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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18h

the machine that automatically commits fraud did that. why would we be held responsible, just for building a machine that automates the commission of white collar crimes?

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 18h

“It’s not like we hold people who commit organized systemic white collar crime responsible for their actions, why would we do it to machines *built* by people?”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it

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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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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 16h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

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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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🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That’s the thing about systemic violence. You’re part of that system whether you like it or not. You’re gonna be victim or perpetrator unless you actively jam the gears of that machine

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spencer @spencer7-5.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is really annoying that all discussions of “restorative justice” have centered around a gaming youtuber and not a woman on death row with two botched executions

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess the lesson is that forced enfranchisement w/o improvement either the median voter or median voter access to decent political/social/policy coverage that they'll actually learn from is worse than our random enfranchisement model under the same conditions.

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Twisted Spinster @danceswithpugs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Mitchells Vs The Machines. The mall scene with the giant Furby has to be one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen.

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

disability rights (or the lack of them) will be your rights one day. and yes, I say this to absolutely scare you into thinking about disability. What rights will you want? Think about that.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Thaddeus is a girl's name 🏳️‍⚧️ @thaddeus.zone · 04/10/2026

the actual Great Replacement is tech bros replacing the economy with these snake oil factories

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I watched it closely because I thought it would tell me where we were. And it did. And no you don’t want to know.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

ME: *muttering about deadlines* STEPKID: Ah, I see they’ve moved from ambient horror to jumpscare.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

do not be the person who fucks about this

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Even more depressing than the knowledge that congress is now overrun by effective altruist and overall TESCREAL cult member staffers, is the number of billionaires in these cults that are going to be created by the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas

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Lætus @bajamothblast.vanadiel.network · 02/10/2024

now that it's october im legally allowed to post this

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So many. So many . And of different ages and generations . we need to make it fiscally responsible, morally sustainable and psychologically durable enough for ethical ambiverts to be in media and government again

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinals 3 It's a pair of dissolvable beauties as rare and complicated #Julienite is against ubiquitous and straightforward #Halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of close-ups of minerals bright blue julienite in radiating fan shapes within a dark rock and clear perfect cubes of halite suspended in clear liquid, tiny bubbles hanging onto some of the crystals

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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Wylder 🏳️‍⚧️♿ $263/$800 Needed TODAY @wylder.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

Cis folks need to shame other cis folks more for being terfs, if they want to actually protect kids.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

chronic fatigue (now ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome,, now long covid many of these predominant in women so many illnesses that could have been treated, studied, and offered people relief earlier if propaganda hadn't convinced everyone they were fake.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He’s been doing this shit for 20 years and the schtick is getting real tired. You can’t promise ‘a city on Mars in 20 years‘ for over 20 years

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thomaslthomson3.bsky.social @thomaslthomson3.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The wave of eugenics bullshit that the society-wide commitment to pretending that COVID was "over" in like 2022 unleashed, has served as one hell of a permission structure to allow SO MANY people's ableist bullshit to just pour out.

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bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Portland/PDX/Multnomah County folks - any good date ideas in the area you've been on or thought about lately? Bonus points for something off the beaten path, but not required. Now that I've got someone to take I am now hungry for good ideas :)

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 It's blue skies ahead as multicoloured cubes of #Halite are up against the bubbly cool-toned #Chrysocolla. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of seafoam green minerals. One one side, translucent sea foam-green cubes on a crust of milky-white crystals. On the other, bobby aqua-green milky-translucent crystals perched on a grainy grassy-green base rock

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey, let's temporarily lower prices for most of the country at the expense of New England and the rest of the world until we drain our PADD 1A entirely and then have to go hat-in-hand back to the world market where everyone is really mad at us. It'll be GREAT!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the additional costs of homeownership.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 22/09/2026

great contextualization from @melodyschreiber.com

Kennedy only mentioned the measles outbreak once in a speech spanning nearly an hour and a half at an anti-vaccine conference on Thursday. He noted only that deaths from measles are headline news and he asked that severe side effects and deaths from vaccines get the same attention. About one to two people in a million experience severe side effects from vaccines, while with measles one in five people are hospitalized and one to three in 1,000 die.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/09/2026

Anyway, an old colleague at NDI started a 'state capture in America' newsletter to document the transition and aftermath, as Trump returned to the presidency last year — and ooof, how right that frame was.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

it will never not break my brain that the pandemic gave us a *better understanding of airborne pathogens* AND worse collective behavior around them in institutions

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