by Jeffrey Tucker, Daily Reckoning:
On March 6, 2020, the mayor of Austin, Texas, canceled the biggest tech and arts trade show in the world, South by Southwest, only a week before hundreds of thousands were to gather in the city.
In an instant, with the stroke of a pen, it was all gone: hotel reservations, flight plans, performances, exhibitors and all the hopes and dreams of thousands of merchants in the town. Economic impact: a loss of $335 million in revenue at least. And that was just to the city alone, to say nothing of the broader impact.
A high-ranking Israel Defense Forces commander said in June that Israel was concerned over the risks of weapons provided by the United States and other Western nations to Ukraine ending up in the hands of Israel’s foes in the Middle East, especially Hamas.
Some detailed pieces on this sudden war (which may well help bring on a vastly bigger conflagration) conjointly raise some questions that we all had better face, whatever side we’re on (if any)
The Biden administration is continuing its support for pronoun madness with a recently published proposed workplace harassment rule that threatens legal ramifications for employers who are unwilling to play along with people’s preferred pronouns.
Canada is taking steps towards potentially intrusive regulation of artificial intelligence as it pertains to its application in search and social media services. The government’s intentions have been revealed, which includes AI application way beyond the realm of generative AI similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Industry giants such as Google and Facebook, who utilize AI for search results, translation provisions, and customer taste recognition respectively, are among the contenders lined up in the regulatory intent with the pro-censorship government intent on having a say on how these algorithms work.
