Manic Pixie Soccer Mom (@meganc.bsky.social)

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 12:45 AM

Anyway, it's funny that they tried to launch the "Talarico in rehab" smear job on the same day that Ukraine knocked out all the Russian bots.

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:12 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:05 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

The University of Arizona used to have Yandex-made delivery robots & had to trash them when someone realized they were probably spying.

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 7:12 PM

@kategodart.northsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:08 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

wait wait wait. did the ukraine just show us how you deal with these things?

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:27 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

sometimes I think that a good chunk of humanity's problems boil down "people fucking love joining cults"

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:26 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

Dregs of Hurricane Rachel coming for Tucson

the Catalina mountains being covered with gray rain clouds; there are a few green trees/plants in the foreground

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:05 PM

The University of Arizona used to have Yandex-made delivery robots & had to trash them when someone realized they were probably spying.

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

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,…

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:34 PM

boil down *to*

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:27 PM

sometimes I think that a good chunk of humanity's problems boil down "people fucking love joining cults"

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 4:26 PM

Dregs of Hurricane Rachel coming for Tucson

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:22 AM

Popping in on a Saturday night to state for the record that people who play scary Halloween pranks on their children AND record them AND post the videos of them screaming & crying in terror on the internet are going straight to hell.

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:42 PM

😲

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:17 PM

I'm sure many are very nice! But I bet the mean ones know their way around online smear campaigns . . .

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:47 PM

I need this energy from every Dem candidate. Y'all need to find someone who was banned from, like, Taylor Swift fan forums for being too mean & hire them to manage your campaigns.

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 7:12 PM

When I organically discovered that this meme was from an old X-Files episode I screamed as if I were an archeologist who'd just discovered Pompeii.

the MEN (Ominous music) meme, showing a men's bathroom sign with [Ominous music] in the closed captioning text at the bottom. It's from The X-Files episode The Host s2e2 BY THE WAY

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:12 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

21. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) me: honestly she's probably better off in the bunker my husband: no way. You do whatever you can to get out of the bunker me: you think that because you would suck at living in a bunker. I would rock at it.

promo for 10 Cloverfield Lane, showing at small house at the top of the image and lead actors John Goodman & Mary Elizabeth Winstead "underground" beneath the house. Movie title is in white text on the right side

@meganc.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 4:07 PM

I know this is a Gen X take, but how much affirmation do these people think is normal? Like at some point you have to learn to make peepee in the potty without anyone praising you for it.

@courtneymilan.com Oct 10, 2026, 2:25 PMReposted by @meganc.bsky.social

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.comOct 10, 2026, 1:14 AM

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

nytimes.comAnthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.