Archive for May, 2023
Portland, Oregon: What Happened To This Place?
May 3rd, 2023Via: Hood Time:
Federal Reserve Pushes Interest Rates Above 5%, First Time Since 2007
May 3rd, 2023Via: Yahoo Finance: The Federal Reserve raised the target range for its benchmark interest rate by 0.25% on Wednesday while left its options open on future rate hikes.
Bank Failures Visualized
May 3rd, 2023Via: Mike Bostock: Related: The Banking Collapse Of 2023 Is Now Officially Bigger Than The Banking Collapse Of 2008
Nordstrom Shutting Down Stores in Crime-Ridden San Francisco
May 3rd, 2023Changed dynamics… Via: Daily Mail: Nordstrom announced it as closing all of its San Francisco stores, blaming the ‘changed dynamics’ of the city which has seen numerous major chains turn-tail in the face soaring crime. The retailer told employees it would not be renewing its leases at the Westfield Mall or at the Nordstrom Rack […]
IBM Outsourcing Thousands of Jobs to AI
May 2nd, 2023Via: Bloomberg: International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years. Hiring in back-office functions — such as human resources — will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said in an interview. These non-customer-facing roles […]
Could ChatGPT Create a New Religion?
May 2nd, 2023Flashback 2017: Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence Via: Daily Mail: The world is on the verge of a new religion created by artificial intelligence, the historian Yuval Noah Harari has claimed. The academic – known for his bestselling book Sapiens – said software such as ChatGPT could attract worshippers by writing its own […]
‘Godfather of AI’ Quits Google, Talks About Dangers of the Technology
May 2nd, 2023Via: The Verge: Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. Hinton recently quit his job at Google in order to speak freely about the […]
Biden Admin (Finally) Abandons U.S. COVID Vaccine Travel Requirements
May 2nd, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: The reason – simple – after 3 years of increasingly obvious ‘science’, The White House announced the U.S. would be ending the requirement for non-U.S. citizens to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition of entering the country. The vaccine requirements will end May 11, when the Biden administration is officially […]
Attorney General of Texas Opens Investigation into Gain-of-Function Research and Misrepresentations by Covid-19 Vaccine Manufacturers
May 1st, 2023At the link, they filed this under Consumer Protection/Scams. Maybe they need an Atrocities category. Via: Attorney General of Texas: Attorney General Paxton launched an investigation into the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson concerning whether they engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public about doing so. Paxton is also investigating whether […]
