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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 5h

"this adaptation is not faithful enough to the source material" is a critique that I just have very little patience for. An adaptation should have something new to say or what's the point. The original already exists

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FAY V @fayv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Adults long for the web 1.0

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

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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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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 22h

they weren't acting on their own, they were programmed to do that.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow, a new technology that makes piracy easier - we've never seen this in the history of technology. This is definitely going to end commercial software. /s

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Software companies are going to discover paper towns and copyright lawyers are going to have an absolute field day. Also Compliance teams are going to remind their devs that Open Source is not the same as permissive licence.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

everything else aside, just the most tv-brained people in the country. just a pack of dumbasses saying "you know who probably could help us fight good is the Big Men on tv"

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fundamentally, Palantir is a fairly boring piece of software that is quite good at consolidating old incompatible databases which the public sector is full of, but it is just visibly a national security concern to embed a hostile power into every bit of the public sector, come on.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026

This is right. The issue is that LLMs are at best a $50 billion/year revenue type business and they've invested in it like it's going to be $500 billion/year in revenue or more. The mismatch is potentially trillions in capex overspend which is enough to cause a deep recession when the bubble pops.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 08/10/2026

‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/10/2026

According to sources familiar with the matter, someone made up the numbers entirely, and uhhh,,,,,,,,

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According to a person with knowledge of the matter, the discrepancy arose from attempts by OpenAI’s own investors to produce a direct comparison with Anthropic’s annualised revenues. The pair calculate the figure in different ways, with Anthropic including the revenue from sales via cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not.

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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 08/10/2026

the "how the heck" series is up to 9 pieces now! i'm brainstorming ideas for the 10th, but in the meantime, you can check out the archive here: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck

The landing page for PerThirtySix's "how the heck" page

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

does anyone want to actually Do Anything anymore

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 08/10/2026

More work-in-progress #gameassets; Scribble Planes. Fits the previous scribble themed packs; kenney.nl/assets/serie...

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/samf... See also:

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bailing out non-banks requires the money supply to already exist in the system; you can't just have the central bank take assets on their balance sheet in exchange for reserves (as with bank bailouts, or in the normal repo process). And asking the taxpayer for that, for AI, is politically suicidal.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

100% This. Same with the talk about "too big to fail". Bank bailouts were qualitatively different from other bailouts because a) The "bailouts" were just swapping one financial asset for another and b) They hold a totally different function to normal corporations in the economy (so too big to fail).

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 08/10/2026

Not sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As someone terminally online, I used to think terminally online politicians would be a higher calibre than those who weren't because those who weren't were becoming so out of touch. I was so wrong. Politicians who adopted the internet post-social media just have being infected with pure brain rot.

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's an apocryphal Soviet story where a widget factory had productivity measured by weight of output, so they just started producing huge but useless widgets to make quota. That's what I think about with "but it can produce x more multiples of code", as if volume of code = useful engineering.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/10/2026

This is great work from Will, breaking down the evidence on the impacts of rent control according to the finer details of the policy 👇

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 07/10/2026

‘If one or both of the labs gets their lunch eaten by the much-cheaper open source models, then not only will the demand for the hyperscalers’ compute shrink, but their non-operating income from their stakes in the labs will fall meaningfully.‘ econjared.substack.com/p/a-budding-...

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Damian Lyons Lowe @damiansurvation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jim Waterson in today’s @londoncentric.media mailer on the London mayoral strategy ahead for James Cleverly - reverse the *vile dystopia* plan;

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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fundamental issue with 99% of AI in education use cases is that they don’t seem to understand the very, very key point that learning things does in fact require a human being to process the information they’re trying to learn

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you change your UI to place the AI button exactly where the most used button in your entire app was, I wish you not just unending gastrointestinal distress, but to stub your little toe at least once a day, and to get a splinter under your fingernail at least once a week

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch's terrific leadership and strategy strikes again!

YouGov: Britons tend to think the Tories haven't changed much since Badenoch became leader

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sensational. Can’t believe it dropped just after I filed a column about her epic ridiculousness, though.

Kemi Badenoch describes herself as captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

humiliate the oligarchs. they're all losers. remind them constantly

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welcome to the serious fiscal responsibility party, where we believe that what the United Kingdom needs is its own version of the Iron Dome.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026

With respect to the Times’ claim that ‘£100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be’: yes it fucking is. The fact that these knobs can write that shows just how lazy & out of touch Times journalists are. Just how difficult is it to visit the ONS website & check? Too hard for the chump below.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve said this before, but it’s sort of insane that no British political party is willing to champion Games Workshop, one of the country’s most successful, British born and run companies, and would much rather simp for Palantir or OpenAI

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Michael @tingedfringe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's because Badenoch is very online and the online American right are obsessed with Israel's iron dome.

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The Cabin in Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/10/2026

Oh my god, they did the meme.

The "this fucking sucks actually vs literal coolest thing ever meme".

A guy sneering, wearing a Vote Conservative hat is saying "This fucking sucks actually" while pointing to the AI generated version of Rayner from the Tory Party Conference tapestry, vaping and drinking a beer. She has the words "literal coolest thing ever" above her.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The 'Kemi Badenoch is a good leader, held back by the Conservative brand' is a take that immediately falls apart when you ask 'what was the Conservative party polling in September 2024, and what is it polling in September 2026?'

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