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Fire Emblem, Atlus & Falcom tragic. I like trains.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h
"All around the country, in our democracy, premiers and politicians are competing to restrict our rights. They are doing this in the country we grant them the privilege of governing. Increasingly, they are protecting the interests of the powerful and unconscionable over the needs of the public."
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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 5h
AI as a moral crumple zone: The effects of AI-mediated communication on attribution and trust, by Jess Hohenstein and Malte Jung www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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AI as a moral crumple zone: The effects of AI-mediated communication on attribution and trust
AI-mediated communication (AI-MC) represents a new paradigm where communication is augmented or generated by an intelligent system. As AI-MC becomes m…
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Responding to those losers is like playing chess with a pigeon.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.
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Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns
Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 10/10/2026
Leuven might be the best cycling city you’ve never heard of. 37% of trips are by bike; not by accident, but by years of rethinking streets, reducing car dominance and recirculating traffic. While the large capitals attract most headlines, Leuven is another example of a small city making big moves.
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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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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They clearly have no intention of stopping. If they are not arrested for repeatedly doing this shit you have simply made it legal for them to pull these stunts.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That is a very tempting mistake.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
IIRC it's also only the organisers of Lemons that get the forced buy option, but they also usually just resort to penalties of varying levels of humiliation instead.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Socialised healthcare doesn't even really have significant waste. Anything expensive or potentially unnecessary is behind doctor or specialist request and anything minor enough to not need it is usually preventative in some form.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Digital privacy laws are wholly inadequate for dealing with the kinds of things that can be done with... 15+ year old tech - and not just by the big ones like Google.
youtube.com
A picture is worth a thousand data points
YouTube video by Reject Convenience
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The only script I used was a USB thumb drive and oh wait it has Linux on it and now there's no more Windows. Problem solved.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
even just the art makes it obvious, with the masks.
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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I want to be so clear: if you have decided for yourself that in your life you must use AI for something that's your business. I don't decide right and wrong for anyone but me. but do not tell me about it. I don't want to hear about it. I do not want to normalize or validate what you are doing.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man, I just had this happen, except the opponent had 13%. Also they were a boss and one-shot me in return. I probably deserved that for tempting fate lol.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Recalling a product already no longer being sold is not unusual.
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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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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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Konami tried a Yugioh one back in the lockdowns and it lasted a couple hours at best. It hadn't even gotten that bad lol. Probably should have seen that coming given that on their Twitch they ban the word 'target' (which is on something like half of all cards) because they didn't like ARG existing.
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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therun.gg @therun.gg · 02/10/2026
SRC changed their terms of use yesterday, and released a news post with an FAQ. They make it sound like not a big deal. It's a big deal. The Creative Commons licence is gone. They claim ownership over the data now. Thread about what this means, and what we can do about it 🧵
Comparison of the old src terms and the new src terms
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"We vote, we make submissions, we go to court,we meet our MPs, we compile & present evidence.All of this activity rests on a belief in the systems of govt that have now clearly failed to meet their solemn public duty.We must seriously consider what avenue remains available to us to fend off despair"
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Their inhuman violence should be punished in kind.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis www.governmentnews.com.au/agencies-slo...
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Agencies slow to detect data breaches - Government News
It takes more than three months for the federal government to detect data breaches, according to new analysis.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Famously the merch sales were what made Lucasarts (and Lucas) as rich as it was.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
Young activists have utilized social media to create change and launch powerful advocacy campaigns for over ten years. However, Meta’s new settlement will create many barriers for future advocacy work done by young people. www.eff.org/how-the-met...
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How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism
The recent Meta lawsuit on the use of Instagram and Facebook by young people silences youth activism.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Episode 1 of Out of Sight, Out of Mind is here from the ASRC. Our podcast series takes you inside Australia's offshore detention system, through the first-hand accounts of refugees, including people still detained there. You can listen on Spotify or Apple via 👇 pulse.ly/daubusdufv
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Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The rich and powerful have sunk trillions into concrete, steel & fossil fuels that benefit them, not us. Our lives and our bodies are on the line. Car culture kills & maims millions of us every year, especially our children & people who are poor or old or disabled. We must win this #WARonWALKING
Two people walking in a street in the Rainier Valley of Seattle. Cars are parked on the street. One of the people is carrying groceries, the other looks like a teen coming home from school. There are no sidewalks, but wide roads and a collection of oddly placed wooden and metal poles.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life,"  she said.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026
If you want to know how much you can trust your news source: if they're reporting artists are dumping Ed Sheeran's cowardly ass for Macklemore, they're not to be trusted. If they're reporting they're dumping Ed Sheeran because he's a spineless coward afraid to speak up against genocide, you're good.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also related to the specialist fees climbing so fast, so are medical report fees. Not too long ago I saw an invoice for a GP trying it on for 3 grand.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
God Tim Wilson drives me up the wall. I really hope that forced definition of 'affordable housing' actually goes somewhere, given how states have just given up on real public housing. Right now they're just inviting a homelessness boom to happen with their bullshit.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...
7news.com.au
'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments
‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’
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Jess Saphia @jesssaphia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Israeli forces in Gaza have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.” #auspol has responsibilities under international law #ICJ
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I guess so! The actual reason seems to be that the collection got rated as a separate product for physical console release, which means they're supposed to follow that on Steam. But since the original games weren't really changed so they get to re-release them with the original ratings.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok, I've found the funniest one. Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 2 (which contains MGS4 and Peace Walker) is blocked, but neither MGS4 or Peace Walker are individually blocked. They literally just blocked the combo deal.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's always been R18 here as far as I know.
classification.gov.au
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The most amusing exception might be GTAV. Ignoring the games without a rating at all.
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's also entirely ineffectual as I can just buy a key elsewhere, activate it and install per usual.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 10/09/2026
Steam is asking Australians to verify they're adults by linking a credit card, something millions of Australians don't have: aftermath.site/steam-is-askin...
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They sent this as a copy paste response to everyone who complained.
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Hamish Plaggemars @hamishplaggemars.com · 10/09/2026
See also AI captions - I used to work as a captioner and they introduced AI to "make workflow faster" and it ended up being more work because I had to keep fixing the fact a computer does not understand the nuance of language context Now it's all AI and it's garbage
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well, here goes. I tried to keep it contained. Ridicule is what we use to fight institutional hostility. Make no mistake, that's what this is. rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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Skasaha @skasaha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's so much wrong with this one screenshot it's pretty clear they failed before they even started.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anti-democratic APS sentiment
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"There have been a lot of provocative comments made [about climate change] over the last few days from all sides of the debate & I find it very unhelpful." NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY says PM of super-majority govt that's approved 36 Coal+Gas projects www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Part of a First Dog on the Moon cartoon

above an image of a snow-clad mountain range are the words:
'A glacier collapses, a 50m wall of liquefied rocks and ice hurtling down at 170 km/h rolling house-sized boulders but this is not the time to talk about climate change'

Frame below is an image of a fossil fuel extraction facility with the words:
'According to the prime minister this tragedy is NOT the time to talk about climate change but IS time to turn on Beetaloo, the biggest gas tap in the country which will spew 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon over its lifetime.
In the left corner is a suited man with a hard hat labelled 'Minister for Ignoring Climate Change'

In the bottom panel, a guy in a hotdog suit shrugs. The words say 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this!'
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