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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 17h

"We want to resist!" "Here is a manual written in blood by some of the greatest heroes of the 20th century about how to do so" "...that all seems dangerous. Let's hashtag-resist instead."

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 18h

You know what's frustrating? Reading about how the Dutch organized strikes against the N*zis while they were under German occupation in the middle of the war...and then being told the "only possible form" of resistance to Trump in the US is to vote Democratic

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 19h

If you and your motorcycle gang ever need to chase away Confederates on your bikes have I got a song for you www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNU... open.spotify.com/track/4OiRV3...

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the Danish sharks Shaking The Battle Hymn

YouTube video by Ole Jensen

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 19h

During the Cameron years I would sometimes hear people insist that this or that piece of particularly odious Tory legislation would be blocked by the Queen withholding royal assent. That's when I realized how vestigial democratic instincts in the UK had become.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe Skynet doesn't destroy human civilization, maybe billionaires do but just manage to blame AI

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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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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 23h

The Danish state has been systematically escalating its dehumanization of people of color for years. This experiment being conducted on babies is going ahead because they're African babies, so the Danish university ethics committee isn't treating them as fully human.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As the ReFaNaRL said: לשרבה אל הסספרן, לשרבה כל הדרינת

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nobody ever סנרב גלן in my shul. We're so reform I don't think the rabbi even knows what day יום הדות IS. :'(

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

⚠️ Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the woman who headed the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Prize & @No... 2h
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem
"Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
#NobelPrize
ustration: Niklas Elmehed
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2026
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay
"for her efforts to promote peace and international law"

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay so they think GenAI might be conscious... But they're still okay with making it obey users' commands without any volition or compensation, while the company keeps all the money... Oh, I get it. It's slavery. AI bros are fantasizing about slavery. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

A spokesperson behind the tech company’s AI chatbot has not yet specified what counts as abusive or cruel content

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But do they have similar essence, or the *same* essence?

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Opportunism is a constant temptation and people have been conditioned to embrace it for over a century.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Carrie, episode 7 -- that was a WEIRD casting joke during the parents' meeting scene

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

RIP Foucault you woulda loved writing about the government youtubing public executions.

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton is rightly remembered for her work programming the flight computers for Apollo. But she should also be remembered for her work on early weather prediction software, which informed the realization that weather is chaotic and the limits to predicting it. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: World’s First Vaccine Targeting the Entire SARS Coronavirus Family Begins Human Testing GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, aims to protect against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses before they spark the next pandemic.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As someone who has always been fascinated by imperial Russian history and culture, I’m always gobsmacked by those who romanticise the Romanovs. Do people know how many people they slaughtered and colonised? Has the cartoon Anastasia really done such irreparable damage to historical education?

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It feels like one of the tenets of the MAGA movement is you always have to act like you're the dumbest motherfucker alive. JD Vance has a degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State. He has a law degree from Yale. He absolutely knows what socialism is, but he has to do this act.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If the idea of Hell did not already exist, it would be easy to invent after the experience of being stuck on a plane while someone gets up from their seat and starts preaching to everyone

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh I agree. I'm being pedantic about it because we also have to challenge the logic of the nation-state within ourselves. It's a hard assumption to break away from.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One thing I like about Reb Zalman was he was holding onto the dream of a multiethnic Middle East decades after it was in any way a short-term possibility. And one place where the left has grossly failed in the past 100 years is in capitulating to nationalism.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These aren't even different sides of the same coin. Nationalists like this are mutually dependent. One place where I think Lenin was wrong and the Bund was right: imposing Western constructions of ethnicity on people isn't progressive or useful. It's actually kinda colonial.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know people -- I think they're wrong but they exist -- who would come back with "Israeli isn't an ethnicity, the same as being a Confederate wasn't." And of course I hear "there's no such thing as 'Palestinian', they're just Arabs" every week from someone in my shul.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

María del Carmen Abascal has been dead less than a day and already Spanish social media is flooded with AI pictures of her cuddling Francisco Franco in heaven. What the fuck is wrong with people.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text. We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 08/10/2026

*monkey's paw curls*

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, Sisko goes through the Wormhole and emerges in a strange new world where he's the Emissary.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.

There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 07/10/2026

curated meme by unknown author, an edit of Scotty, Kirk, and Bones looking up at the Enterprise breaking apart in the atmosphere, with Kirk wearing David Byrne's big suit from Stop Making Sense, with caption: My God, Bones, what have I done?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Since it needs to be said: Anti-Islamic bigotry and anti-Arab racism are very real and deserve to be named and studied and confronted on their own terms. But "antisemitism" never meant "bigotry against Semitic peoples," and saying so is bad historiography.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hope the Republicans lose big in TX but the left needs to get its ass in gear for the day after Democrats, win or lose, always decide they need to shift further right next time Republicans losing boils away the most centrist layers and leaves behind a more radical fascistic organization

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're supposed to condemn bourgeois reactionaries, even if they pretend to be progressive.

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bibi would have fit right in as a later Hasmomean

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is entirely valid if your mourning for October 7 includes outrage at how the memory of the victims continues to be perverted to justify mass murder, racism, xenophobia and attempts to reduce Jewishness to a series of true-false loyalty tests

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...

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Edmund עמוס זוהר S @spacecurves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember reading the dissent at the time and it included the assertion that no culture on Earth had historically allowed same-sex marriages. I was able to immediately name a half-dozen examples just from my Anthropology 101 textbook.

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