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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately they think all poor people are subhuman. Their idea of government exists to make the rich richer. Thanks Reagan.

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PencilSketchy @brainspore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you don't think governments exist for the welfare of the people then with all due respect what the fuck do you think they ARE for and why would we have any reason to support them?

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 23h

"Not an indie miracle, but an industry ecosystem" VOMIT VOMIT VOMIT I hate that LLMs have tainted this phrasing so hard. It's so vile But yes, aside from disgust at the graphic: a good cringe at this person's ignorance to marketing and collaboration between firms 💀

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What a pathetic and nasty way of wringing more money out of poor people, to use data surveillance to obfuscate and manipulate grocery prices. Truly the death throes of a failed system that can no longer feign infinite growth. They will steal and steal until we stop them. Build a guillotine today!

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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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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I can understand being apathetic, as is a side effect of having my life systematically strangled away from me, but I still WANT to spend each day creating! Music, writing, exploring nature, being with friends... How sad you must be to settle for a sycophantic bot. A lonely world of no truths

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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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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" by Adam Neely being the aforementioned video

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Did you see that video on AI music? Its users cannot cite other "AI creators" as inspirations, don't listen to other "AI music" besides that they beckoned themselves, and even narrow their music listening to only their own slop Individualism/isolationism is a strange poison

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am also seeking an iPod soon. Probably one with the circle scroll, if the storage is decent

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Brie @briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meme of two muscular individuals clasping hands, one side reads "Sailors using celestial navigation" and the other reads "Game AI programmers" and above their clasped hands reads "Pathfinding via A Star"

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 07/10/2026

btw since i get this question a lot: buying on itch means we get almost 150% as much money from your purchase compared to buying on steam

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So she's the same archetype as Alphys /hj

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Jordan Mychal Lockhart (Lemos) @extrajordanary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There could be zero new media made for the rest of my life and I STILL wouldn't be able to read every book, watch every movie, listen to every song, watch every youtube video, and play every game that I'd want to. So why in the world would I ever need to engage with AI content?

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With only two words I can encourage conglomerates to split into smaller pieces: TAX BRACKETS

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can we start using "bot" as a derogative for these soulless folk? Music is the most soulful thing we do. A good performance can evoke sublime, raising every hair on your body. To glaze on algorithmic sound-vomit, especially as a replacement to real music, is profoundly anti-human. Fuckin bots -_-

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I dunno if any legislators follow me on here, but if you do: Can we please have some laws forbidding this? With teeth? Penalties that hurt the people who ignore them?

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lightweight maths with just a few vectors to get decent obstacle avoidance and pursuit behaviors without de facto pathfinding

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You should look into the basic steering algorithms written by Craig Reynolds in "Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters" Perhaps a secondary source would be nicer to digest, but it's a bit hard to sift through LLM vomit in search engines now 😰

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Haven't used my programmer brain in a bit but I did study NPC behaviors... Can you describe more how your navigation works and what the problem is?

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 05/10/2026

A simple concept from Kansas City is sweeping the country. Planting fruit trees on vacant lots and making the produce free to anyone has cascading positive effects for the community.

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A Kansas City nonprofit turned vacant lots into free fruit orchards. It's branched out nationwide

A simple concept from Kansas City is sweeping the country. Planting fruit trees on vacant lots and making the produce fr

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are prior entries on sale? My friend who has been waiting for AC8 can only run it on lowest settings

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well if we're gonna start a revolution, may as well be now

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s LGBTQ+ history month and this is a reminder that the Trump administration has systematically erased trans history from NPS and government websites as part of its coordinated attack on trans rights. 🏳️‍🌈 www.historians.org/perspectives...

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Confronting the Rainbow Panic

The erasure of LGBTQ+ stories from the National Park Service and other government websites has a long history.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 TsubasaCon (Charleston, WV) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man, if only there were a way for Mamdani to be the mayor of like…every city. Could you imagine? Like a “country mayor” for the United States, or something…

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Janna Sophia 🏔️ @jannaphia.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As long as the entrenched institutions keep protecting pedophiles, *nothing* is actually done to protect children. "A hedge fund manager?" Fancy word for child molester... like that "financier" guy with that island... Shitstains with "fuck you money" are endangering your kids, not trans students

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

it is hard to overstate the terrifying, catastrophic consequences of allowing this bill (KIDS Act, bigger KOSA) to be enacted it is vvv important not just for "kids" but adults to understand that this censorship and surveillance explosion is Not Good & And Especially Not Good for Fascists to Have

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/06/2026

if I'm perfectly honest, I'm not sure any of the AI companies actually know why they're doing anything other than to exist and constantly expand into industries with no concern over whether they can actually serve them. It's a global test of how much executives know about how their companies work

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Kalia and the Fire Staff 😈 @kaliagame.com · 25/06/2026

The AI ponzi scheme so cooked they're reverting back to Metaverse and NFTs 😂

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Tim Swindle cryarsing about AI disclosure being a scarlet letter lets slip something significant here, because if AI was all that slop jockeys claim it was, then surely such a disclosure would be a mark of pride, even a selling point! Surely people would be clamouring for AI games. But they're not.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think it's fine for games not to really have economies

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So if everyone is avoiding November releases because of GTA6.. what am I supposed to buy in November 🤔? I don't buy AAA games*, so if I'm your target audience, just pretend they don't exist *Or new, bloated games I can't afford the hardware to run

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/06/2026

Today’s free newsletter is about how Silicon Valley — as exemplified by the AI bubble — has abandoned its supposed principles of rationality and meritocracy, and now more closely resembles a cargo cult desperate to recreate bygone eras of growth. www.wheresyoured.at/cargo-culture/

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Cargo Culture

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Need I remind anyone? These "AI" technologies benefit nobody (important)! They're just wealth extraction devices, optimized for plagiarism, and accountability sinks! We got along just fine without this crap for millennia

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Salem Rain 🐈‍⬛☔ @salemrain.bsky.social · 23/06/2026