iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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After July 31st there is precisely one working week for the rest of the year and no one knows when it is.

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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
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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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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cats will hear a noise you cannot hear, stare at something you cannot see, and then leave you alone in a room with it.

Jinx the tabby bobtail with airplane ears and her green eyes wide open.

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you so much to the people who write good documentation. I have not seen any today for what I am trying to do. But for the people who do write good docs for other things, you are amazing.

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 05/10/2026

New cursed blunt rotation just dropped

VF subheds:

SAM ALTMAN
SEES THE FUTURE
LARRY ELLISON
HIS ISLAND, HIS EMPIRE GAVIN NEWSOM CAN THIS MAN UNITE HIS PARTY?
ERIKA KIRK
THE WIDOW'S PEAK
PLUS
DONALD
THE GREAT
By Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The thing about p hacking is every knows "p hacking" is bad; but everyone LOVES saying "well what if I try this?"

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street so why not explore the story of what did (and didn't) happen on the most famous day in British anti-fascist history in this uncommonly concise episode of Origin Story

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026

However, is that good looking UI helpful for the project and user? Management will think so, yes! But I’m an expert in my field. I know having a very good looking mockup early on is actually detrimental to the tool design process. Because folks will think it’s final.

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/10/2026

Separated by handclaps: Use LLMs to write deterministic code that get called at runtime rather than asking an LLM to do the thing during runtime. Truly hope this is obvious to everyone here, but, just in case it's not...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 30/09/2026

We have been hard at work on ggvis2 but we will have to severely restrict access to it due to safety concerns. The visualisations are just too convincing

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two-and-a-half years after the UK hardback, the US paperback of the "terrifically entertaining" (NYT), "delightfully witty" (Slate), "clever and voluminous" (Guardian) Everything Must Go is out now this week so I am promoting it for the last time I promise www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...

penguinrandomhouse.com

Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey: 9780593468647 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factor...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

300 new usable solar panels out of 600 old and partly broken solar panels, made during a one day workshop. ...organised by the German small scale solar power furthering NGO @balkon.solar

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 28/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky: "This crypto coin that's set up to pay transaction fees to me is an obvious scam and any money you put into it will vaporize. However,"

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New signed prints up in the shop!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First page of the new Dredd story by Williams, Wyatt and Flint. At this point Flint is operating on a completely different level. The things he is doing here with perspective, flow, information and pacing feel intuitive but properly new.

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thisbloke.bsky.social @thisbloke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“How many other thousands of lives you will never see have been fruitlessly and callously bent and twisted towards this world: skills you will never witness, names you will never hear?“

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We can rank humans thus: 1. don't have a podcast 2. have one. 3. have one with a former adversary based on the premise of setting aside supposedly superficial differences of world view to convey that what unites us is our fundamental propensity to engage in matey banter.

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Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The "how much do you like dogs" chart we all needed.

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thisbloke.bsky.social @thisbloke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“The idea reassures believers that true patriots like themselves will soon be financially secure, respected, and healthy” - best pithy encapsulation of a source of the issues…

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One frame per day for a year, taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. local time (from the satellite’s perspective). GOES orbits directly above the equator, so the terminator (line dividing night from day) appears to swing back and forth beneath the satellite over the course of the year.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The old East–West divide is fading. Berlin’s electoral map is now clearly structured by a center–periphery divide: inside the S-Bahn Ring—the circular urban rail line surrounding central Berlin—the left camp dominates. Support for the right bloc rises with distance from the center. (1/2)

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of this is also exacerbated by the fact schools and colleges do not teach things properly and very frequently use game development only as a sexy carrot to encourage people into comp sci (in an ideal world it WOULD be treated more like cross-disciplinary drama productions are treated)

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Duane Keiser Water and Lemon Oil on Canvas - 9 x 7.5 inches 2022

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/09/2026

honestly same

a vending machine with a small printed sign taped to it:

the light inside
is broken but
i still work

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lots of interactive #dataviz by the FT team in this article covering the network of relations between players across the AI sector

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing…

F1 track with numerous Zoom signs on the advertising billboards

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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 16/09/2026

saw the word ‘momtrepreneur’ for first time today. probably the last, too, since I’m about to gouge my own eyes out.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I will walk free, without the fear of being bombed without a warning any moment, and without a single thought of curfew!

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My downstairs neighbors presumably have the same layout as me, so how is it possible they're slamming so many doors. I KNOW how many doors there are and where. Is it possible they have installed more doors. Structurally it makes no sense but I cannot think of another explanation. Are THEY doors

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 01/08/2026

Falling Block Jam 2026 is now open for sign-ups! For just over a week in September, let's hack together our own ideas in the classic arcade puzzle genre. #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...

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Falling Block Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-28 hosted by davemakes. Falling Block Jam celebrates the combination of blocks and gravity in video games. Think Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Panel de Pon, Dr. Mario, and L...

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

p(doom) > 95%

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

...Hugging Face apparently leaving the default admin access privileges on across database clusters... This is, frankly, amateur hour kind of stuff for run of the mill cyber and infosec teams.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt ( one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers')

Print in black and white of two tea cups on saucers next to two teaspoons on a surface

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Allister Heath: Adapt to Mediterranean climate

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thisbloke.bsky.social @thisbloke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Applicants must be from working-class or lower socio-economic backgrounds. Writers from these backgrounds continue to face significant barriers to entering and sustaining careers in film and television” 👍

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weinberg @weinbergs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I could watch this for an hour.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Most generous countries. Often, nations who’ve suffered massive instability are among the most generous. Haiti. Liberia. Iraq. (source: Charities Aid Foundation) part of our Beautiful News project informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew...

Scatter plot showing the relationship between generosity and wealth among various countries. Nations like Indonesia, Myanmar, and Kenya, which are marked as poorer, appear highly generous. Richer countries such as the USA and Ireland also exhibit significant generosity. The x-axis represents wealth, and the y-axis illustrates generosity levels. Circle size indicates the scale of the economy. The chart highlights that some of the world's poorest nations are among the most generous.

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