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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?

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Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing

Who you gonna believe?

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3h

pope has incredibly consistent and obvious stance, Story #397

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 12h

Crazy how this brittle old bitch has convinced millions of suckers that whining is actually strength.

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Emoji Aquarium @emojiaquarium.bsky.social · 19h

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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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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine if a daycare center only installed electrical outlet covers one at a time after a toddler shocked himself, rather than just identifying all the outlets and covering them at once. That's basically the modern US city government approach to fixing streets.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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EricTime @erictime.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trouble with the curves

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

real ball knowers agree that if CIA is dumb enough to give all this to you, you should get to keep it as your “emotional support gold bars”. to argue otherwise is not trauma-informed and frankly ignorant

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Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Counterintelligence update:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jim Jordan honoring Dennis Hastert with a decades-long moment of silence.

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Jakob @jakobjarecki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The downside of MLS selling all of their adspace prior to a season kicking off is I know all of the jingles by now. The upside is I never have to see a political ad during a game. I will take that upside every day.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026

This will make kids a lot safer on Halloween. Other cities should do this!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve been a media witness to two federal executions. One was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The other, a week later, was a drug kingpin named Juan Raul Garza. My conclusion after watching both men die: The death penalty should not exist. Period. It fixes nothing, and it erodes our souls.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry, but this is wrong. The state that has the death penalty, the governor whose admin is pushing forward executions despite past issues, and the AG's office defending the efforts all came before today's 5-4 order. You can make the Supreme Court the enemy whenever you want, but facts matter.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Transports don’t communicate in words (most transports don’t; ART did, but ART was ART)

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Bryan @withawhy.mcgill.is · 30/09/2026

My useless super power continues to be picking the slowest line at the grocery store - when they ate arguably the shortest line going in. Please shoot me.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They all looked startled and uncomfortable. Almost as uncomfortable as I did.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

They often defend Griffith's place of respect by claiming some important firsts for him: First film shot in California, first closeup, first editing for suspense (cross-cutting) Yeah, he did none of these things and I have the receipts.

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Jakob @jakobjarecki.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At least Bob Cousy needed the money.

A cigarette ad for kent featuring NBA all star Bob cousy. The ad states "more scientists and educators smoke kent with the micronite filter than any other cigarette". Bob cousy's quote is "Kent is my favorite, too." There is a picture of him smoking and doing a layup.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I could sum up why I’m not a Republican in one quote…

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Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

wow incredible discovery by the Seahawks: passing inside the 10-yard line

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mizer @mizer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s only a world war if there are hostilities in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France otherwise it is a sparked global conflict.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Worth noting Hunter S. Thompson wrote, arguably, the best piece of traditional journalism in his entire career about Salazar's assassination. 'Rumblings in Aztlan' is still important reading. scribd.com/document/422925808/1297809321-Strange-Rumblings-in-Aztlan-small-pdf share.google/vm05Tb8Khzuk...

share.google

Client Challenge

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Serious props to the reporters on this story (they are not active on Bluesky so I'm not tagging them). We are all genuinely lucky that news illustrating what can go wrong when militaries rely on hallucination-prone LLMs got published before something worse happened.

cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And when Dan Sickles, future Civil War general and all-around-rascal, shot Key’s son DC District Attorney Philip Barton Key in broad daylight in front of the White House in 1859, he did the Black population of DC a massive favor as Key used his position to persecute Black DC citizens

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 15/09/2026

New article from me where I propose a Pigovian automation tax to slow down the deployment of AI by companies in a way that also creates an incentive for them to embrace shorter workweeks, lower their prices, boost the incomes of displaced workers, and take a healthy step toward Medicare for All.

scottsantens.substack.com

A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There

How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

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Nick Mangione @mangyone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

lol audible“Fire Saleh” on the broadcast. Yes, I am willingly watching the New York Jets

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noodlesniebauer.bsky.social @noodlesniebauer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ALTUVE is a cheater. That is all.

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Cajsa @cajsa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I live in a building that has 100 apartments & they allow pets. One of my neighbors has organized a group of cat owners. Once a month a woman comes to our apartments and clips our cats' nails. Each of us pays her $10. She does it so quickly and easily. It's almost like magic.

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