Fyrd (@alexis.deveria.com)

@alexis.deveria.com Oct 11, 2026, 5:25 PM

You're gonna be...busy

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

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,…

@alexis.deveria.com Oct 4, 2026, 5:25 AM

Just watched two horror movies in a row in which a guy couldn't believe someone had never heard of Bill Murray

@alexis.deveria.com Oct 3, 2026, 7:08 PM

Nutritional yeast is similarly great but suffers from terrible naming

@nadyavoynich.com Oct 2, 2026, 10:04 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

Just hypnotised by this cute web crawler

#buildinpublic #webcrawling #CSS #JavaScript

@gavadon.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:17 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.

Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name

Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "

Closeup of the text for the photo that says

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp

@patrickbrosset.com Oct 2, 2026, 6:44 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

Thanks, you all, for your responses. I’ve had time to think more about this, read up more on the topic, and did some research. The result ➡️ Opening the can of tooltips, a blog post on our proposal to implement fully accessible and customizable built-in tooltips on the web.

@radishharmers.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 5:00 AMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it.

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 30, 2026, 5:30 AM

Google wtf man, you used to be good at this. What is this.

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 26, 2026, 2:11 AM

I too have played games in my life
my9games.net/en

(a lot of these I played the full series of but I started with the first ones)

Grid of games: Lemmings, Mortal Kombat, Civilization, Doom, X-Wing, Dr. Mario, Resident Evil, Don't Starve Together

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 25, 2026, 8:33 PM

Andor's on there

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:36 AMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.appSep 24, 2026, 8:12 PM

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 23, 2026, 10:36 PM

Yeah, IE7 and below (not sure when it was introduced, IE4 according to some source)

Horrible details on this well -named site:
haslayout.net/haslayout.html

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 23, 2026, 8:19 PM

hasLayout returns!!

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 20, 2026, 4:04 PM

I'm glad I figured this out because it was driving me crazy

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 20, 2026, 4:04 PM

The reason that in How to Train Your Dragon the adults have a Scottish accent while the kids have Americans accents is because the Vikings sailed to Scotland in 793 but only later around 1000 went to America

@patrickbrosset.com Sep 18, 2026, 3:47 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

Customizable selects are so 2025.
Now is the time for styleable multi-thumb range controls!

Great work by @utilitybend.com and Open UI.
The <rangegroup> element is being prototyped in Chromium by our team.

Can't wait to play with it, which you can do with: brechtdr.github.io/enhanced-ran...

Radial range control with 2 thumbs, allowing to select a range between 0 and 100. The selected range is 25 to 75.

@tekknonerd.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 7:17 PMReposted by @alexis.deveria.com

Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

NCC-60147-working on comms@ncc-60205.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 11:08 AM

someone animate voyager walking with those tiny legs please

a model Voyager with landing gear extended, source unknown

@alexis.deveria.com Sep 18, 2026, 2:49 AM

I like the implication that she fit all 98 into her suitcase