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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
11 very good to excellent debut fantasies in this thread that I read as part of my 3rd & final year as a Crawford Award judge (no necessary relationship with what ends up on the shortlist - still more to read, and other judges don't necessarily have the same tastes).
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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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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Giving in to car brain never improves anything, volume MMCCXXII
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But we know more than enough to say this: We, the people of NYC refuse to accept authoritarianism at our doorsteps. We will always defend the humanity of our immigrant neighbors. ICE's operations in New York City — and everywhere else — must come to a permanent end. #AbolishICE #ICEOutNow
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I enjoyed Emily St. John Mandel's new novel, Exit Party. She deploys her excellent world building skills and complex characters to reflect on what we might become in different circumstances, which might have felt tired in other hands. The common thread of state brutality provides urgency and gravity
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Plume rouillée @plumerouille.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know I have a few international followers, and I'd like you to know what's currently happening in France High-school children are protestinf fir better studiying conditions : enough teacher, enough table and chair, fonctionning toilets, toilets paper, heating in winter. Really, basics needs.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Froggle is now Bryan got me, but wombi really captured the affect for me www.instagram.com/reel/Dba3VMi...
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theharrisalterman on Instagram: "Come to our fake tech art pop-up Aug 8th. Link in bio.View all 813 comments"
Come to our fake tech art pop-up Aug 8th. Link in bio.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 30/09/2026
stop vibe coding your core products.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 29/09/2026
absolutely fucking incredible news for public health in canada that a safer supply organization successfully fought the constitutionality of drug possession trafficking laws for not providing any legal way to operate. selfless life-saving work that is actually being identified and respected as such.
But in her judgment on their constitutional challenge on Tuesday, Murray concluded that a non-medicalized safer supply program is urgently needed to save lives.

And with no legal source of drugs available for such a program, and no legal "safety valves" in the CDSA that would support setting one up, she found such a program "is legally and practically incapable of being exempted."

She said part of the CDSA "unjustifiably infringes" on two parts of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and deprives DULF members the "right to life and security of the person."

She gave Parliament six months to find a way to allow for a "pathway to non-medicalized safer supply."
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A well deployed, "Dude." is often enough
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his musicked vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and fucking harsh
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emily lipstein @emilylip.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
rainy sunday on bedford avenue. the sukkah setup on the sidewalk means that NYPD made a temporary sidewalk in the bike lane ... so the "bike lane" is now in the median.... being blocked by the traffic cops. this can't be the situation for the next week+ @mayor.nyc.gov
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Hadestown streaming performance is moving. I would love to see it serve as a clarion call to building a better future through solidarity, win or lose, sing it again
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Can't wait to tell my kids that we're all going to see a documentary about concrete
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
You can read all the details in my write-up, which also shows exactly where in this public dataset you can find all of this micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
study: updated Covid vaccines provide a large reduction in the risk of infection, severe illness, and hospitalization, particularly for pregnant women and young children jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reading about all these biglaw firms going all in on AI and thinking about all the litigation over how many hours can be billed for AI-generated documents and the ensuing malpractice cases
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hi friends: I haven't written an article in three months. Here's why, and how my experience as a caregiver to a person I love with a disabling, terminal illness upended most of what I think about car dependency and transportation reform.
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Where I've Been — Streetsblog USA
How becoming a caregiver for a person with terminal illness changed the way I think about transportation reform.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 12/09/2026
Becoming a dad inspired Greenpointer Chris Roberti to push for street changes to make the area around his home and his kids' school safer.
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OPINION: A Brooklyn Dad Reflects on Five Years of Safe Streets Advocacy - Streetsblog New York City
Becoming a dad inspired Greenpointer Chris Roberti to push for street changes to make the area around his home and his kids' school safer.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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Kelly Clancy @kellyclancy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm a mother of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: here's what this guy needs to know about parenting with AI: --bring your kids to a bookstore or a library instead of letting ChatGPT write stories for them; --kids are being coached to die by suicide by these bots;
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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This thread raises great points. I will add that the tell in the screenshot exchange is the scope shift-- if you don't find AI useful, you hate software engineering-- which ignores how it's harming other professions with actual ethical obligations to their clients and society
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
1. The Main Switch This is the main setting Google shows you, but it's not the only one. Gmail (Desktop): ⚙️ Settings → See all settings → Smart features and personalization → Uncheck "Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet" → Save Changes.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Another London dispatch: If any of you know any Broadway producers or investors, I am begging you to convince them to transfer "My Neighbor Totoro" to NYC when it closes in London in January. It is one of most enchanting, moving, heartwarming shows I've seen & I want audiences here to experience it🙏
Photo from London production of My Neighbor Totoro, with Satsuke & Totoro standing in the rain
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Probably just my age demographic, but I feel like everything going completely off the rails coincided with the marketing of game shows as "reality tv"
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
So in English we mainly "instill" fear, hope, or eye drops, right
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I loved this, and it's such a taut little entry that I don't want to ruin it with my dumb musings. @vajra.me doesn't miss
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
limiting our rhetoric (and imaginations!) to what most voters want *in the moment* would prevent any positive change from happening
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wish I were surprised to learn that UPS not only left a door tag saying they "missed me" when I was home, but that they also did not deliver it to the pickup location on the slip, but everything sucks and is a scam, so why wouldn't that be the case
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I should be less surprised at how flamboyantly and consistently Randi Weingarten has failed the challenges of leading one of the teachers' union in the US in age of gAI. Deeply uncritical, incredibly short-sighted, but most of all, pusillanimous.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My husband once rode around looking for our kid's bike, found the guy, and convinced him to give it back. Only YOU etc etc (because the cops laugh if you report a stolen bike)
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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the rental housing market.” citylimits.org/opinion-rent...
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Opinion: Rent Stabilization Isn't Means Tested—And It Shouldn't Be - City Limits
"This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the re...
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A Sontaran in parthenogenesis
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Our kids love both these songs, so after I shared the quote post with @jinglesboiler.bsky.social, he made a mashup of "Washington" by @bradneely.bsky.social and "Get Him Back" as performed by Olivia: theinfringements.bandcamp.com/track/georgi... Hope you like it, @kellylink.bsky.social!
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Georgie Got Back, by The Infringements
track by The Infringements
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"A great place to start" - Les Claypool
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My picky eater also loves pesto! I thought this was a hard earned compliment to my cooking (that child would sooner die than intentionally compliment me). We toss in some frozen peas at the end since that is an approved veg and it goes surprisingly well with the pesto. Every safe food is a win.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026
At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
Mayor Mamdani holds up bananas with a 30% off sticker on them. Shelves of produce and canned goods, all with 30% off stickers on them. New Yorkers clap at the press conference announcing the 30% discount for municipal grocery stores.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Totally got me, but I understood that this was not that story (no matter how much we would all LOVE to read about the Ooioiaa's water bureaucrats and hydrologists bumping heads)
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pigly.bsky.social @pigly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Google reset my phone's time zone, affecting my alarms and emails and chats. It won't budge, even after resetting my phone's clock and turning on location services and making sure I have the correct time zone selected. Apparently this was happening to others a few months ago, too, but no word on why
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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 22/07/2026
"Advocates said the deaths were unacceptable, and called on the city to act quickly to improve pedestrian safety." "All three incidents occurred on roads designated as Vision Zero Priority Corridors due to high rates of pedestrian fatalities" www.brooklynpaper.com/drivers-kill...
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Drivers kill three Brooklyn pedestrians over the course of two days • Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn drivers killed three pedestrians in separate crashes over the course of just two days last week, in the midst of a historically-safe year for traffic
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 17/07/2026
What drivers see when you don't wear high-vis vs. what drivers see when you do wear high-vis, illustrated with the same photo of a driver gazing at a cell phone.
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