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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4h
This is the shit you love to hear just as everybody is feeling extremely anxious about the opaque ROI of AI and specifically AI capex in Meta’s case. You want a story where your CFO says “it will be really bad if you’re wrong about this”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10h
hey we might break a bunch of private property because we want the biggest IPO possible this is OK in a way burglary is not, because
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h
The taking pictures of what people are texting in public trend is pretty psycho. Like yeah most of the time what they’re texting about is pretty embarrassing or bad or whatever, but normalization of looking over stranger’s shoulders and surveilling them for #content is pretty psycho!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h
Seven people detained previously by ICE filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the agency, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal documents and belongings months after they were released from custody.
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ICE sued for refusing to return detainees' papers and property
One plaintiff is jobless after his work authorization was taken. The agency also won't return his wedding ring.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13h
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15h
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 18h
Halloween in Hanbok 12
My version of the Headless Horseman in hanbok!
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 17h
Watching Katie Zacharia repeat the Trump Admin’s blatant lies without the usual shameless confidence we’re used to is jarring. Shows you how much of this administration’s unreality is being upheld by pure dishonest bravado. The lies fall even flatter without it.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Congresswoman Suzan DelBene @repdelbene.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor & celebrate the rich cultures & contributions of Indigenous people in WA & across the country. As we recognize this day, let’s continue our strong support for Indigenous communities in the fight for justice & equality.
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Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Time to get cosy with a big pile of books and a bottle of something sparkly ✨ A little experiment in trying to make my digital drawings look more textured, using digital gouache and pencil 💖
Glamorous redheaded woman reading a book on a pink sofa, while holding a glass of champagne. She’s surrounded by piles of books and flowers
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk, the world's only trillionaire, has given more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. It’s a turnaround since last May, when Musk said he intended to cut back on future political spending.
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Elon Musk quietly becomes biggest known donor in midterm contests as he tries to save Republicans
Trillionaire Elon Musk has quietly become the biggest known spender in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
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SciShow @scishow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Please watch our Deep Dive on the Dyatlov Pass Incident. It’s one of the most infamous cold cases of all time, and we get deep into the snowy model that unexpectedly helped us figure it out. The episode is available now at youtu.be/9yYQHUTv9t4?...!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
ALT: That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
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Zoe Jazz @zoejazz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
TW:SA. Believe fat people when we talk about being raped and/or recieving sexual harassment. Consider that fat people (believe this article specifies women) may simultaneously be more likely to be abused and less likely to be believed or receive empathy about it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Tipping the Scales: Effects of Gender, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Anti-Fat Attitudes on Judgments of Sexual Coercion Scenarios - Alexandra M. Zidenberg, Brandon Sparks, Leigh Harkins, Sara K. Lidstone,...
A damaging belief exists that to become a victim of sexual violence, victims must be deemed sexually desirable. As a result, sexual violations where the victims...
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🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 COMMISSIONS OPEN @blacksalander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Selene
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nmo @nmo6833.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
トレリド♣️🌹 今日のお菓子はスイートアバター🍬
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Halloween in Hanbok 11
Cow Witch and Tiger Witch in hanbok!
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Halloween in Hanbok 10
Deer Witch and Fox Witch in hanbok!
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Our information environments are subject to manipulation by oligarchs and foreign powers, but this, too, is material. Ukraine’s strategic counter-strikes also defend electoral democracies far away from the war itself.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
U.S. has threatened to block arms for Ukraine over its attacks on Russian refineries, lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries. - FT
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026
if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Daily birds 86 - Nicobar pigeon
A bird with the grey head of a pigeon that transforms into long spiky feathers and a body with green and orange shiny feathers
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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Celesse ✿ @celesse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Shadow Prince 👑🖤 #art #Drawtober
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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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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Halloween in Hanbok 09
Cat Witch and Rabbit Witch in hanbok!
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Daily birds 85 - Eurasian cormorant
A sea bird with a white face with green eyes, yellow cheeks and spiky hair with white streaks, its body is black with large brown wings spread out sunning itself
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel is titled “things that are spooky”. We see a book of hexes, a skull, candles, a pentagram in blood, and vampire teeth. Pointing off panel we see a speech bubble that says “I love it”.
The second panel is titled “things that are cute”. We see a strawberry cake, a boba drink, a bunny plushie, and a cute notebook and pen. Again, we see a speech bubble pointing off panel that says “I love it”.
The third panel is titled “things that are spooky AND cute”. We see a row of cute decorative ghosts.
The fourth panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, completely freaking out at this combination.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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looceyloo @looceyloo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
started reading Carmilla on a whim and hoo boy it's a font of inspiration 👀 #wip
Screenshot of a rough digital painting depicting two women embracing. One is blonde and wears a red dress - she is looking at the viewer with apprehension. The other is a brunette in a dark navy dress. Her face is obscured as she leans her head to rest on the blonde's shoulder.
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Sakura-Con @sakuraconofficial.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sakura-Con 2027 Artist Alley applications are open! Apps are capped at 1800, and close 10/23 at 9pm Pacific if we haven't hit the cap by then. Apply ASAP, we can't accept apps past capacity or the deadline. sakuracon.org/exhibitors/artist-all…
Sakura-Con Artist Alley applications are open graphic
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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Halloween in Hanbok 08
Witch Crocodile and Witch Goat in hanbok standing side by side
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Daily birds 84 - Keel-billed toucan
A black bird with a yellow chest and a huge curved green beak with blue, orange and red markings and blue feet
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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nimbus-cloud.bsky.social @nimbus-cloud.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wtf
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education
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nimbus-cloud.bsky.social @nimbus-cloud.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why is UPS still charging import fees? As I recall, the Supreme Court said the tariffs were unlawful, and on top of that, UPS got $500 million in refunds for tariff fees that they passed onto consumers. So after being unjustly enriched, why are they still trying to rip off the average consumer?
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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📐 Maria Picassó Piquer @mariapicasso.com · 08/10/2026
🔵 Margaret Hamilton 1936 — 2026
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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sven Brasch (1886-1979)
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