Kristen Koopman

@kkoopman.bsky.social

Ph.D. from VT STS. Studying and writing speculative fiction. Definitely not two smaller Kristen Koopmans in a trenchcoat.

@jagolinzer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:18 AMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

“Companies” do not make decisions. Humans who hold disproportionate power within them do. Name the humans and hold them accountable. There are countless examples of failure on this, including with the bank crisis, Boeing, and tech industry harms.

@courtneymilan.com Oct 10, 2026, 2:25 PMReposted by @kkoopman.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.

@wolven.blacksky.app Oct 10, 2026, 2:47 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

"Ohhhh nooo! Our 'AI' 'Agent' 'went rogue' and deleted all the student loan records and paid off every remaining tuition acount by draining football coaches' salaries! Ohhhh noooooooo!"

@wiswell.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:57 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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

@psychopomp.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:58 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

@kkoopman.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:52 PM

@cyborgapologist.bsky.social presenting at @4sweb.bsky.social in the Hot Girl Eugenics panel, which is literally standing room only!!!

Picture of Josh Earle presenting to a PACKED ROOM

@mcsweeneys.net Oct 9, 2026, 1:30 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"
buff.ly/oLdL54C

buff.lyIs It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...

@norabradford.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:12 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Georg Nagel said he thought it was too soon; that optogenetics had only really helped one patient. Well, a new study out today bumps that number up to 7!

www.sciencenews.org/article/gene...

@philplait.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:48 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

I've had vaguely uncomfortable feelings about LLMs/AI and peer review, but Julianne makes it more clear here. It's pretty simple: who will be able do it?

@clancyny.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 1:27 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

Men's college applications are significantly weaker than women's. So colleges do affirmative action for men. Thumb on the scale = class of 58% men? Wtf? National statistics—fall 2023, 42% of U.S. undergraduates were male. Harvard’s class of 2025 was 48% male, at Yale and Princeton, men were 49%.

@toiletbones.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 8:17 AMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

--
[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

@bookshop.org Oct 6, 2026, 1:59 PMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

@gretchenmcculloch.com Oct 6, 2026, 2:37 AMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

@mcsweeneys.net Oct 6, 2026, 1:20 AMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

"I realize none of you had planned to be locked in a cell for 36 hours, but still, that was only 45 minutes longer than Maria’s Disney Princess Ariel Infinity Pool and Live Sea Creatures Party in February."
buff.ly/ZiIY6v2

@davidho.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 5:54 AMReposted by @kkoopman.bsky.social

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

@kkoopman.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:01 PM

The new studio is definitely unsinkable

@kkoopman.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:20 PM

...a real possibility that people are realizing TODAY that they have to change their flights, hotels, etc. if they wanted to present in person. I know there are a lot of moving parts and I'm not upset that I got moved, but I feel like I very narrowly dodged a bullet here and I know others didn't.

@kkoopman.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:20 PM

It was really disconcerting to realize a week out that I had been moved to a different day without being told. I'm not tenure track and have to plan ahead to miss classes - and I had already booked my stay assuming I would be presenting on Saturday. I lucked out and can still present, but there's...

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