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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 13/10/2026

For this.weekinsecurity.com: I recently learned that if you get a suspicious call, email, or text message purportedly from Amazon, you can find out in a flash if it was real or a scam by checking your account's message center online.

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PSA: How to check if that Amazon call, email, or text message is a scam

The message verification feature lets you check if outreach is real — or a scam.

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have a friend in USA who is/was working in this area for a major chain. His eye rolling currently powering us west coast. Of course he was laid off for ai crap. Who would need reliable goods monitoring? Anyway, can't wait to see supermarket deal with their insurance company

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Lucky for me my friend who works in this space is on a social media break. Very much agreeing with you. The level of corporate responsibility taken is quite an issue

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Getting out of the hyper vigilante state is so hard, for me at least. Takes me days.

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hopefully I only need to go once today. They are offering a battery trade-in, $50 off new battery pack for one old battery (some type of brand promotion)

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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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Blue the Science Dude @science-dude.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Technosignatures: signs that something artificial or engineered is out there in the cosmos. But where should we look? #SETI Inst. is searching where, from an alien perspective, Earth would transit the Sun. First results are published! 🧪🔭👽 arxiv.org/abs/2610.07065

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 09/10/2026

Want to help discover an exoplanet? 🪐 Planet Hunters Cheops is a new #CitizenScience project that invites you to search for planet transit signals hidden in light curves from our Cheops mission. Join the hunt on @zooniverse.bsky.social 👉 www.zooniverse.org/projects/bme... 🔭 🧪 #Exoplanets

This artist impression shows a planetary system with four planets circling around a star. In the foreground, a large reddish-brown rocky planet with craters is visible. Behind it, there are three smaller planets: one with blue and white colours, another with blue and brown bands, and the third with a rocky surface. In the top right corner of the image, a small but bright red star illuminates the scene, with space dust and distant stars visible in the background.

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Upstream timeout error is what I saw

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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Whenever women point out all men need to do more to stop the abuse of women ... some men respond “NOT ALL MEN!” Those men are confessing and should be treated accordingly. Men who center themselves over women suffering abuse are telling on themselves." www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...

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Cornell University, Systemic Sexual Abuse, and the Men Responsible

Content Warning: This is a post about men, rape, and women

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're saying " this time it's different"

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Data breaches are always worse than they first appear, but that's a new way for that to happen

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My question would be what else have they run amok through and no one has noticed yet? Also who for?

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Looks like a great spot to relax

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I haven't seen the notice yet but I assume it's coming. 2m records is a lot though, that's a good whack of Australia.

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When we went past about 4 hours later, price had increased to $271.9/l for diessl

Fuel price display 830am 17 September 2026 showing diesel $269.9/l

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'll be reading it for the 'splosions

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can we include an audit of the copyright compensation mechanism/org first?

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Markus Pössel @mpoessel.de · 14/09/2026

Tonight‘s aim: another image of Supernova 2026aaiv, which is currently happening in NGC 7331. 🔭🧪

Spiral galaxy with a bright extra dot near the center.

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You've seen them now arguing against open weight models and asking for a slowdown. Basically trying to shut down and exclude any competition

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You have downloaded them?

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My "congrats" for that from local councillor included instructions for getting a state gov seniors card

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Hoodoo Gyros

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm going to be amused when the AI says stop doing stuff that gets people in the streets protesting

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

www.pmc.gov.au/about-us/acc... If the APS was actually transparent, maybe people would have context anyway. I find the claim that they did not consent to image being used and saved from ridicule extraordinary. The APS itself does this to staff and consent isn't asked And telling parliament? Jfc

Screenshot from Secretaries Board showing comminiques are only up to July 2026 underneath text declaring they are transparent

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I've half given up on tiktok I try and stick to the following category for this reason Lately I found it has removed the friends category which makes using it even more of pain Only have so much time and energy to fight software

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Tqft @tqft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This winter we didn't put the heating on. Occasionally closed front door, trackies and slippers, and dressing gown, but no heating

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/08/2026

Launch coverage is live! Launch scheduled for about half an hour from now! 🚀

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it? That’s what happened at that border crossing: mass murder

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The Reckoning

That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?

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