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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 8h

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Noah(mal guy) @nanadouken.bsky.social · 17h

walkies?

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mcc @dryad.technology · 18h

Hey when exactly does the phrase "secret police" start being appropriate. Just checking

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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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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 08/10/2026

I feel like it’s hard to express to people who got online after a certain era that culture wasn’t this conservative and censorious once upon a time. I mean, modern social media platforms are harsher on a lot of content than broadcast TV and magazines used to be.

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Kaliga @kaliga.charmandie.xyz · 08/10/2026

Have you met her? The hair trendsetter? #Arknights

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Isn't it funny how all the things required to keep the net in a functional state also just so happen to be bad for kids? Torrents, online spaces, the internet archive. All bad for kids! What are the odds right?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Cf. "[They] insist on ... the freedom to ask uncomfortable & politically incorrect questions ... but they are unwilling to grant us the same freedom if we are interested in using it to ask questions about what the fuck is wrong with them." -Ivy & George 2022 doi.org/10.1002/9781...

To put things bluntly, transphobic philosophers and their enablers insist on the importance of the freedom to ask uncomfortable and politically incorrect questions without any sort of accountability and proceed to use that freedom to ask loaded, propagandistic questions full of derogatory insinuations about us as trans people, but they are unwilling to grant us the same freedom if we are interested in using it to ask questions about what the fuck is wrong with them.

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Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

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HIGH LORD FALCON, OLIVKA RHO @livvywivvyy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"i would die for you, i would kill for you" okay but would you go to the store for me. would you goto the. store ive just had a really long day and theres nothing in the fridge. would you go buy ingredients and. and cook for me and would you get snacks too. also i need you to do the dishes

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026

going for a second hugo nom by writing a science fiction story called "what if someone just made a social media website where people could talk to each other in an environment where it was generally accepted consensus that genocide and fascism are intolerably bad things actually"

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

CSP being pressed to take even just /kissing/ off their asset store and FA being told that plus sized characters are considered adult should be a giant waving red flag to folks. Sex workers have /always/ been right to say these policies never stop with 1 type of content. They always wanna ban more.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Magyar government understands if they let up then Fidesz and Orban will regroup like the Brasilian Far Right did and can come right back in. So they have to move with intense endless purpose to cut out the cancer of Orban. Because five years is not much time to reverse it all & clock’s ticking.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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Guy, Katsu @guykatsu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He's just like me. For real for real

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

These new OOONA subs are not as catastrophically bad as the fully Netflix-compatible subs Crunchyroll was serving to users a year ago, but they still represent a significant downgrade in especially typesetting quality. Numpad notation positioning only, with no colors used. Plus issues like this too.

Screenshot from Vertex Force anime episode 1, showing a line of dialogue on top, with two overlapping lines of sign translation in the middle of the screen that are impossible to read properly because they overlap

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gonna be honest, gang. The moment you convince people you can make a machine who is conscious and capable of suffering, that is the moment you should be introduced to John Brown's blade for thinking you can sell that person.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026

They want to blur the line between what the "models" are capable of and what the software around the models is doing; they want to anthropomorphize the models as much as possible; they want to promote the idea that "the model" is wholly or mostly responsible for the system's output.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026

The problem is that for the user of chatGPT, there's no distinction between "oh the model is smart enough to do math now" and "oh they programmed in a hook to call a calculator." The goal of every AI company is to emit propaganda about AI "capabilities," so they're not clearing up this confusion.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026

One toy example of this is arithmetic. LLMs categorically can't really do arithmetic, there's just no way to derive a fact like `59487 / 251 = 237` from a language model. But of course, chatbots like chatGPT have multiple tools to address that by calling a conventional calculator.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 03/10/2026

Using LLM-based products like chatGPT doesn't make you "understand AI" any more than smoking crack improves your knowledge of pharmacology. The technology is inherently misleading and self-propagandizing, it's a pump for exploiting user bias.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

calmatters.org

Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?

California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026

firefox updated and no one in software development understands how rounded corners are supposed to work anymore

completely mismatched rounded corner radii

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026

going to about:config and searching nova is the easy way of fixing this mess

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HEEM://trails_from_zero @heem.sh · 02/10/2026

steam sengoku with no patch is so fucking funny. what if rance just really wanted to kiss girls

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/10/2026

Anyway, most conversations about AI are poisoned by the fact we all use the word "AI" to describe things that aren't AI. But if we're splitting up the debate and now we get to call LLMs whatever we want, I'd like to suggest "unintelligence". I'd sound like a doofus. But so does everyone else now

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/10/2026

A microcosm - America tells you a lie. - The Republicans suddenly come forward with an even worse, more dangerous, but embarrassing & goofy, new lie - The Democrats hold a proud, patriotic press conference saying that they are going to give you the old, dignified lie back - But it's still a lie.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

Typing is quicker than talking, reading is quicker than listening, and buttons - instead of natural language - are precise

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And if that happens, I think the Republic is over. Either this was an illegitimate presidency where everything must be undone, or it was a legitimate one with a guy democrats don’t like, and if it’s the second, if No Rules Fascism is now standard operating procedure, we’re done.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.

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