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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about how the winner of another major literary prize appears to be AI and why we need to do something about all this. 😢

theatlantic.com

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 19h

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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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 9h

There are lots of reasons for wealth taxes, but the number one reason is that extreme wealth turns everyone who has it into a miserable, stupid, paranoid asshole, the words kind of person to have unaccountable power!

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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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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10h

He's the epitome of a child's idea of what being strong is. The ultimate rejection of bed time.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You'll never convince me the reason the consultants and donors told Walz to cut it out with the "weird" stuff wasn't because they themselves felt attacked.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Several LRTs: the Nazis always want a mom they can fuck

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Not beating the allegations, ever. bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Meta’s A.I. leaders also incorporated OpenClaw into their own lives. Mr. Friedman hooked his agent up to cameras in his house, where it would instruct him to do things like drink water to stay hydrated.
“It sent me a snapshot frame of me drinking a bottle of water and said, ‘Good job,’” Mr. Friedman said at a recent tech conference.
In another instance, while talking to his agent about ways to get better sleep, OpenClaw took over Mr. Friedman’s self-driving Tesla and redirected him to a grocery store to pick up magnesium pills. At Meta’s annual developer conference last month, Mr. Zuckerberg said he had connected his agent to cameras in his martial arts gym so that it could critique his fighting form.
Yet there were safety concerns. Agents could sometimes go rogue or take over software apps. In February, one agent took over the work computer of a Meta safety researcher, deleting her emails uncontrollably.
“I couldn’t stop it from my phone,” Summer Yue, the researcher, wrote on social media. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.”

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The White Woman is a little trickier. But I think the key point is that, despite being "the good one", she is just as objectified. In fact being objectified is what makes her the good one. The way I put it is that the ideal woman for these men is one who's life is *entirely oriented* towards them.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay so Male Fantasies is a 1977 book written by Klaus Theweleit, a sociologist who grew up in post-war Germany grappling with the male culture of his parents and grandparents, essentially, and how it led to the Freikorps and eventually the Nazis.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

car goes rogue after car maker puts cinderblock on gas pedal and throws it into drive

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everyripple.bsky.social @everyripple.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Carney is wrong. Anti-Zionism not the cause of anti-semitism. Zionism is the cause of anti-semitism. Netanyahu is the world's most powerful anti-semite, spreading the false assertion that all Jewish people are Zionists. Zionism is a philosophy of invasion. ca.news.yahoo.com/ottawa-shift...

ca.news.yahoo.com

Ottawa is shifting its stance on 'anti-Zionism' — and the reactions so far are mixed

OTTAWA — The federal government has identified "anti-Zionism" as a driver of anti-Jewish hate — a major policy shift that has prompted a range of reactions.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The essence of conservatism

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the reason the media doesn't cover this for what it clearly is is because they like Trump and they want to help him rule us. Especially as we approach an election that could be a generational wipeout for Rs they will double down on attempting to help him

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anthropic did that old IKEA commercial to themselves, and they're making it our problem.

youtu.be

IKEA - Lamp (2002, USA)

YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Give it a listen, you'll be amazed at what Masato Nakamura could do with one of these

One of those spring door stoppers that go bowwoiyoiyoiyoing when you flick them

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only acceptable way for a politician to talk about a terrorist attack is "crazy people did this to us for no reason. There's nothing we could have possibly done to prevent it, but now we're allowed to do anything to anyone we want." /s

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't she married to an artist?

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bread is inflalion too sir 🍞🤝🚗

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Left in my earbuds, with "Extreme Focus Binaural Beats for Work and Study" playing, when I went to the bathroom and accidentally read a shampoo bottle for 20 minutes

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every job will only require 3 days a week, but you'll need 4 of them to make rent (and none offer benefits)

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gears of War: E-Day is the latest game to become an unwilling participant in a culture war keeping people distracted and putting revenue in the pockets of rage baiters! The voluntary insomnia that these rage beaters display is one of the main ways this war persists.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everyone loves uncurled tie Noel, but it comes at the cost of YouTube rabbit hole radicalization Rona

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Elrond (Labelled THE ONION in white impact font): cast it into the fire! Destroy it! Isildur (labelled SHAI GILGEOUS-ALEXANDER in the same fashion) holding the One Ring (labelled FLOPPING): no 😈

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not the only thing in life, and I don't judge anyone for not doing it, but raising the next generation is the closest thing we have to a purpose, as a species. Or at least it's closer than making B2B SaaS products ever will be.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't think you need to have kids to be happy, but if you do have kids you need to at least pretend raising them is your greatest joy and privilege

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*tearing up, proud* "just like their old man"

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know "socialism is whatever I don't like" is literally what most anti communists believe, but I don't think you're just supposed to say it out loud. At least, if you care about convincing anyone who doesn't already agree with you.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm old enough to remember when anyone hating W Bush and being pro drug legalization and anti war was easy to mistake for being a leftist.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

[bleary, drawling] "In my eyes/indisposed" [suddenly too zesty] "in DISGUISES NO ONE KNOWS"

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Work is great, it just sucks when you have to do it at a job

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The tech bros want a world where nobody works, but everyone still needs a job

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You see, it's only "how are you gonna pay for that?!" when its giving Americans healthcare. When it's a supplemental Dept of War appropriations bill to spend billions to keep our sailors in The Strait of Hormuz in order to keep crude prices down before the midterms, thats just Supporting The Troops

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is this the first time a majority of the characters in a strip like Noel?

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You can buy a huge media conglomerate with money you don't have using leveraged debt you'll never pay off and then immediately start firing its workers, but people will still say that capitalism is compatible with democracy and is capable of "reform" or "regulation"

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TWF your very niche historical specialty shows up in the news in the worst damn way

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Privatize the clowns, socialize the circus smh

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or it's just regular-style "owning the libs"

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The naive monarchism of personalist dictators. If your regime is doing destructive, unpopular things to consolidate power and hurt your enemies, you need a way to deflect the anger from dear leader.

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jeff @reyturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was reading Dragonlance and Battletech novels when I was 10, and if you're my age you know that is absolutely not a flex. It used to be, what made a book "YA" was that it was about any wizard at all, because books for adults were about lawyers and spies and people getting divorced.

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