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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 10h

An old man and his cat trade meows and words like old friends mid-chat, and science backs up why it feels so real.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

At the Bulletproof booth (3906) till 2pm at #NYCC! Then come by the Boom booth at 3 (3235) where you can get a free ashcan of NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC and probably hear my complaints about the Yankees and the Liberty!

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 17h

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes

Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 9h

Students at a Georgia high school staged a fake cafeteria fight to draw their principal over. Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School targeted Principal Bobby Davis on his birthday, highlighting the close bonds he has formed with students as a longtime school alumnus and first-year leader.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 7h

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9h

The BBC has sparked a backlash after censoring a pro-trans message which appeared on a Strictly Come Dancing star’s T-shirt

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 12h

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt

Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026

Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”

Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.

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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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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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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is what knowing your physics well means Original post

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote about My Undesirable Friends, a portrait of a nation's nosedive into fascism that is gripping, unsettling, and scarily relatable.

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An 11-Hour Masterpiece Is Finally Complete. It’s Riveting From Start to Finish. (Gift Article)

An urgent, riveting new documentary feels like it could be a dispatch from America’s future.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.

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Tasting History with Max Miller @tastinghistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Making the Original Apple Pie of Medieval England

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026

Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings

Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yarp, I became a Marxist during my history BA. There are right wing 'historians', but their work is generally sloppy bullshit which academic historians don't take seriously, yet publishers love. Historians for rent, in other words

Why are all history teachers left-wing, what's the real explanation?
Once you learn a sufficient amount of histort you must choose to become either a marxist or a liar.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/10/2026

NEW: If you could pick one Republican to lose in November, who would it be? The case for Susan Collins: www.thebulwark.com/p/susan-coll...

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Susan Collins Is the Living Worst

The most despicable Republican is actually the “reasonable” Republican.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i should take this time to remind you: superman was ALWAYS woke. from issue one, nearly 100 years ago. ALWAYS. WOKE. bsky.app/profile/owil...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

with the skydance acquisition, maga now owns superman (and batman, and wonder woman, and the flash and all of the dcu)

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Fozzy Bear's Facepalm Moment

ALT: Fozzy Bear's Facepalm Moment

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OpenAI just blooped hundreds of proofs and counterexamples to open problems: github.com/openai/math/... Boggling.

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math/preprints at main · openai/math

Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)

By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you read the study about what's happening to families? The full stream of The Tim Heidecker Podcast gets real about children. Watch now: bit.ly/4rOMpxc

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you know one thing about me consider making it this: I trust a Black woman named Pontheolla Abernathy with my life, you hear me? That’s a woman who could lead me anywhere. (I have to visit this Inn.) www.southernliving.com/clevedale-hi...

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This 113-Year-Old Inn Is A South Carolina Treasure—And So Is The Couple Who Runs It

What do you get when you add 38 years of marriage, a former broadcaster, a former priest, a 440-acre property, a 113-year old inn, and one life-changing road trip? Paul and Pontheolla Abernathy, that’...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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M💀ther B💀nes @l1vy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know there's a right lean in a lot of survivalist type groups and forums, but there does not have to be. Anybody who grew up poor and/or marginalized already has a solid survivalist foundation. Without fancy specialized purchases. youtu.be/L9WH51Wn3PQ