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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 7h
Oh, that didn't take much digging. They asked people to solve stupid fraction problems. One group got to ask AI, the other group didn't. Then they took the AI away from the AI group. Those people started fucking off. The non-AI group didn't magically know it was time to start fucking off.
For the first experiment with 354 participants, one group was tasked with solving 15 basic fraction problems without help, while another had ChatGPT open on the side to use for assistance and to even ask for the answer. The group with AI access started off more accurate than the group without it. Then, after 12 problems, researchers took away the AI tool. Almost immediately, the people in that group stopped solving questions accurately. 

A similar thing happened when they ran the experiment on a second, larger group of 667 participants. Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end.
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LV @lvonbluesky.bsky.social · 8h
#publicexecution
Ruth Bin-Ghiat: Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Amanda Carpenter: Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 15h
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h
🚨 A military-developed "heat ray" designed to inflict intense pain. Pete Hegseth's Pentagon authorized its loan to DHS for use by CBP amid Trump's ICE crackdown.
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 8h
It is believed that Hegseth is being kept in office, in part, because he refuses to rule out deploying troops to polling places or to U.S. streets if the election does not follow Trump’s wishes – not because he sees strategic advantages that others do not, or even leads brilliant military tactics.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 9h
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Police have detained scores of protesters, and authorities have cut off mobile internet services near protest sites." - Human Rights Watch www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kashmiri politicians are right to say that Modi and Shah first killed Indian democracy in Kashmir and are now killing it nationwide. "Kashmir model has been exported to Delhi. Welcome to the New Delhi, modelled on New Jammu & Kashmir." - Omar Abdullah x.com/OmarAbdullah...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dogs are precious and wonderful, and I wonder why shitler is so fucking afraid of them. (I mean, I’m confident it’s because they don’t like him after smelling the evil.)
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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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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Notice the headline and the sub leave out the ICE agent physically attacked the 72yo man and his daughter "Once Gonzalez was woken up, police say he appeared drunk and assaulted the 72-year-old. Police say the daughter tried to intervene to protect her father, and Gonzalez physically attacked her"
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What’s he gonna do, fling some ketchup at them? 🙄😅
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If Amodei really believes that, then maybe he’s mentally ill. Nah, he’s probably just a greedy bitch.
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fuck Polis for pardoning this traitor POS, and fuck her traitor attorney who needs to be disbarred.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities.
Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed.
Not any Muslim.
Trump.
A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fucking piece of fraudulent shit. He’s the one who really deserves to be denaturalized. Send him to the ICC. 🤬
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Emil Bove did something illegal?? Whaaaa- 🙄🤬
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No fucking shit, ABC. Maybe if y’all hadn’t spent the past 11 years sucking up to that POS and enabling this hell the whole frickin world is living in…🖕
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026
it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.
The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
axios.com
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The christofascists are just projection bots now.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
ms.now
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 05/10/2026
I'm thankful Minnesota has a strong commitment to local journalism bc it's vital to commit these stories to a public record broader than just 1 lawsuit. And nice of the author to make me sound more professional by not using the bit where I said ICE officers would need instructions written in crayon
On the morning of Sept. 25, Alejandro was brought to the Whipple building, given his belongings and told he was being released.

Alejandro got a few steps farther than Ivan would. He made it outside the building’s front doors.

That’s where plain clothes immigration agents were waiting to handcuff him.

“One of the agents translated for me, saying just like they could release me, they could arrest me again,” Alejandro said in Spanish.

“It's bullshit,” Suitor said. “We won the case.”
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Dems takeover in January, ICE must be held accountable. Vote Blue. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202... #Voices4victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
oregonlive.com
ICE initiates immigration enforcement surge in sanctuary cities. Could Portland be among its targets?
Immigration arrests in Oregon have been on the rise since the spring.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All by himself Sen Mike Lee killed a bill to stop Trump from razing other President’s memorials Mike Lee has no morals left, only blind ambition to be appointed to SCOTUS
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The first thing that popped into my head was Honduras, for the nonexistent caravans they’re not sending. 🙄
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fucking wonderful, what innocent party are we going to attack next? 🤬
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🖕🖕🖕
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A TRULY INTELLIGENT SPECIES WOULDN'T CONTAMINATE ITS OWN DRINKING WATER, DESTROY ITS TOPSOIL, DRIVE WILDLIFE INTO DECLINE, AND CREATE CHRONIC DISEASE THROUGH THE VERY FOOD SYSTEM MEANT TO SUSTAIN IT.
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good day to remind people that when Nate Hochman was too Nazi for DeSantis, Sen. Schmitt picked him up.
Nazi bum. Now at the State Department, being even worse.
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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#WETHEPEOPLE #PERSIST #Washington NO WAR. HANDS OFF IRAN Lynnwood Washington Saturdays Apr 25 through Oct 31 12 – 2pm PDT Tesla Lynnwood 17731 Pacific Hwy Lynnwood, WA 98037 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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NO WAR. NO KINGS: Lynnwood! · Mobilize
THEY WANT US SILENT. WE'RE DEFIANT. Join us in protesting this war and demanding justice for ICE victims. We continue to fight to protest our democracy from Trump and his oligarchs. See you Saturd...
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Headshots of the Cornell 7 RAPISTS:

Matthew Ingalls 
Diego Sarabia
Winston Lee
Scott Kretzschmar
Scott Norris
Gillio Lopes
Jonathan Newell
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge brought by the Democratic National Committee that could determine if state judges can extend polling hours after election-day disruptions threaten voting access. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear case on expanded voting hours during Election Day disruptions
The DNC is asking the justices to clarify whether Wisconsin courts can extend voting hours when election-day problems threaten voters’ constitutional right to vote.
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Mark Cathcart @markcathcart.com · 28/09/2026
Think twice about installing Meta's Muse app on your system. Once you've done that, think twice more and don't. There is absolutely no evidence they are trustworthy. In 2016 Meta, aka Facebook leaked enough data to help Russia elect Donald Trump. It wasn't a secret or a bug but by design. We knew!
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flash-steel.bsky.social @flash-steel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From the company that brought you: 1. Illegal SCL/Cambridge Analytica data harvesting 2. Messenger harvesting messages, phone location and browsing 3. Meta Pixel tracking you across 7M websites 4. Pervert Glasses Comes, one more app to harvest messages for tracking/targeted ads/AI training data
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Tangentially, the military has made a service-wide push into using personal phones as work devices, meaning Meta is no doubt ingesting sensitive if not classified/secret data. And I’d be curious what this might mean for Signal.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Alright we gotta pour money into the Ohio Supreme Court races Incumbent Jennifer Brunner is the last remaining Democrat on the court secure.actblue.com/donate/jenni... Dem Marilyn Zayas is running for the other seat currently GOP held secure.actblue.com/donate/maril...
secure.actblue.com
Donate to People for Justice Jennifer Brunner
Show your support with a contribution.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WTF, it’s 2026 and asshole coaches are still pulling this shit?! 🤬 Hydration isn’t a fucking treat!
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A simple truth to never forget: REPUBLICANS KILL
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
from estamosunidosnj: On 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct and he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout this, Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration. #ICEoutofNJ
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Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly 5 Million Acres of Oregon National Forests Could Lose Key Protections. Deadline Wednesday. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/nearly-5-m...
morethanjustparks.substack.com
Nearly 5 Million Acres of Oregon National Forests Could Lose Key Protections. Deadline Wednesday.
More logging. Fewer protections for big trees, roadless country and wildlife. Another sweeping change to America’s public lands is moving fast.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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