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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

there's no way in which this man isn't a stain on our society

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Common Wealth Canada @commonwealthcanada.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Don't tax the house, tax the ground. Why penalize home improvements? Shifting to LVT lets us lower taxes on buildings and work, making it cheaper to build and stay in your home.

Comparison of Property Tax vs Land Value Tax showing how LVT encourages building improvements instead of penalizing them.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

someone needs to investigate the divorce -> podcast -> substack -> grandiose geoengineering plan pipeline

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026

To fix this, we need systemic action: the corporate death penalty for the companies that are consuming the structural members of our society. eof/

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This made my day

$Meme showing a young woman sitting on a park bench, looking at her phone with one hand against her forehead. The heading reads, “Is your child texting about archaeology?” In a box below: rofl = redistribution of flint lithics pmsl = post-medieval silt layer tbh = trowelled back hastily stfu = stupid trowel fractured utterly smh = splintered mattock handle mfw = mesolithic flint waste idc = I decrypt cuneiform lmao = late mesopotamian Akkadian origin$

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The quality of social housing being built in Paris takes some beating. Yes… this is new social housing! 107 apartments with solid stone facades, designed by AAVP Architecture. Photos by Benoît Santiard Would you just look at that beautiful balustrade!

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I appreciate that all of these guys' solutions to the mens' reading crisis is to walk up to vulnerable little boys and hand them footballs, but could we FOR ONE SINGLE SECOND stop to unpack the fact that the default definition of "masculine readers" for lots of these pundits is: "assholes"?

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.

Vertical bar chart titled "Norwegian wealth tax revenue, change from 2021 to 2024," in billions of Norwegian kroner (BNOK), nominal. Subtitle: top rate 0.85% to 1.1% and stock valuation discount cut from 2022.

Two bars. "Growth with no emigration": 13.71 BNOK, a tall bar. "Lost to reform-driven emigration": 0.65 BNOK, a barely visible stub, about one-twenty-first the height.

Notes: Growth includes the rate and valuation changes and wealth growth. Net of tax that emigrants still paid, the reform-driven loss is 0.49 BNOK.

Source: Ring (2026), NBER Working Paper 35854, equation 2 and figure 5.

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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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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

”When men are choosing between a regular showerhead and an energy-efficient one, about 80% … will choose the greener one if it is described as a way to save money. But if told that the same showerhead uses less water and is more environmentally friendly, that support falls by 10 percentage points.”

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Real men don’t do climate change

Research on the gender differences in how people think about global warming suggests campaigns and communications may need a rethink

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

The most unimaginative people in the world… “The bank — which takes its name from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit — holds much of its collateral in cryptocurrencies” I’m sure nothing will go wrong with that.

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wait. This is the infamous "Roko's Basilisk"!? I assumed it would be less... stupid. This is just Pascal's Wager written by someone who read and didn't understand NEUROMANCER oh right that's all these idiots do. Sigh.

If you're not familiar with it, Roko's Basilisk, in broad terms, supposes that at some point in the future a sentient and omnipotent artificial intelligence could arise, and that this intelligence could then decide to punish all those who had anticipated its possible arrival and either worked to prevent it or refused to participate in its development. In that case, the wise course of action for people now, who are aware of even the theoretical possibility of this scenario, would be to work in good faith to bring this AI into existence, lest they put themselves or their descendants in its future crosshairs.

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Kat @kat8655.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Worthy challenger to the "it was all revealed in a dream" footnote.

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Whenever I see the posters I always think someone drew the beard on with a sharpie.

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

On Bloomberg Surveillance today, an interviewee named Meredith Whitney described the spawn of an emerald miner thusly… “So you can have the American dream like Elon Musk, a broke immigrant that comes and becomes a, you know, the world's wealthiest man.” Guest quality control down at Bloomberg?

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Traders Have Data, Fedspeak and AI to Navigate

Podcast Episode · Bloomberg Surveillance · September 29 · 36m

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

*Adds Tolkienym screening tool to ESG governance filters*

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 28/09/2026

sherwood.news/tech/behold-...

screenshot of a "Can you spot the real "Lord of the Rings" inspired company names?" game

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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t remember if I actually posted one, but here’s a favorite bit of comics that I like so much I saved it on my phone.

A three-panel sequence from the Hell Boy comics. In the first panel, Abe Sapien is looking serious but not alarmed, and saying, “Is that a monkey?” The second panel is a closeup of Hell Boy shouting, “He’s got a gun!” The third panel shows a monkey firing a revolver, with blam-blam sound effects.

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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

American CEO: “We can’t control it!” American CEO 2: “It will destroy us all!” American CEO 3: “The apocalypse!” French CEO [hitting a Gauloise, exhaling slowly]: “C’est une issue de skill.”

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Private jets account for 16% of FAA operations but contribute just 0.6% of the taxes that fund it. Does that mean we should raise private jet taxes 25-fold to make up the difference? Why, yes, in fact Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Table: Private Air Travel Is a Carbon Bomb

Of the 3 quickest ways to travel from NYC to DC, private jets produce by far the most CO2 emissions per passenger.

Rail - 5.2 kg per passenger or 14.3 g per passenger/km
Commercial air - 44.38 kg per passenger or 128.62 g per passenger/km
Private air - 538.5 kg per passenger or 1500 g per passenger/km

Source: Institute for Policy Studies

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t remember another election where all the party leaders were so equally unlikable. Were they created by an LLM? #polQC

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The emphasis by PSPP about the decline of Québec culture the day after a Québ band won both Juno awards...buddy. #polQC

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Musk and the paypal mafia have so little imagination. Every company, conversation, or baby just references the last bit of mass-media they confidently misunderstood.

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Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Certains évoquent une «guerre à l'auto» au Québec. Rappel factuel: la croissance du parc automobile depuis 1990 au Québec est près de deux fois plus importante que la croissance démographique. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

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Le Québec est trop dépendant de la voiture, selon le comité climatique qui conseille le gouvernement

Une réduction de l’auto solo serait bénéfique pour la santé publique et les finances des citoyens, croient les experts.

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Quickly glanced at the Odd Lots Discord and happy to discover I was not the only listener thinking the Hadrian CEO is a dangerous psychopath.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

A placeholder elected by the suburbs to austere Montreal away from greatness.

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Woah, don’t make Saskatchewan angry! You are not gonna like Saskatchewan when it’s angry!

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Today’s Odd Lots guests confirmed that America’s problem goes deeper than Trump. The country is under the sway of a techno fascist cult and Trump is just an unsightly mole on its face. This isn’t going away in November. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...

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Odd Lots

Investing Podcast · Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

We got stuck with a car-loving suburban mayor who hates cycling the year before. So not surprising. But at least they are getting a real life Montreal cycling experience. Most of the TT course is the popular local route (with the Camilien-Houde and university climbs in the road race).

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 18/09/2026

The OpenAI guy Alex is QTing doesn't know what a fucking air-gap is, I literally consult on building these, I will take your money please and thank you

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The funniest joke ever. 😂

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks LLMs are inherently harmful, help them install one on their laptop, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."

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Emma Cardinal-Sirois @emmacardinal.com · 19/09/2026

this fall, montreal has turned its downtown ice skating rink into a roller skating rink for the first time and it's quite busy!

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you hear about the medieval siege where the attackers ran out of ammunition ? They loaded a severed peasant's head onto a trebuchet and fired it. By sheer luck, it hit the Duke's son and knocked him off the battlefield. Apparently it was the first ever serf-face-to-heir missile

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Starship Troopers: I'm Doing My Part!

ALT: Starship Troopers: I'm Doing My Part!

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Dieses Mal ist es Anders @waldenpondlife.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Has anyone asked why the number of pigs on the island keeps increasing and why the tourists are never heard from again…?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2026

(archaeological conference, 2077) "on the website known as Blue Sky, there was a repeated reference to 'came in a fluffer' - we believe this referred to a reference to a long-lost fertility ritual known as Sankey, and the phrase was considered to be one of well-wishes to those employing it"

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