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Samuelson leans back, smirks, and responds: "if Parliament asks six economists for an opinion on any subject they always got seven answers. Two from John Maynard Keynes. Change my..." Keynes punches Samuelson in face. "Change that, fuckhead," he reasons.

Keynes goes over to Samuelson's stall and says "Dickhead, in 1978 you admitted you stole it from me, change my mind."

Soon after: economist Paul Samuelson sets up a stall next to Keynes with a sign saying "The attribution to Keynes is apocryphal, actually it was me, I said it on Meet the Press in 1970, change my mind"

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New development: John Maynard Keynes sets up a stall outside Crowder's office with a sign saying "I came up with the fucking phrase in the first place, change my mind".

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“That, in turn, protects my children, in their duration”. - someone employed for one of the world’s most important public speaking jobs

Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When I was arts editor at the Age I deleted liminal and all variants from all copy on sight. Overused wank word.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Two bonkers RNC 2020 speeches. Wonder which of the 2026 speeches we'll be reviewing down the track... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErSd... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aijw...

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WATCH: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s full speech at the Republican National Convention | 2020 RNC Night 1

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When you've run with a nonsense story for a week and it becomes completely untenable, you have only two options. Double down with a convoluted meta conspiracy theory, or perform a brazen reverse ferret and pretend you never thought otherwise. Fox chose option A.

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Taking the long view, looking forward to a new golden age for the rave scene in the abandoned warehouses of the AI datacentre bubble.

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For my entire adult life my dumb brain had stored the factoid that Beethoven based the opening of his 5th symphony on the Morse code of ‘V’ for victory and I only just realised it’s clearly nonsense.

I almost didn’t notice this album when it came out, because… a lot was going on. But I go back to it more and more. It’s stunning. Zuel nails it.

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When your business model is trying to hide enormous losses for long enough that a bigger competitor will buy you.

Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.

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I have no idea how Grouse House can possibly be a viable operation but I gave them money anyway. www.grousehouse.tv

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

He does make a good point. tho obviously 2 wrongs don't make a right etc etc

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Bach, of course, triumphs.... OR DOES HE???? Back in the future, a rebel human organist makes a horrific discovery. It was there in plain sight, a taunt from the past. One of Bach's greatest pieces is called AIr on the G String. The robot one. The Bach we know and love? THAT WAS THE AI. The end

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Shenanigans ensue. In the climactic scene, Bach and the DECOMPOSER battle it out for the favour of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, each creating more and more beautiful music.

So the AIs create a robot the call the DECOMPOSER and they send it back in time to KILL BACH and ensure their complete triumph.

Movie synopsis 1/x AI on the G String It's Amadeus meets Terminator. In the near future, AI has taken over all the creative arts. But the rebellion is growing, fuelled by one glimmer of hope. No AI can reproduce Bach. It's just beyond them. There's something ineffable there.

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Possibly true but also possible they just don’t care, or think we can, over time, be persuaded to enjoy different more monetisable things.

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Personally find AI pretty useful but… I think I’d be perfectly happy if we just turned it all off and got on with our lives? Like, there would be absolutely no bad consequences from doing that? I realise it is not going to happen.

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

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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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Goodness, imagine the scenes when ‘taxpayers subsidise the tax office’. Because usually the tax office is subsidised by, um, help me out here…

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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 19/11/2025

as far as I can tell from the coverage so far, the result in the Holborn by-election is basically a Rorschach inkblot test for everyone's political opinion that they already had

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ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you

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Fun fact, in 1877, Wallace Wilkerson was sentenced to death by firing squad after shooting a man to death during a heated game of cribbage. He moved slightly just before the firing squad shot and took 27 minutes to die.

Inside Trump’s Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site

This is a really cool way of taking you into the space of a story. It works because it's not just a gimmick, it's the essence of what it's about. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What if raising interest rates actually makes inflation worse? It's heresy... but... maybe the increased cost of borrowing is just tacked onto prices, and the spiral goes up. I'm no economist but these people are. strangematters.coop/interest-rat... www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

mind you that's just the El Nino hotspot, it doesn't mean that the oceans as a whole are.... oh...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 01/10/2026

Eyewitnesses recall a plunge towards the desert, screams from the cockpit, and a lifesaving counterattack Nick Miller explains Read more: trib.al/VdF14bI

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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My six year olds love @privateeyenews.bsky.social for some reason. They keep picking it up, looking over it for a while, then asking impossible-to-answer questions like “who’s Ed Davey?”

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.”

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Shame though, that's a lovely old bridge. Surely a handful of freight trains, and four Melb-Sydney passenger trains a day would be easy enough to shuttle over the bridge in between the airport runs?

This has caused a century and a half of railway planning headaches. The current theory seems to be that, rather than duplicating track, it's smarter/cheaper to order trains with smart axles that adjust for both tracks. networkrailconsulting.com/media/innova...

The reason Victoria's rail gauges are so fucked is because an Irish engineer persuaded Sydney to build its original lines using the Irish Broad instead of English/Standard gauge, then his successor a Scotsman reversed that decision but Victoria and South Australia had already ordered their trains!

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...or back into conspiracy theory land, that someone reckoned there was more easy government money to be made from building a whole new bridge next to an existing one.