevitability under this president's watch. In fact, these depravities are the only promise Donald Trump has ever kept.” Damn okay go off

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 46m

Hi @techcrunch.com you had a typo in your headline, I fixed it for you

A person who works at the company Anthropic sent
a false report to the police using a program that
automatically fabricates police reports

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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 38m

....... .... This is what happens when you Listen to Jensen Huang and decide math isn't important anymore.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 49m

i have no desire to get into a fight with this person, hence the screenshot, but, like, it’s just completely inaccurate. every state that’s ended or put a moratorium on state executions is a blue state with a blue legislature and governor. there’s more work to do here, but it is only done by dems

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 51m

i take issue with the idea that dems play a central role in executions. at the federal level, no dem president has overseen an execution since JFK. at the state level, there are more than i would like, but they’re typically states with purple or red legislatures.

One more thing about the death penalty before going offline. As disgusted as we should be by Trump's bloodlust, we should NOT lose sight of the CENTRAL role of Democrats in upholding, expanding, and enabling this system that seems to horrify so many people right now. It really cannot be said enough

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

I will point out, however, that serious scientists are cautious with their claims. Furthermore, as we wrote in 2021 (in "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜"), p.616: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... >>

Screencap from linked article, highlighted portion:

This can seem counter-intuitive given the
increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we
have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language
text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own
linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether
or not they do [89, 140].

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I am not the one making the extraordinary claim, so it is not my job to specify what the evidence should be. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc? Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer: >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

1. Can a language model feel pain? Clearly not. Large language models are computer software and they can no more suffer than any other human-created artifact can. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1h

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

There has been some good improvement and expansion of ML tools in the "AI is here" years but exactly, nothing getting actual use is all that different from what was being developed before genAI took off.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stuff that existed before "AI" but has since been rebranded to sound like it's from the future.

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Enrico🐀 @redbassett.com · 28/09/2026

Also most of the "we used AI" business success stories are editors having a few new ML powered audio or transcription tools.

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, advertising is where I’ve seen the biggest shift, and it started early there - but that field has always been about “fast and cheap” (Even before genAI, a lot of smaller jobs were being lost to either Fivrr sweatshop garbage or those clip-art based “make your own animated video for $5” sites)

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is where it's going to have the biggest impact -- on projects where the client really dgaf about quality.

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m pretty sure it’s been having some impact on smaller animation gigs, like corporate and advertising videos, which is where most of my work comes from and which has slowed to a few small gigs I’ve legit seen clients messing with genAI to replace art, video, and VO, it’s extremely disheartening 🫠

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is AI taking some jobs in the industry? Probably. I'm sure there's some really shitty producer out there just feeding your scripts into ChatGPT and asking it to do coverage instead of paying readers. But it's not wide spread for multiple reasons.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And when the strikes ended, with interest rates still high, there was just a general contraction across the entire industry. Everyone had accepted there was no point in creating mass amount of new shows for streaming and the number of productions stayed lowered.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So we had this period where interest rates were high and unions were on strike that ground production to a halt. Studios wanted to end the strikes, yes, but also they were thankful because it let them kill SOOOOO many productions in a high interest rate environment.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think a lot of people understand how much interest rates affect film production. They don't just open up a vault at Disney, pull out a couple gold bricks and say "go make a Star War." Most film budgets are structured as complicated loans. High interest rates makes investment less attractive.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.

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