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Will Silvia

@wmsilvia.bsky.social
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Data scientist - Denver, CO | Cycling, Photography, Guitar, Angling, Film & Greasy Food. Fix your hearts or die.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
when the minion’s inspiration through the henchmen’s blood shall run / there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/10/2026
After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.
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After Raid of Ilhan Omar's Home and Latest Deadly Shooting, Delia Ramirez Plans Bill to 'Dismantle' DHS
"For 23 years, since its inception, DHS has been utilized by the government to target and persecute those they consider the public enemy," Ramirez said.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 13/10/2026
There's a simple piece of technology that can prevent cyclists and pedestrians from being run over and killed by truck drivers. But few trucks operating on New York City's streets are required to have it — and many of those trucks get an exemption from the city itself. youtube.com/shorts/EWQWy...
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This simple tech could save your life. Why don't all trucks have it? #nyc #truck #safety
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/10/2026
in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mutual aid request: the opportunity of a lifetime has come along to own something incredible for Halloween, to bring joy to myself for once. About me: I have depression and sciatica and a Vitamin D deficiency. Please don't turn your back on me. ❤️💸
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
wow the whole rest of the year?!
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/10/2026
After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.
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An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.
Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This can happen here. This WILL happen here.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
before this is over i will not be surprised if trump cuts down every cherry tree he can find just to spite DC
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
data centers love to fire up diesel generators during peak summer loads and belch air pollution. collectively northern virginia data centers have more than 4,000 generators capable of spitting out 11 GW of power, more than all of the state's natural gas plants combined
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When Toni Morrison said “If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it” I think what she was really getting at was “computer, make video game character have my face”
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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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
COUNTRYS ARENT REAL - GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
A SKELTEN GRABS DA EARTH "COUNTRYS ARENT REAL, BORDER'S ARENT REAL, NOOOO YOU HAVE TO STAY ON YOUR SIDE OF THE LINE, GROW UP!!!!! " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
10:53 PM • 10/4/26 • 1.3M Views
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
it may not be his origin story but “nobody liked my art” is such a common denominator among world-historic assholes
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
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Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professor Frink saying this
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
HE DID SOME OTHER STUFF TOO, BARI.
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rabbi Hillel says that a ball hit off the roof and caught in fair territory is an out Rabbi shammai says what is the difference between a roof and a net? If a ball off the netting is a dead ball then surely a ball off a more solid surface is equally dead Rabbi Hillel says—
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"A man riding a bicycle was struck by a Waymo on 4th & Market in San Francisco today. First responders arrived and treated him at the scene before he was taken to the hospital with injuries." OP: tiktok.tl2active Waymo has reported 39 crashes w cyclists to NHTSA, inc at least 12 w injuries.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Come to Cape May this weekend to see the monarch butterfly migration with me and my beautiful wife for her birthday. Or if you want to get your ass kicked
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And this is why I'm always pushing back at "cyclists have go follow the same rules as drivers." No we don't! Bikes and cars fall under different sets of rules! They might overlap in a lot of ways, but they are different!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026
Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets
The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this works best if you read the caption in elizabeth holmes's voice
the liberty biberty puppet looking at nathan fielder saying, "why would i liberty biberty you?"
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𐇔 BeeVine𐇱𐇳 @succulentubus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE SHOULD IMPROVE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT.

Yet you are trans. Curious.

Enjoy the camps
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's the thing: Hot Springs National Park has a long history with professional baseball. It was a spring training site for many clubs. If you want to do a national park game, that's where it should be, not some place with no tradition attached to it. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don Draper saying “that’s what the Buzzballz is for!”
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PSA: the sweetgreen CEO is speaking at a MAHA summit right before JD Vance and RFK Jr. if you haven’t already, find another slop bowl to replace it with. my personal fav is Naya, which was founded by a Lebanese immigrant
4:25 to 4:55 PM • REAL FOOD AT SCALE
• Michael Boes Chief MAHA Officer, Steak 'n Shake
• Scott Morris Senior Vice President, Private Brands Walmart U.S.
• Jonathan Neman, Co-Founder & CEO, Sweetgreen
• Moderated by Stefanie Spear, Principal Deputy Chief of Staff, HHS
4:55 to 5:00 PM • EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT
• Cheryl Hines Actress & Author
5:00 to 5:30 PM • IN CONVERSATION:
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE & SEC. KENN
(Fireside Chat)
• Vice President JD Vance
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of U.S. Department of Health anc
Human Services
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Andy Beshear has an entire chapter in his new book about backing the LGBTQ community and it's worth a read. He talks about how the anti-trans ads were tested in KY during his election and how vetoing anti-trans legislation didn't hurt his reelection campaign.
However the anti-trans ads had less to do with Kentucky and more to do with the fact that we were in an election. Terry Schilling, the head of the APP, decided to test the ads in our election to determine whether or not the issue could win votes for the Republican Party. Earlier in the summer of 2019, Scholling had partnered with a behavioral science firm to try to find a wedge issue that resonated with suburban voters. That's right. The anti-trans ads did not come out of some firmly held conviction but was a purely political stance. Their research landed on trans athletes, specifically trans women, competing in women's sports. They tested their theory in the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial general election. Although I won, APP considered their test successful, because their research showed the ads delivered thirteen thousand votes for Trump Lite, which made the race tighter than anticipated.You might hask how, in this political climate, I was reelected after vetoing the anti-trans bill. Because people respect authentic faith. The day I vetoed it, I explained my why. I said I believe all children are children of God and that I don't want people picking on these kids. I then countered their anti-trans ads with commercials talking about good jobs, healthcare, roads and bridges, public education, and public safety. The result? The biggest win of my career. So don't tell me the Democratic Party should stop fighting for the rights of all people. Just explain your authentic why, and then get back to focusing on issues that touch all our lives on a daily basis.
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