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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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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 1h

I just lit the fire. When it burned the house down, it was acting on its own.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18h

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 17h

All my childhood people freaked OUT about stranger danger at Halloween and now it’s real because of Trump and his ICEstapo.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new app lets you find out who’s behind the political mailers you receive, which comes in handy for people who don’t want to be manipulated by self-interested billionaires. Learn all about it from @juddlegum.bsky.social who created the “paidforby” app. joycevance.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...

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Paid for By

Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My dentist's office still has "Don't yell at us" signs up after Trumpist shitheels made yelling at strangers their thing during Covid and just never stopped. It's so appalling.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have been hating Lighting Source's (now Ingram's) shitty 240% ink limit for 25 years. Does ANY other print house still require that 1990s standard? And yet I'm stuck adapting to it because DriveThruRPG (now @roll20.net) refuses to get out of that bed, and our fans want the DTRPG POD option. Grrrr.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still working on a 2nd edition of our classic RPG Godlike. Supers in WW2. "Superpowers?" you say. "I thought you guys were not into power fantasies." This is not the Avengers. More like superpowers in Saving Private Ryan. Built to break down your Talent in deeply researched, grim and amusing detail.

Battle Fatigue
In extreme conditions, a character must make a Stability roll. If it fails, the character suffers battle fatigue.
Sample Battle Fatigue Triggers
' If Stability succeeds after killing up close or in cold blood you may spend 1 Base Will to become hardened. Such killing no longer risks battle fatigue.
Battle Fatigue Effects
• Physical: Roll 1d for an involuntary reaction or spend 1 WP to choose: (1-2) scream, (3-4) weep, (5-6) vomit, (7-8) urinate, (9-10) defecate. Whichever, you become exhausted (see "Exhaustion").
• Psychological: Choose a reaction from the "Battle Fatigue Responses." It lasts a few minutes. An ally can snap you out of it by rolling Leadership or Intimidation, which costs them 1 Will, granting you W in WP.
Battle Fatigue Responses
Lose WP equal to the lowest die in the failed Stability roll. Surrender or run away at top speed.
Lose WP equal to the lowest die in the failed Stability roll. Sit paralyzed in uncontrolled fear and shock.
Lose WP equal to the highest die in the failed Stability roll. Mindlessly attack or perform some repetitive task.
RESPONSE
EFFECTS
Flee

Freeze

Fight

MOST COMMON IN

New soldiers

Combat veterans

Not common
Battle Fatigue at Zero Will Points
If battle fatigue reduces you to zero WP, or strikes when you have zero, it's worse: you lose 1 Base Will; you lose 1d from the Stability skill, if you have it; and you must roll on or choose from the "Permanent Trauma" table. (At the GM's discretion, you might be sent to a field hospital for a shower, a clean uniform, and two days of sedation and hot meals. That grants a Stability roll to shake off the permanent trauma and regain Win WP.)

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an increasingly good point. Now that AI owned by chuds is ubiquitous, the only safe bet is that anything free is a lie.

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 02/10/2026

Oooooooh Brian's first scholarly work of Staffordian Studies is finally out! Add this one to your RSS feeds, people!

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is cartoonishly evil, like something out of a silent film involving widows tied to railroad tracks by a Rudolph Rassendale knock-off.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Freemasons finally get as interesting as the rumours

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good news: There are *twenty* novels in that series, astonishingly rich in heart and beauty. Bad news: There are only twenty novels in that series. :(

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get on this, it is wild.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are two merciless gods of war, the elder (logistics) & the younger (ballistics). Both are math first & everything else second. There is a reason military academies are engineering schools at heart

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I used to make fun of the Luddites. Now I just want to smash every cotton gin in reach.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why Delta Green does not allow taking notes in criminal fuckin conspiracies

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since I'm sure you don't want chaos, and you want to help end crime in America by letting a private company use AI to track your every motion, I know you won't help any of these organizations.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My fellow Americans, for real, what the fuck? Is anything too much?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

Animal Facing Extinction In 2003 Fucks Its Way Back theonion.com/animal-facing-extincti…

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Playtesting The Black Company RPG this weekend at KamCon, Kamloops, BC.

A photo of page 1 of the scenario “The Temple of the Unseeen.”

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Mayday Roleplay @maydayroleplay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Want to introduce your players to #DeltaGreen but not sure where to start? Try Meridian by @shaneivey.bsky.social. This month's Dead Drop is a debrief with @maiasgameroom.bsky.social, who ran it on @lookingformom.bsky.social. Listen before you run it! youtu.be/rAaQU9vVo_k

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Legal name change, I dunno. Pseudonyms are common among Chinese and SE Asian immigrants here in BC.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brownshirts. It's 1934 in these United States. And we have too many quiet Germans.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

YOU LOVE DINOSAURS. Now be one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tha... New from our buddy Chris Gunning and friends.

kickstarter.com

Herd of Horns

An Original TTRPG Celebrating Dinosaurs for Being Dinosaurs!

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

$900K in bribes for $40M a year in contracts is *solid* ROI

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026

you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When authoritarian regimes collapse, their leaders experience symbolic deaths, largely through the destruction & removal of monuments that they've built to glorify themselves and affirm their power. Sometimes called "iconoclasm," who gets a statue or monument is always a symbolic struggle for power.

6th July 1945: A bust of Adolf Hitler lies amidst the ruins of the Chancellery, Berlin. Reg Speller/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

A picture taken on August 22, 1991 shows a crowd watching the statue of KGB founder Dzerzhinsky being toppled on Lubyanskaya square in Moscow. ANATOLY SAPRONENKOV/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqis, with the help of U.S. troops, topple a monument to Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad in 2003. One journalist described the toppling of Saddam as “the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima.”

Hungarians stand over the toppled statue of Joseph Stalin on Oct. 23, 1956.Credit...Andor D. Heller/Hungarian News Agency

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some copies also come with a patented BackerKitFuckUp®

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It DOES NOT have a tracking chip sewn into the binding.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Built on theft is real, ongoing, and glided past by too many. This is an ILLEGAL enterprise. And the settlements, as with Anthropic and writers, are chaotic in the extreme, minimal as sanctions, and will NOT stop them.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You work to create something. You get to decide whether to give it to someone else. If it can be reproduced, you decide what to do with the reproductions. This gives you a reason to do the work. Oops! Nope. Techbros say the work you did is theirs. Not because you agreed. Just because they want it.

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Lou Anders @louanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Baldur's Gate 3, and Fury of the Forsaken all use a 5 part structure of three open sandboxes, linked by multiple choice funnels, framed by an intro and a conclusion/final battle to provide story cohesion. It's a great scaffolding for #TTRPG adventure design:

youtu.be

Structure: The Scaffolding of TTRPG Design

YouTube video by Lazy Wolf Studios

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 17/09/2026

Astro City is super great superhero stuff, if you haven't read it yet, here's your chance, and if you have read it, check this out for any book you might have missed!

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Calling Hegseth “Colonel Vodka” gives him too much credit. He was only a major.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A smart priestess of the stormgod has plenty of excuses ready in case an elaborate spell like this doesn’t bring rainfall.

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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So somebody in college definitely got Patel to fuck a pig, right?

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