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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 6h

It’s like the Brave Little Toaster only it’s not little and it’s more an asshole than brace

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 9h

Probably helps a candidate if they are furious like the rest of us.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17h

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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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We’re back to saying it’s just an LLM

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My dad always remembered the time he carried the bin out over his shoulder and the guys told him he could be one of them.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/10/2026

it is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.

The ballot initiative would raise the sales tax rate by 0.5 percentage points in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Contra Costa and Alameda counties and by 1 percentage point in San Francisco, and is expected to generate roughly $980 million annually for the next 14 years to sustain bus, train, metro and ferry lines.

Many of the region’s transit agencies have already proposed contingency plans if the measure fails. BART said it would likely have to end service at 9 p.m. instead of at midnight, reduce train frequencies to 30 minutes and move from five-line to three-line service outside of peak commute hours. Caltrain has proposed eliminating weekend services, closing more than a third of stations and ending operations around 9 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. AC Transit is looking at reducing service by 16%, while Muni said it could eliminate up to 20 routes, cut service by at least 30% and end regular evening service.

The fiscal cliff facing transit agencies was triggered by the decline in ridership due to the pandemic and hit agencies heavily dependent on fare revenues, like BART, the hardest.

SPUR, a nonprofit policy think tank sponsoring the measure, released a report last month that found that if the measure and San Francisco’s Proposition H fail, traffic delays on the Bay Bridge could increase by 33 minutes heading west in the morning and 43 minutes heading east in the evening. Caldecott Tunnel traffic could see delays of an additional 20 minutes in the morning and 27 minutes during the evening commute. Congestion could also worsen along Interstate 580, Interstate 680 and U.S. 101, the report found.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hollowed out the Scenic Art dept years ago and installed large format printers, I worked for one of the last designers (J. Michael Riva) to request actual hand painted backdrops because he knew you could get subtle effects that you couldn’t get otherwise.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After 10 years the NYTimes has it figured out

Text reads, NEWS ANALYSIS
On the Trail, Trump's Focus Is Still Trump

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, for me it was The Thing. I saw it on TV when home alone.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, I worked on that one, anything in particular. At the end of the live action shoot the designer and I painted some orange tinted hot melt something inside the hole in the giant leach to give it a nice slimy look. We kept burning ourselves.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I did one that shot 6 days a week, everyday went long, so with the turnarounds by Saturday we got off at 6 on Sunday morning, then back at 7 on Monday, for weeks after week, nobody had any ability to think.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s the former fake mayonnaise factory, and the Joseph Schmidt Chocolate factory that went out of business after being purchased. I worked on a Disney movie there that never got finished (hardly even got started because the Disney executives kept messing with it) Auspicious choice.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nah, it actually sucks at the user level. I live with someone forced to use it, whose coworkers have become progressively less able at their jobs, less able to communicate effectively, less moral, less ethical, more paranoid, and it links directly to the C-suite’s (not-yet homicidal) AI psychosis.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First time I saw an Aztek was when we were crashing a bunch of GM cars they gave us for the Matrix Reloaded. Anyway the Aztek came with a lunch box as the arm rest. I don’t think we crashed an Aztek, too weird even for the simulation, I guess.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

History is fake only grievances are real

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read that as “half calf” and saw him in pedal pushers eating his cinnamon bun

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have seen Aaron Sorkin, white as the driven snow, wandering the set in his PJs at 7 in the morning, this is just weird.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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One Earthling @oneearthling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A world of secret hungers Perverting the men who make your laws Every desire is hidden away In a drawer in a desk by a Naugahyde chair On a rug where they walk and drool Past the girls in the office www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEx...

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Brown Shoes Don't Make It (Live)

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When I was in high school PA was combining school districts. Merging with an integrated town in Delco produced a group called Citizens Against Merger Efforts. Later I was back and an old friend told about asking her mom who some guys were at her dad’s funeral, “oh that’s the local KKK” she said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026

“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)

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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please share with any Washington dem consultant you happen to know.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know a guy who got an executive position in a volunteer organization. He complained that the organization didn’t provide him with a person to keep his calendar.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Big AI’s whole schtick now is convincing themselves that they and their friends are the most important people on earth working on the most important project in the history of mankind, and that means you can’t have any boundaries if you want to work with them

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reposting this Tom Forcade story because MS Now just did a segment on it, in relation to the current attempted free-press ban...

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Did they finish scanning the entire readers digest archive?

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a special delete for the ones saying they are up on an important mid month fundraising deadline

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I thought the drones were at the ballroom

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve met a few of those guys and the thing is, when they say that, they will believe it because at their core they are a bunch of rat fuckers

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Tom Richardson @tomrichardson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The highway to Disney World from the airport has a photo of Trump looking sort of “meh” and the slogan “why does your vacation cost more this year?”

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"all kids should get to play sports ❤️" <--campaign message for y'all if you need one

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 17/09/2026

Big Tech cannot regulate themselves. Working people should not have to live in fear for our jobs and lives because of AI. We need a voice at the table to decide how AI is used and guardrails to protect our jobs and rights, so we have a secure future that works for all of us.

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