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
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Likes the web. Made caniuse.com and does other web stuff at Adobe. He/him Also at @Fyrd@front-end.social
Just watched two horror movies in a row in which a guy couldn't believe someone had never heard of Bill Murray
Just hypnotised by this cute web crawler #buildinpublic #webcrawling #CSS #JavaScript
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.
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.
Patrick - Opening the can of tooltips
Tooltips seem simple, until you look closer. The title attribute can't be styled and isn't accessible to everyone, while custom tooltips come with plenty of complexity. What would it take to build a n...
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I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it.
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)
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.app · 2w agoover 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
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
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...
Love me a good animated story / infographic article (not sure what to actually call it)
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoFor decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony
Who are these people that need 25 pillows on their hotel bed. Why not just have one single perfect pillow that happens to match the one I have at home.
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
So I thought I'd be staying in a hotel in Geneva but it's actually a place right outside Geneva which happens to be France. Now my mind is a mess because I'm in France instead of Switzerland but also the difference is negligible geographically speaking?
Wait do people put milk in their coffee just so it's cool enough to start drinking immediately when they order it? I like mine black and usually make it at home but I'm starting to suspect the milk thing is just a clever trick so you don't have to wait 20 minutes before you can start drinking it
Last night I saw a musical that I'm fairly certain was largely written by AI. Incredibly derivative, one-dimensional characters, sudden, odd behaviors, predictable plot progression, just...oof, painful. But the performances were fairly good and most other people seemed to enjoy it? So weird.
Interaction with my Scottish B&B host: Her: If there's anything in particular you'd like for breakfast just ask! Me: Would you happen to have Marmite? Her: That's poison. If I got that I'd just have to throw it out. "Marmite". Since 1979 no guest has ever asked for Marmite. "Marmite" Me: ☹️
This movie is the source of Princess Leia's Shadows of the Empire look.
Worst Movies Ever@worstmovies.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Time Guardian (1987) TMDB score 48% In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to
I'm experiencing Edinburgh Fringe for the first time and it's like being transported to an alternate world where the only form of entertainment is live theater
The “We must adapt more memes into movies!” people had better be coming for Spiders Georg. Spiders Georg is blockbuster material.
"average person has 3 musical children" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has only 0.05 musical child. Von Trapp Georg, who lives in Austria & has seven musical children, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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