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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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Toaster @toaster.codes · 22h
I’m convinced if they put even .01% of the LLM money into writing better documentation and improving findability for open-source code & software it’d have had a much larger and more positive impact.
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Federico Iglesias (FreeGlass) @freeglass.bsky.social · 19h
this is my vent art
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 06/10/2026
This is apparently the main way to get software in Cuba, due to embargos, they move around hard drives to everyone called a "Paquete", and someone made a game about being the Paquete shop: steffenkoehn.com/work/paketown/ I recently saw a talk by the developer at the @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social
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PakeTown - Steffen Köhn
In collaboration with Nestor Sire, ConWiro, Alexander Bley.
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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Lav @lavenderbean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was a great article but I think this part in particular encapsulates what I feel is the real problem with this "what to do with Jacob Geller" discourse. He lied to us all because he wanted to make money as an influential video essayist. Tl;dr most YouTubers are scumbags.
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to just bite the bullet on the fact that, yes, we should gatekeep art, actually we do not owe you access to the sum total of every single professional creative skill that was extracted from humanity and put into the machine, without our consent
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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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Vertex @endvertex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah - Loish has been a prolific and well-respected artist online since I was a kid. Before any modern social media existed. She was one of my first digital art inspirations. She's not using AI. AI trained on HER art.
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The Witch's Bakery - Sunny Lab @sunnylabgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look what showed up in the mail today 🥰
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 01/10/2026
Jacob Geller | Sexual Assault or Sexual Violence | Definite suspension for one semesterMany of you have seen the results of my college Title IX investigation. I can confirm that the findings are true. The records were recently shared without the permission of the victim and, without knowledge of their wishes, I do not want to provide any more potentially identifying details. She and I spoke about it the day after and agreed — I had assaulted her. She later reported this to the university’s Title IX office, I cooperated with the investigation, and I was given the (very mild, I concur) sentence of a semester suspension. 

Suffice to say, it is the greatest regret of my life. I traumatized a brilliant person who trusted me, hurt them in a way I can never undo. 

For more than a decade now, I have attempted to reckon, grow, and recover from the version of myself who did this. I think about it every day. I’ve previously shared this history with many of the people close to me, including early in my relationship with my now-wife, and I’m deeply sorry that this has now hurt so many of you. My continued drive to make myself and the world better is closely tied with the pain I’ve caused.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
nature is beautiful when you're safe and secure with clothes and a job, with access to grocery stores and a living space but for the vast majority of creatures, nature is a survival gauntlet, and only the pathologically curious willingly seek that danger
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It is really important to understand that anyone trying to claim this is a "technological transition" is either deeply misguided or trying to sell you something. What this is, is a deliberate act of harm being done by people with names and addresses.
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Liz Edwards @lizaledwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for
Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
anatomy of a roblox game: 1. take a popular fad genre. survival horror multiplayer, life sim. whatever. 2. Take between 1 and 10 game mechanics from any games that have sold over 100,000 copies on steam in the last 5 years. Reproduce them but worse. 3. Festoon with real money transactions Done!
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Corporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response. @martinelms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Courtesy WaPo.
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The Witch's Bakery - Sunny Lab @sunnylabgames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Three weeks until release! We can hardly wait!! Ever wanted to incarnate Lunne beyond the game? xnemsis on IG made a lovely cosplay guide😍
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc
Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads: 
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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🎃👻BOO Li Jaw-bone👻🦴 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My counterpoint to "if you cared about your work, you would crunch" is if you cared about the quality of your game and your workers, you would give them appropriate time to craft it.
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Once again I am asking why this happens to indie games and not big blockbusters where you can fuck the bear or go to strip clubs. And once again I know the answer
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Kat Lyons @katlyyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title for the first two panels is "Young Me".
In panel one we see a young version of Sarah, the protagonist. She says, "I want to achieve great things".
In panel two we zoom in a little on young Sarah's face. She continues, "An astounding career! An amazing house! World peace!"
The title for the last two panels is "Adult Me".
In panel three we see adult Sarah, looking down.
In panel four we zoom out and see she is in front of a basil plant. She simply says "I want to grow a basil plant".
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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 12/09/2026
hearing a game dev give a talk about indie success say that his wife pays for everything so that he can keep making games full-time has really inspired me to find a wife who pays for everything so i can make indie games full-time
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wtfc4ra.bsky.social @wtfc4ra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
pretty based ig
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Procreate confirms it has NO plans to add generative AI features to its apps. The company continues to stand firmly against integrating generative AI into its creative tools.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/09/2026
Computers are not some unknowable force of nature or entity. They're products and extremely knowable. Treating them as this mystical new form of life is not just illiterate, it's a great way to normalize this attitude of not being able to hold the people who made them accountable for their actions.
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Norbert @norbertmadao.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We'll see how "emotionally bonded" people are to their chatbots when they're no longer subsidized and cost a dollar a message.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today
The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ah, memories of spending a week rigging this character only to find out they'd been cut from the game
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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
they just let you do shit on the computer
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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026
i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
there's a pretty simple connection here 1. humans become good at what they practice doing 2. outsourcing to an AI or even other people, means you have stopped doing the thing 3. if you stop doing the thing, you will stop improving, and, long term, get worse at it (cont.)
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
transnews.network
Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
idk about you but having professionals perform their craft inside value extraction pods, solely for the sake of growing the productivity slop hivemind so that it can erase humanity from future art projects, doesn't exactly strike me as the utopian "ethical AI" they're trying to convince me it is
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 14/08/2026
go on say some shit again about how concern about data centers is overblown
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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 14/08/2026
if you are rich, and want to fund some weird transsexual bullshit, like, listen, you can buy me, I'm so buyable. this is not a shitpost.
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The Witch's Bakery - Sunny Lab @sunnylabgames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Did you know? We’re making a digital cookbook with the recipes from the game and here’s the cover~~ Will you be getting it?🤤
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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if news outlets were really interested in fact-based reporting theyd refuse to use the term “biological sex” and every time it appears in a quote theyd note actual biologists consider the term meaningless and anti-trans attempts to write it into law as fundamentally anti-science
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
in case you were thinking of giving breathedge any of your time, just be aware it's one of the few games I've ever refunded for WILD misogyny
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