iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

That looks amazing! Makes my imagination run wild. The adventures this place holds!

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From the plundering of other people's work, to defacing shared community resources like Wikipedia in order to replace them with walled gardens with paid access, to forcing everyone to invest in more cybersecurity, the latest developments in AI have been one endless attack on the Digital Commons.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h

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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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 20h

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 08/10/2026

people in 2020: DON'T GET THE SHOT. THAT'S HOW THE ELITES ARE GOING TO LURE YOU TO YOUR DEATH people in 2026: THE LIL ROBOT WHO TELLS ME I'M SMART AND SEXY PROMISED ME A LIVING WAGE AND I TRUST HIM

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/10/2026

"The Israeli government exploited the trauma, the pain, the fear of the Israelis after the October 7 massacre to change the status quo from conflict management to ethnic cleansing," says Maoz Inon, who lost his parents in the October 7 attack.

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Joel Chaim Holtzman @joelchaimholtzman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

JOB OFFER: A client reached out to me with a book cover gig I am unable to take on right now! Pays well. Post your work in the comments for the client to take a look! (I am not affiliated with this project, the client will reach out to you if they are interested)

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/10/2026

This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Would that be the P block? 🤔

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was great! I enjoy your podcast so much and every time a new episode drops it feels like my birthday!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The G7 just agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil, in exchange for the US agreeing not to ban diesel exports.⁣ ⁣ That's not a solution. That's political leaders agreeing to look like they're solving a made-up crisis. youtu.be/I8waaPcvpQA

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't need more money to live comfortably but I wish I could afford to support more creators and independent media.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The way creativity is strangled today is horrific. When the only metric that matters is "maximize profit this quarter" we get a very sad and uninspiring society.

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This! Even as an hobbyist I quickly discard assets I can't find the license for even if I once bought them and probably has the right to use them.

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reads like an absolute nightmare. Just absurd in a Kafkaesque kind of way.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I read about the White House airing campaign ads with taxpayer money, I immediately thought about an exhibition I saw last year in NYC about how Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me

anntelnaes.substack.com

Me Me Me

The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Diesel Fuel For @rawstory.com Go behind the scenes of my creative process at nickanderson.substack.com.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026

The new film "Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed" documents how the U.K. government downplayed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. "It's quite extraordinary, the level of duplicity that was going on, in order for us to keep selling Israel arms," says executive producer @bendepear.bsky.social.

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a heads up, the video is private

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As Bibi Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly this week, diplomats from 77 delegations staged a mass walkout in protest of Israel's military actions in Gaza and the West Bank. @anntelnaes.bsky.social (archives 7/25/25)

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While Bibi Netanyahu lies and divides at the UN, Mayor Mamdani is planting trees with Gazan refugees at Gracie Mansion. The contrast couldn’t be more stark.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2026

If only they could cover the other half of the Network State ideology....you know, the part about using tech wealth and influence to take control of existing governments and create parallel media/education/economic/political systems. Someone should write a book about it. Oh, wait...

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Kay Lousberg @kaylousberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yo! I've made a video covering some of the basics when it comes to setting up a 3D scene in #godotengine , it covers lighting and the world environment node. youtu.be/Vfr3n4WKsc0 #gamedev #indiedev

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Basic Environment and Lighting Setup in Godot

YouTube video by Kay Lousberg

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

NEW WRITING 👀 I finally got my shit together and wrote a little newsletter about the Spectrum of Allies which is a helpful exercise and a better theory of change than "nobody with a bad point of view can ever change their mind" Please read and use and share the links within!!!

news.chanda.science

The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries

A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work head

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

House Speaker Johnson calls an early recess to avoid a Sec. Hegseth impeachment vote, AI regulation, the Epstein files, Trump’s criminal behavior, and pretty much everything else. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/squeaker-m...

anntelnaes.substack.com

Squeaker Mike Johnson

makes a run for it

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026

We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

thehandbasket.co

Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is super cool. @zacheverson.com is a journalist following Trump’s crypto corruption. For people who are having trouble understanding how it works, Zach made a game. I love this kind of innovation for helping us understand stuff….

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sc2fool @sc2fool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

the trash talker On South Anne Street in Dublin city centre, a satirical statue of Donald Trump in a wheelie bin with a banana on his head titled 'The Trash Talker' has appeared. www.rte.ie/news/post/10...

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀

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