iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 20h

Well this is fucking terrible

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 23h

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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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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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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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Subject of the rare political cartoon that's a banger 100 years hence

Anthony Comstock dragging a woman in front of a judge and saying "Your Honor, this woman gave birth to a naked child!"

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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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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

I joined the Dressmaker Discord and holy snacks—people are super creative.

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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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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

republicans wrote us off long ago. you dont see republicans trying to win over clinton/obama/biden/kerry voters. and its more of an uphill climb for them. if dems spent 1/3 as much time cultivating their base as they do kissing the feet of republicans hoping theyll change, the party wouldnt lose

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

People always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share

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

Just a reminder that no matter how well Democrats do they should get rid of this guy

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The president promised to conduct a whirlwind tour for the 32 days before the midterms, even a long haul to Alaska, and I for one can't wait to see how his fragile 80-year-old body holds up from the strain.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 07/10/2026

He has a leg brace because he shook too many hands.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Around me in Central Ohio, we've been told that large corporate data centers are built on "low quality" land but around here, that "low quality" land is habitat for my beloved Grasshopper Sparrows, a species that has already declined 90%+ in the state making some stickers about that

Digital drawing of a small beige sparrow, which I made in Krita. She is sitting atop some blocky green word art that reads "Habitats >>> data centers"

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 07/10/2026

It's not foolproof and it obviously doesn't work for everything, but one of the last ways you can exercise anything resembling choice under capitalism is to buy used. Every used sale is a sale denied to the originating company. It's why video game publishers are trying to get rid of physical media.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026

One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This MFer appointed the past *two* Fed chairs. He’s about a month away from claiming Biden started the war in Iran.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

It's a rape-ocracy from the top down

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

energy prices got me googling "lowest indoor temperature safe for house"

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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 06/10/2026

I mean this earnestly and politely: what did they think was going to happen???

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted by this typo in the hiring questionnaire mandated by the state of Texas that makes the final response look like a question felt like it captured my exasperation at the sentiment of the entire form

Form with a question that reads "Do you currently or have you in the past participated (whether on a paid or unpaid basis) in any programs sponsored by a foreign (non-US) government, military, intelligence agency, or police entity?" The options are "Yes, I am currently participating," "Yes, I have previously participated," and "No, I have never participated in any programs sponsored by a foreign (non-US) government, military, intelligence agency, or police entity?"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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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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Philip K. Shtick @ericsbest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember visiting friends in other cities and understanding that their bars might close 2am, but being absolutely flabbergasted that their public transportation also shut down around that time

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

Andrea Bell’s agency has handed developers more than $1.4 billion for rent-restricted apartments over the last five years. She failed to disclose that her husband works for a company that consults on these projects, despite a law requiring her to do so.

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Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests

Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So you make him and the gop kill it. Pass good stuff that people want and make it explicit that the only thing standing between us and paradise is the gop

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

of COURSE newsom is pro pervert glasses lol like please be less predictable sir

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

last night at dinner we were talking about how much tracey sucks and the server overheard and was like are you talking about michael tracey? that guy fucking sucks, and it was very satisfying

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So grateful I get to include this comic in my book as a way of saying thanks ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The whole thing is a real treat but this bit, especially the highlighted portion, put a huge smile on my face

Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. “Sometimes people would just straight up stop talking to me,” he says.

Recently, Gary’s buddies requested he not mention Palantir on their nights out together so as to not tank the whole group’s chances of getting laid. “I get nervous now. I don’t bring it up,” he says. (Gary, along with the other daters in this piece, have been given pseudonyms to protect against professional, if not romantic, repercussions.)

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 02/10/2026

The thundering lack of awareness. My gob, it is smacked.

Engaged in a flirtatious conversation at a bar in Manhattan, 23-year-old Gary stood with a Guinness in hand as he explained to a woman why he took an engineering job at Palantir, the data analytics company cofounded by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. Raking in a $250,000 salary would allow him to help pay off his parents’ mounting medical bills, he explained.
Gary wasn’t met with sympathy. Medical debt, the woman told him, was “not an excuse to work somewhere like that.” She was referring, of course, to Palantir’s controversial work with governments, including the US and Israel, which use the company’s surveillance tools for law enforcement and military operations.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this doesn’t actually make any sense

The Kennedy Center has held used Steinway piano sales in the past, so AlterNet reached out to Jenny at Steinway in Washington D.C. to ask if the sale was happening again this year. She explained that it would not, as the Kennedy Center had closed.
She said the shop owner intends to retire and close, so they're selling all their pianos at a heavy discount. With the Kennedy Center closed, the shop is also moving all the Steinways to offer for sale. AlterNet asked why the Kennedy Center would need to sell everything, and she made it clear that it was because it was "closed." She
referred all other questions to the Kennedy Center.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just generally the story of the last 5 years is Revenge of The Bosses, including Trump's win in 2024

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 29/07/2026

i worked for more than one client on trying to draft RTO policies that were intended to ease workers back into it and prioritize health, flexibility, and manager discretion only to see their senior leaders trash the plan and adopt the stick approach

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then it should be used very specifically for specific jobs, with strict guardrails, and not propping up our entire economy, and being forced into everything. The same way I don’t need to know how to use, say, software for dental offices, or a forklift, most people don’t need AI.

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Tara @taradeenihan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IF AND ONLY IF anybody wants to help cover the costs, I do have Venmo. I don’t feel right doing a GFM. It even feels weird doing this. 😬 venmo.com/u/Tara-Deeni...

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Tara Deenihan | @Tara-Deenihan

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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