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Claim: wealth tax and income tax are interchangeable via a conversion about 20:1. A 1% wealth tax equates to ~20% income tax when applying a 5% risk-free return; example with $100 shows both end at $104. Politicians underestimate this, since adding 1% wealth tax would raise total marginal rates (e.g., in the median US case to ~61.75%). The rule uses risk-free return and also applies to capital gains; cap on federal deduction means some interaction with state taxes.
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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as US director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, citing her husband’s bone‑cancer diagnosis and saying she cannot in good conscience ask him to face the fight alone while she remains in the demanding role. The resignation takes effect June 30; principal deputy director Aaron Lukas will become acting DNI. Trump praised her work; Gabbard, a Trump ally, had been a key figure in U.S. intelligence since his 2025 White House return, amid actions on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
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TechCrunch reports Google’s new AI-summary Search de-emphasizes traditional results. A notable edge case appears when searching for “disregard”: Google returns a largely blank page with a single Merriam-Webster link buried in space, offering little value. By contrast, Bing provides more usable results for the same query. The author, a long-time tech journalist, notes this as a rare instance where Bing outperforms Google in search results.
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Trump Mobile confirmed that customer data — names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order identifiers — was exposed to the open internet. The company said there was no breach of its network or systems and that the exposure stemmed from a third-party platform provider (unnamed). It is investigating and evaluating whether to notify affected customers. No evidence yet that content or financial information spilled online. The disclosure followed reports by two YouTubers that researchers found data publicly accessible.
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Open Culture reviews Ollie Bye’s eight-minute animated map of Christianity’s global spread, from the Middle East outward to all continents (Antarctica has eight churches). Rather than a single religion, the map shows a panorama of Christianities—Nicene, Celtic, Chalcedonian, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, and more. Its enduring adaptability comes from non-ethnic universality, core narratives of sin, salvation, and rebirth, and relentless translation and missionary work, allowing Christianity to assimilate into Greco-Roman, Celtic, and East Asian contexts and flourish as both underground and state faiths.
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Forge is a Forth-inspired, stack-based language for building websites. Authors create words (like h1, p) to emit HTML, and compose pages like 'Hello, World!' with reusable components and microformats. A site is a collection of pages, a word library, and a stylesheet; a single forge binary compiles .forge files to HTML. On navigation, a service worker fetches the source and compiles it in the browser, giving SSR for crawlers and a SPA-like client rendering. It can persist state to localStorage or a server-side append-only JSONL log, e.g., a like button that logs to 'likes:demo'.
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Japanese firms diversify because they are organized as bundles of complementary practices, a J-firm, not the focused H-firm. Milgrom and Roberts show post‑Fordist improvements—quality, flexibility, cross‑trained workers, rapid changeovers—are valuable only together. Masahiko Aoki adds that horizontal coordination, lifetime employment, insider boards, cross-holdings, and main-bank financing sustain such bundles. This enables deep diversification (Toto’s e-chucks, Kyocera, Yamaha) and resilience in moderate volatility and catch‑up growth. Bundles are hard to change, so Japan excels at refinement but struggles with paradigm shifts like AI/software, unlike Western firms.
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AI pricing is shifting away from flat-rate models as costs rise and capacity tightens. Cheaper inference expands demand, so total spend grows rather than falls. GPU/memory costs surged (HBM up and NVIDIA VR200 BOM up ~95%), with CoWoS bottlenecks. Firms like Microsoft, Uber, and GitHub are abandoning flat plans. Pricing will move to per-action, credits/prepaid, or hybrid models (base seats with included credits). Per-seat pricing becomes untenable; products must target use cases that justify the inference cost or face margin erosion.
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Deno 2.8 is the biggest minor release yet, boosting performance, Node compatibility, and developer tooling. Highlights include: deno audit with auto-fix; deno ci for reproducible installs; deno pack, deno transpile, and deno publish; cross-platform npm installs with --os/--arch; production installs via --prod; hoisted node_modules; catalog: protocol; loader/module loader hooks for custom resolution/transform; deno compile framework-detection and automatic build for Next.js, Astro, etc.; improved Node.js type-checking via lib.node; OffscreenCanvas and Geometry Interfaces; expanded OpenTelemetry exporters; per-test timeouts and function coverage in tests; and substantial performance wins.
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Superset is a desktop code editor that orchestrates multiple CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, etc.) in parallel across isolated git worktrees on macOS. It eliminates context-switching by running 10+ agents concurrently, isolates tasks per worktree, and provides a built-in terminal, diff viewer, and one-click editor handoff. It supports any terminal-based agent, offers workspace presets, and monitors agent status with notifications. Setup involves cloning the repo, configuring env vars, installing dependencies with Bun, and running in dev or building for desktop. Licensed under Elastic License 2.0.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus reflects on Musk v. Altman, the Oakland trial over OpenAI’s nonprofit-to-for-profit pivot. Musk contends OpenAI misused charity to fund a for‑profit behemoth; he seeks reversal and damages. After a two-hour jury verdict, the court found his claim time-barred by the statute of limitations. The article casts the case as a spectacle that exposed personal animus and performative grievances rather than real AI governance answers. It argues that governance of artificial intelligence is a structural, collective challenge—beyond the missteps of Altman or Musk.
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Alberta will hold a binding provincial referendum on Oct. 19 to decide whether to remain in Canada or pursue independence, after separatist pressure and petitions for both sides. Premier Danielle Smith says she will vote to stay in Canada, emphasizing decisions should be by Albertans, not the courts, though a court ruling previously halted petition verification. If a clear majority backs separation, Alberta would enter lengthy negotiations with Ottawa under the Clarity Act before any divorce. Polls currently suggest most Albertans favor remaining in Canada.
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AI is transforming programming but won’t replace human developers; it multiplies the impact of skilled engineers while less-experienced coders may struggle without architectural thinking. See AI as a tool, not an autonomous agent—like Iron Man’s suit rather than a robot. The piece cites Matt Perry boosting productivity with AI and warns against over-crediting AI. Also promotes a new course, Whimsical Animations, updates to his platform, and invites reader feedback.
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Valve removed the free horror game Beyond The Dark from Steam after malware was found to steal personal data and cryptocurrency. The malware was hidden in UnityPlayer.dll, and the game appears to have hijacked an existing Steam title (Rodent Race) by compromising the developer’s account and rebranding it. It ran in the background, targeting cryptocurrency wallet extensions (e.g., MetaMask) and sending data to external servers. Players who downloaded it should delete the game, run antivirus scans, change passwords, and monitor wallets.
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Cutting headcount to absorb AI costs is a short-term trade with long-term consequences. The real value in teams is their knowledge of how the business operates; AI multiplies judgment when humans remain in the loop. A sustainable model uses AI to remove low-skill friction and expand high-skill work, letting experienced teams manage more, with AI handling volume and humans guiding depth. Those who invest in training and keep teams together will be more durable; those who replace workers risk eroding competitive advantage.
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Anna’s Archive is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving all human knowledge and making it freely accessible, even to machines. It notes two goals: preservation and universal access. Data can be downloaded in bulk via GitLab, torrents (including aa_derived_mirror_metadata), and a Torrents JSON API; individual files via a donation-linked API and later search tools. It asks LLMs and others with payment capabilities to donate—offering faster SFTP access, enterprise options, or Monero donations—to sustain open, machine-accessible knowledge for humans and robots.
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ShadowCat is an offline, single-file HTML page for moving data between two devices via QR codes. It targets phones with cameras but dead radios (BLE/NFC). Features: Generate (encode text), Scan, Send file (chunk size, FPS, ECC), Receive file (camera). Protocol uses a header with total/filename/size/crc and data chunks; receiver deduplicates by CRC and validates with CRC32, then shows a Download when complete. Notes: serve over HTTPS/localhost to access the camera; iOS requires HTTPS; LAN via python -m http.server. If decoding fails, adjust chunk size/FPS or ECC.
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