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The non-exodus of California billionaires
The media says they’re fleeing a wealth tax. Except, they’re not.
Nary a day has passed of late that hasn’t seen stories about the billionaires’ flight from California, lest they be subjected to a proposed wealth tax that hasn’t yet gathered the required signatures to qualify for the ballot. The fact that there is no billionaires’ flight from California hasn’t impeded the flow of such tales.
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=28f7241796510e838db4a1384ae1279d.3942&s=a25f328e944fec8e9462e7b6d554a892

With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs?
*yes, SF YIMBY endorsed the two sponsors of this ordinance, Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood
https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-soma-store-ban-drug-crime-deterrence/

S.F. supervisors vote to expand late-night store ban to parts of SoMa  
Board of Supervisors committee elevated a proposed store-closure ordinance, following public support from some community stakeholders

AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

Gas and LNG expert Anne-Sophie Corbeau: "People really need to turn down their thermostats. We're heading for the Mother of all energy crises. Refilling Europe's gas storages could become the drama of the year."
Even more so for the Netherlands, where the filling level has now been run down to below 7%, I would add.
In Tijd.be, by Tobe Steel

Ryan Coogler's Sinners breaks the Academy Awards' nomination record with 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14, held by three films (Clayton Davis/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/sinners-oscars-nominations-record…

'Sinners' Breaks Oscar Nominations Record With 16 Nods
"Sinners" breaks the all-time Oscar nominations record with 16 nods.

It's hard to approach the topic of Persona and all their partners without just falling into the suggestion of telling everyone to self-host their life online, it's probably gonna be what everyone needs to do eventually but in a way it's a platform-wide version of when we were leaving Twitter.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

China investigates top general Zhang Youxia in rare purge of senior military leaders https://therecord.media/china-investigates-top-general-purge-senior-military-leaders

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata