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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10h

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 5h

Which labor unions are doing great work to both BLOCK fascist + oligarchic consolidation and BUILD multiracial democratic movement? @stephluce.bsky.social shares lessons from— • @nationalnurses.bsky.social • @neatoday.bsky.social • Philadelphia CLC + UNITE HERE Local 274 • May Day Strong coalition

convergencemag.com

Unions Step Up to Meet the Moment

Labor unions, as individual organizations and in coalitions like May Day Strong, are mobilizing to defend democracy this fall.

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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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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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BP are technically first responders, but as we can see here and we have seen countless times through the years, they do not respond to help people who they don’t think need help. Because of international cell phone agreements, it can also be very hard to call 911 in remote border areas.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/10/2026

No child should need a lawsuit to get out of government custody. Right now habeas petitions have helped some kids get home, and I talked with Acacia and the National Center for Youth Law about how they work. austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-chil…

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A national election, that of Brazil, which will affect the 8.3 billion people who inhabit this world. The Amazon, according to scientific evidence, is close to reaching a point of no return. Returning to the deforestation levels of 2022 (Bolsonaro) would be the final blow" x.com/ActisAndres/...

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Fred Maynard @fredmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the magic bullet explanations of the global right wing surge, from "austerity" to "immigration" to "woke", fail to cope with the fact this is happening in Japan, Brazil, South Korea, and India. "It's The Phones" remains, alas, undefeated.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it's the 260 year anniversary of the time angry rioters filled the streets with cheese wheels

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

independent.co.uk

Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate

A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/09/2026

"So you confused two teams? It’s an easy mistake to make! The one time a friend invited me to a Yankees game with seats by third plate, everyone I knew was outraged that I had such an amazing view but couldn’t remember whether the Yankees had faced the Lakers or Manchester United." buff.ly/hFrhZKG

buff.ly

An Open Letter to Senator Eric Schmitt About It Being Totally Okay Not to Know Anything About Sports

“It is hard in America not to be good at understanding sports! People have no idea how excluded people like us feel.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile METR is being positioned as an "independent" group that is evaluating the "safety" of the systems being built by Anthropic et al. But they are neither independent nor investigating actual safety. And that, is the kind of story we need the press looking into around these goons.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sentiment index has become primarily a metric of partisanship now, like so many other things. The other stuff matters, but this magnitude of partisan swings didn’t happen in the 20th century, & that is directly linked to changes in the media environment in the 21st.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026

Climate defiance are legends. Amazon are a fossil fuel company. Why are do they get climate week invites??

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026

We see your Western Massachusetts lesbian KN-95 bar story. We raise you "bookseller tries to figure out if the company that posts close-ups of trout eggs that's trying to buy his entire inventory is actually AI scheming to slice up rare books to scan them" story.

motherjones.com

A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books

Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

one thing that’s going on here is that a lot of these rich people had already offloaded most of their day-to-day cognitive tasks long before AI

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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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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fleeing rats only interesting because of sinking ship

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She’s right. And, fyi, the globe is doing victory laps over on other social media platforms about how many new readers and new subscribers they’ve gotten out of that “news article”— so we can expect more fuckass “reporting” like that from them in the future

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fair Share has delivered major wins in education and transportation. This is attack on the very idea behind it and on everyone who worked on that campaign. She doesn’t neutralize disingenuous MAGA attacks: she shows that they will work on her.

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Dr. Guy Incognito DDS @guyincognitodds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I (and @bostondsa.org) really want to emphasize that "No" vote on Question 5. It's millionaires trying to undo the Fair Share Amendment while damaging MA's finances far worse than if Fair Share had never passed at all. NO on 5!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, because it helps you avoid being a mark and to place accountability in people making these tools. Hope that helps.

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"AI investment is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-32 ... a staggering 3.6% of GDP/year. Never before has the US economy been so dependent on the buildout of a single industry." And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

wsj.com

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will be 92 years old on my death bed and the press will still be writing fawning profiles about how Richard Hanania and Tucker Carlson are changed men

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 19/09/2026

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

Grid of logic gate options as Venn diagrams of Tilly Norwood, Tilly Orwood, Tilly Andwood, Tilly Xorwood, Tilly Nandwood, and Tilly Xnandwood

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

During Amy Klobuchar’s tenure as a prosecutor, “the number of African-American men and boys who ended up in the state prison system, a good many of them falsely, increased by 600% ... and I questioned whether the shutting down of the CRU has something to do with covering for Amy Klobuchar.”

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As for this argument that "We're terrified of what we're building, but we have to keep building it because others are too and we don't want to lose money", how on earth do media presenters just take that with a sort of "Oh OK cool"?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We can think about companies going slower would actually mean. It would not mean 'we need to stop ourselves being so clever'. It would mean 'we need to build infrastructures that make everyone safer. E.g. computer systems that test and deploy agents in safe ways.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For AI governance, 'pacing', 'pausing' and 'slowing down' are the wrong metaphors. Only used by people who want this to be seen as a race. This is about steering, not braking. But...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And now: "pacing". FFS. "This invention could be catastrophically dangerous, so I'm only going to make it slowly." We should kill off this new weasel word right now.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think the gist of warnings like this one is correct: we urgently need binding international regulations before use of AI does serious harm. I'm also concerned that the debate is being distorted by the language & framings that those in the industry have imbibed. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I cannot emphasize enough that if you are going through with regulation, DO NOT GO WITH THEIR PLAN

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/09/2026

DELEGATE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM: I’d like to propose that we continue refusing to clarify whether a “Big Kid 4” is larger or smaller than a “Little Kid 13.” CHAIRPERSON: Excellent suggestion.

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Transcript from the Annual Meeting of the Global Children’s Shoe-Sizing Consortium

“Welcome, delegates. Before we begin, I’d like to congratulate everyone on another successful year of making children’s shoe sizing completely incomprehensib...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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