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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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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this… it’s the little things

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He has lots of financial facts and colorful metaphors, basically nothing about LLMs make much sense due to everyone drinking the koolaid and perpetuating the greed. Anyway here you go: www.wheresyoured.at

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Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly it’s not conspiratorial thinking. LLMs can’t internalize what a fact is, so they’ll never actually be smart. It’s been proven they hallucinate by nature and this can’t be fixed, so it will always be a hack that needs human supervision. You should read Ed Zitron’s articles about it

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happened to me seeing a bird that ended up being called the “go away” bird, haha

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, it’s kind of a dumb blessing in disguise, something to distinguish actual AI from LLMs

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not only is this tool a lie, it’s just sensational advertising. LLMs can’t not hallucinate, so it won’t even work. Besides the fact these AI aren’t really going rogue. They’re part of systems meant to try to break in to test security, so of course they’ll try to do that.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the 24.42 is just killing me after that little saying lmao

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Those are the worst. You can engineer some so they think they are always locked when they aren’t, so you’re never actually locked out, but it’s just kind of a pain

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wiccanery - a short comic about a witch and a vampire.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well definitely do it if it’s helping you make sense of it!

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think they would get lost in a refactor as well. Might be ok solo developing but would be hard for someone else to read on a smaller screen. I also rarely leave code comments unless the code is pretty confusing or dense

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why are they on the end of the code lines and not separate lines 😭

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.

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USPS rush to implement Trump order could cause ‘catastrophic failure’ of mail voting, whistleblower claims

A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms,…

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think the worst I experienced was when the representative asked me if I had a friend or relative to pass the service onto?? No, I’m moving and the new place doesn’t have your service! In what world am I passing my service along?! Just get rid of it! Blew my mind.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why can’t you just be a sane, understandable PNG???

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is definitely just AI slop he’s reposting lmao

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seriously, what the hell is this? Who wants the details in editing your store taken away from you? Might as well go back to like Craigslist minimalism at that rate.

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Katav 🐺 g(r)ay wolf 🐏 bighorn(y) ram @katav.gay · 26/08/2026

everyone will remember Tim Curry for Rocky Horror, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island, etc., but we can't forget his most important cultural contribution

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Fawn (from Fawn) @fawn.dog · 26/08/2026

Daily Affirmations #scraps #aob

digital sketch of Bizkit, Peaches, and Xan holding hands with the text IT WILL HAPPEN. Bizkit is grimacing with a smile, Peaches is peaceful, and Xan looks stunned

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sure thing, happens to the best of us! Ai ruins everything

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Luckily the trend for sitcoms seems to be going without laugh tracks these days

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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It is BECAUSE I understand how AI and LLMs work, intimately, that I have no interest in using them. Are there valid uses for LLM-adjacent technologies? Yes, but LLMs themselves are clearly a technological dead-end tech is trying to shove down our throats to recoup its oversized investment.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Definitely one of those cases of someone who leans more into idiot than rich. Doesn’t know when to stop talking. No one cares, lol

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

With the lazy gbt everyone ends up saying too, lol.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

With these summers, that’s fair

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Baron Blobert Von Mucinex the 4th @juda1313.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For todays shot of art, Where's My Breakfast II, Daniel Arthur, oil on panel, 2026

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Marialana Kinter @marialanakinter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Vote on or by August 18th! As a former mechanic, nuclear reactor supervisor, and the only working-class candidate in this race, I’ll keep fighting for working families. Let’s put working people first.

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Julia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i love this game! 🥰🥰

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Raptor @raptornx01.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Unlock My Fucking Anime"

norman rockwell's freedom of speech painting of a man standing up in a town hall meeting with the people around him looking up at him, but he's been edited in vegas to be wearing a hentai jacket.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The combat gets dull after awhile (remedy’s weakness, I think they realized that for Alan wake 2) but I love everything else about the game! Luckily they have a lot of accessibility options for the combat

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Orlan-BOO-Fox @orlandofox.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the calm before the storm #zoobe #zoobebunny

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Speaks to how much of a trash publication the New York post is

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It’s true. It’s being pushed as bleeding edge, but it’s first draft technology at best. The worst part is how it actually knows nothing, contradicting its name

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Pacific Penguin @pacificpenguin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yeah… this is over moderated and anti user.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/05/2026

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

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