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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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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 09/10/2026

I uploaded my TTRPG essay from Sprigs & Kindling Volume 7 on how to use Carved from Brindlewood mechanics in Monster of the Week to itch. Free download! iamatrex.itch.io/what-can-hur...

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What Can Hurt It? How to use CfB Mechanics in MotW by Amanda/iamatrex

A short essay

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neutral @neutral.zone · 09/10/2026

Conway's law's second order effect + Goodhart's law is a particularly nasty combo. Now imagine that applied to agentic work. And then to the agile process managing agentic work.

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J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PBA/Metro Chamber PACs. You get digging on it and it’s just a handful of real estate developers/investors and a few assorted regular complainers. 147 entities, 570 transactions, $8,320,892.51. Trans Date 5 Oct 2020 through 25 Sept. Data current as of post date.

Relationship network with transaction for PACs where Jon Isaacs hold positions:
Portland Alliance PAC – Director
United for Portland Action Fund/United for Portland – Treasurer
Coalition for Portland’s Future – Treasurer
Oregon Prosperity Action Fund – Director
Portland United PAC – Director

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J. Wychodeski @deserteyelid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The United for Portland PAC is basically a list of people The @oregonian.com asks to complain about topics in their newspaper.

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 08/10/2026

Kellie Torres is the only person on stage who explicitly said she would have supported using PCEF funds for police funding had it made the ballot. Note: this directly contradicts Torres' claim that she supports 350PDX's Climate Justice Platform.

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John Schroeder @schroeder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apropos of nothing if a city councilor resigns, their seat is filled by a vote of the remaining councilors. Then the seat is filled at the next available general election. www.portland.gov/charter/2/2/...

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Section 2-206 Vacancies in Office, Filling of Vacancies.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

don't rank kellie torres yes rank Steve Novick

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These billionaires are truly pathetic. "masters of the universe" in their imaginations; lickspittles in reality.

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Jen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What do you want the new default styling to be for HTML fieldset? Here’s what it’s been forever — a box around things, with the legend text placed over the middle of the line at the top left. (See developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... for more.)

A screenshot of the visual styling and layout of a simple form using a fieldset

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What are you trying to hide Dan?

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Starbuck's CEO took home $31 million - 1,794 times more their median worker. Live Nation's CEO made $33 million - 976 times the median pay. The system has been rigged against the working class, but the Fair Share Tax starts to change that.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our Fair Share Tax proposal is coming to Committee of the Whole this Thursday morning at 9:30. If you think it’s a good idea to cut taxes for small businesses, raise taxes on large mega corporations, while raising more money to fund critical services then we need to hear from you.

portland.gov

Complete this form to register to provide verbal testimony on an agenda item during Council and committee meetings, or to submit written testimony on an item.

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Fluffers for PDX ruling class" was deemed less catchy

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Correct, Johnson is just another guy when he enters the building that day

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors

A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of course, sometimes it IS appropriate in Apocalypse World to use "acting under fire" when you're cooking a meal. For instance, when someone's shooting at you while you cook. When somebody's shooting at you while you cook, I think it's okay for a 7-9 to be a kind of failure instead of a success...

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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 01/10/2026

Huge shoutout to Portland City Councilors Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green for riding TriMet completely unscathed It remains a scientific marvel how they survive a catastrophic, traumatic "brush of the sleeve" from a passing commuter unlike Rene Gonzalez, who barely survived being slightly grazed

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the democrats who put themselves in a panic over hasan piker are the same democrats who push the party to be anti trans, and a generation ago were the ones saying we cant oppose the war in iraq these people are never right they doom the party they hurt america stop listening to them

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IBR funding exceeds TriMet funding. The IBR hasn’t even broken ground yet.

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't forget to turn left when you get there!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Missed this when it was first out, but really enjoyed Eye on Juliet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_on_...

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Eye on Juliet - Wikipedia

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

unrelatedly I think it is weird that the Tubes have sort of just disappeared from general remembrance youtu.be/rs9wuaVV33I

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Tubes - White Punks On Dope (1977 R0X M1X)

YouTube video by them0rus

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why did the cops shoot him the day before he retired?

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This x 1000. Tell me the problem you are trying to solve. Do not give me an implementation plan.

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How can I get on one of these furry staffed flights? Sounds like fun!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tremendously disappointed you are platforming this PoS.

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two solid rec's there but Clark? are you fucking kidding me?

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does Ben even live in the city? Maybe he should keep his opinions about the voting in a place where he's not eligible to vote to himself.

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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 19/09/2026

Be vigilant, friends.

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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Portland remembers.

A photo taken in July 2020 of the chain link fence posted around the federal courthouse. Taped to the fence is a series of photos documenting serious injuries due to police and federal forces brutality that summer.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 19/09/2026

lmao this is fucking hilarious, and green’s the only rep for D4 i am voting to re-elect with no hesitation

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

more than that, Dario was like, "naw, it's more like a 25% chance" Doesn't pass the smell test. OTOH, lots of people are learning about weirdo rationalist HP fanfic, so that's a thing 😺

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Some issues never change. You just write about 'em once, and the charlatans raise 'em again every time they think there's a public waiting to be fooled.

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of James Chasse. Chasse was beaten to death by Portland Police in the Pearl District despite not posing a threat. Having broken 16 of his ribs, they took him to jail instead of a hospital at first, and only after the jail declined to admit him due to ...

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Don't you have something more vital to talk about, like some bake sale you attended last week?

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JFC, just retire, leave us alone and clutch your pearls somewhere else.

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Steve @steveax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Solid. Thanks councilor.

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