Texas Bill Would Let Residents Sue Out-of-State Abortion Pill Providers

 A measure that would allow nearly any private citizen to sue out-of-state prescribers and others who send abortion pills into Texas has won first-round approval in the state House.

It would be the first law of its kind in the country and part of the ongoing effort by abortion opponents to fight the broad use of the pillsopens in a new tab or window, which are used in the majority of abortions in the U.S. -- including in states where abortion is illegal.

The bill passed in the House on Thursday and could receive a final vote in the Republican-dominated state Senate next week. If that happens, it would be up to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, to decide whether to sign it into law.

Here are things to know about the Texas legislation and other legal challenges to abortion pills.

The Texas Measure Is a New Approach to Crack Down on Pills

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed state abortion bans, pills -- most often a combination of mifepristoneopens in a new tab or window and misoprostol -- were the most common way to obtain abortion access.

Now, with Texas and 11 other states enforcing bans on abortion at all stages of pregnancy, and four more that bar most of them after the first 6 weeks or so of gestation, the pills have become an even more essential way abortion is provided in the U.S.

"We believe that women need to be protected from the harms of chemical abortion drugs," said Amy O'Donnell, a spokesperson for Texas Alliance for Life, which supports the bill. "They harm women and their intent is to harm unborn babies."

Under the bill, providers could be ordered to pay $100,000. But only the pregnant woman, the man who impregnated her, or other close relatives could collect the entire amount. Anyone else who sues could receive only $10,000, with the remaining $90,000 going to charity.

The measure echoes a 2021 Texas lawopens in a new tab or window that uses the prospect of lawsuits from private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion once fetal activity can be detected -- at about 6 weeks' gestation. The state also has a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy.

The pill bill also contains provisions intended to keep those with a history of family violence from collecting and barring disclosure of women's personal or medical information in court documents.

Anna Rupani, executive director of Fund Texas Choice, a group that helps women access abortion, including by traveling to other states for it, said the law is problematic.

"It establishes a bounty hunting system to enforce Texas' laws beyond the state laws," she said.

Law Could Open the Door to Further Battles Between States

While most Republican-controlled states have restricted or banned abortions in the last 3 years, most Democratic-controlled states have taken steps to protect access.

And at least eight states have laws that seek to protect prescribers who send abortion pills to women in states where abortion is banned.

There are already legal battles that could challenge those, both involving the same New York doctor.

Louisiana has brought criminal charges against Maggie Carpenteropens in a new tab or window, MD, accusing her of prescribing the pills to a pregnant minor. And a Texas judge has ordered her to pay a $100,000 penalty plus legal fees for violating that state's ban on prescribing abortion medication by telemedicine. New York officials are refusing to extradite her to Louisianaopens in a new tab or window or to enter the Texas civil judgement.

If the Texas law is adopted, it's certain to trigger a new round of legal battles over whether laws from one state can be enforced in another.

"Its very different from what's come before it," said Greer Donley, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies the legal landscape of abortion.

Two Key States Seek to Get Into Anti-Mifepristone Legal Battle

Texas and Florida -- the second and third most populous states in the country -- asked a court last week to let them join a lawsuit filed last year by the Republican attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to make mifepristone harder to accessopens in a new tab or window.

Those states contend -- as many abortion opponents do -- that mifepristone is too risky to be prescribed via telehealth and that the FDA should roll back approvals and tighten access.

The U.S. Supreme Courtopens in a new tab or window last year unanimously rejected a case making similar arguments, saying the anti-abortion doctors behind it lacked the legal standing to take up the case.

This week, more than 260 reproductive health researchers from across the nation submitted a letter to the FDA affirming the safety record of the abortion medication mifepristone. In the letter, the researchers urged the FDA not to impose new restrictions on the drug and to make decisions based on "gold-standard science."

The FDA is also facing a lawsuit from a Hawaii doctoropens in a new tab or window and healthcare associations arguing that it restricts mifepristone too much.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/abortion/117229

'Parkinson's Largely Is a Preventable Disease' — New book

On policy, pesticides, and what people can do to curb Parkinson's risk

Parkinson's disease is not a natural consequence of aging; it is an unnatural one, maintain neurologists Ray Dorsey, MD, of Atria Health in New York City, and Michael Okun, MD, of the University of Florida in Gainesville.

"It is not just found in older men. It affects everyone. It is not predominantly due to genetics. Rather, chemicals in our food, water, and air have created this largely man-made disease," Dorsey and Okun write in their new book, "The Parkinson's Planopens in a new tab or window."

"These chemicals are all around us, and none are necessary."

"The Parkinson's Plan" opens with the story of two women -- Jana Reed, MD, and Sara Whittingham, MD -- one an emergency medicine physician, the other an anesthesiologist. Both were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in their mid-40s.

MedPage Today spoke with Dorsey about the changing face of Parkinson's disease and what "The Parkinson's Plan" aims to accomplish. An edited version of that discussion follows.

How does Parkinson's disease seem different now?

Dorsey: When Dr. Parkinson described the condition in 1817, he described six individuals with the disease: at least five were men, and all were over the age of 50.

The image of Parkinson's disease that's been taught -- and likely still is taught -- is that it is a disease that affects older men, and it's principally due to aging and perhaps genetics.

Jana Reed and Sara Whittingham are the new faces of Parkinson's disease. They're both women. They both served in the U.S. military. They both were in Afghanistan. They both were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in their 40s, within a month of each other.

In both cases, as we tell through the book, the likely principal cause of their Parkinson's disease is not within them, but outside of them, in their environment.

It's a chemical that very few neurologists are taught about, trichloroethylene [TCE]. This chemical and perchloroethylene [PCE], commonly used in dry cleaning, might be the most important causes of Parkinson's.

Researchers have shown increased Parkinson's risk in the Camp Lejeune studyopens in a new tab or window where TCE and PCE contaminated the Marine base in North Carolina. Marines who served there when they were young, in their 20s, had a 70% increased risk of developing Parkinson's 34 years later compared to Marines who served at Camp Pendleton.

TCE is everywhere. It's used to degrease metal and decaffeinate coffee. Ten million Americans worked with it. As for Sara Whittingham -- she may have not directly worked with it, but she was an aircraft maintenance officer, and her job was to oversee the cleaning and degreasing of jet engines. One of the big cleaning agents is trichloroethylene. She was likely inhaling it in the area where she was working.

What prompted this book?

Dorsey: Parkinson's largely is a preventable disease. The rise in Parkinson's disease is happening on our watch. We wrote a plan to prevent and treat the disease so future generations can be spared.

As a neurologist, I can't think of a better gift to give than a world where your disease is no longer there, or is extraordinarily rare. We've seen that with polio. We've seen that with other diseases. I think we can do that for Parkinson's.

We set goals for Parkinson's for the next 10 years: we said by 2035, we should reach goals of zero, 10, and 100. We should see zero percent growth in the incidence of Parkinson's, a 10-fold increase in research funding and the percentage spent on prevention, and 100% access to levodopa.

If you look at Parkinson's research dollars, only two pennies of every dollar are spent on trying to prevent the disease. There are houses that sell for more money than we, as a society, spend on trying to prevent Parkinson's disease.

We have not answered the bell. That's a failure of science and a failure of funding agencies.

As neurologists, our calling card is that we figure out why people get diseases. We need to figure out why people have Parkinson's disease so we can take action to prevent it and treat it most effectively.

What does "The Parkinson's Plan" recommend?

Dorsey: We give you the Parkinson's prevention pyramid: What can we do as a society? What can we do in our communities? What can we do as individuals?

The first thing is to measure the disease. What gets measured gets managed.

Parkinson's is one of the fastest-growing brain diseases in the world. If we want to prevent it, we need to first see how many people are getting it and track that over time to see if we're making progress or not. We need to find the areas of the country with high rates, with large numbers of new cases, so we can take targeted actions.

Second, we need to ban some of the most toxic chemicals. The EPA banned TCE and PCE last year. It looks like that ban is going to be put in place. In 2021, they banned chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that used to be found on over half of apples in the United States, but the manufacturer sued and the fate of that is uncertain.

We also need to ban paraquat. Over 50 countries, including China, have banned it, but the United States has not.

What else can we do?

Dorsey: We give 25 suggestions about what individuals can do to perhaps slow the rate of the disease: Wash your produce, preferably your organic produce. Avoid dry cleaners that use perchloroethylene. Use an air purifier if you live in a heavily polluted area. Add a water purifier to your home.

We also give suggestions for communities. Why are we allowing pesticides to be sprayed on kids' playgrounds and schools? Many pesticides are nerve toxins. We should find that socially unacceptable and we should take actions to address that. And golf coursesopens in a new tab or window -- why can't we ask golf courses to use less toxic pesticides?

We need more research to prevent and slow Parkinson's. There are studies that suggest that among people with Parkinson's disease, those exposed to high levels of air pollution are at greater risk for being hospitalized. There are studies that show exercise as a potential way to slow the rate of progression of the disease.

Some studies have robust evidence, some have very limited evidence -- but we're not even studying many of the most important questions out there.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/parkinsonsdisease/117235

'Nonalcoholic Beer, Mocktails Can Help People Stay Sober, but Not for Everyone'

 Several years into her sobriety, Logan Denzer decided to try nonalcoholic beer and mocktails

opens in a new tab or window while others around her drank real boozeopens in a new tab or window.

"A lot of people feel out of place" when everyone else is imbibing, said the 27-year-old from Los Angeles, who considers these beverages "an excellent solution."

Millions of Americans agree -- including others recovering from addiction, people trying to cut down on their drinkingopens in a new tab or window, and the rising number of young adultsopens in a new tab or window forgoing alcohol altogether.

They've fueled a booming industry. Recent research shows that drinking less, or nothing at allopens in a new tab or window, is a much healthier way to go. Alcohol has been linked to cancers, injuries, and a host of other problems.

Still, health experts say nonalcoholic beverages aren't for everyone, especially if they might trigger cravings for alcohol. These so-called NA drinks are meant to mimic alcohol in many ways, such as appearance, smell, and taste.

"It's important to recognize that these are probably not one-size-fits-all products," said researcher Molly Bowdring, PhD, of Stanford University. "You might see peers or friends or family members use them and have no problem with them, but it really comes back to your own individual experience."

'Zebra Striping' Helps Cut Back on Booze

Retail sales of nonalcoholic wine, beer, and spirits surged to $823 million last year. That's according to market research firm NielsenIQ, which says more than nine in 10 NA customers also buy alcohol.

"They're wanting to not necessarily drink during the week, or they're wanting to switch out at a particular occasion," said Marcos Salazar of the Adult Non-Alcoholic Beverage Association. "So they may have an alcoholic beverage and then an adult nonalcoholic beverage. That's called zebra striping ... and it kind of extends the night."

Retiree Ann Kopp Mitchell, who recently tasted various NA beverages at Monday Morning Bottle Shop in San Diego, does a version of this.

"If I want a glass of wine with my dinner, I don't feel guilty. I can enjoy that glass of wine. And if I wanna have a spirit because we're celebrating someone's birthday, or champagne, I will do that. But I'll only have one, and then let it go, and then maybe go to a nonalcoholic," she said. "It's a way of continuing with that social pattern of drinking that I enjoy."

While a typical beer has about 5% alcohol by volume, NA drinks are only allowed to have up to 0.5%, about the same as a ripe banana. People sometimes pick them when they don't want to be intoxicated, like before exercise or driving.

More Mocktails on the Menu Is a Positive Health Trend -- but Watch the Sugar

An online survey Bowdring conducted with colleagues found that the vast majority of people who drink both beverages say NA drinks help them reduce their alcohol use.

That makes their growing popularity a positive trend overall, said Joseph Lee, MD, CEO of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, an addiction treatment and advocacy organization.

"More and more when I go to restaurants, mocktails are just offered, like they're on the menu and it's just part of the norm now," said Lee, an expert in psychiatry and addiction medicine. "Those are really healthy things to see on a broader public health level."

But there is a catch: Some drinks, like mocktails made with soda and sweet syrups, have high levels of sugar. The American Heart Association recommends limiting added sugars to no more than about six teaspoons a day for women and nine teaspoons a day for men. A 12-ounce can of soda on its own contains 10 teaspoons.

Who Should Be Wary of NA Beverages?

The picture gets murkier for people with drinking problems.

Those entering treatment for alcohol use disorder say they've had mixed success using NA beverages to reduce or stop their drinking, Bowdring said.

"They do contain a lot of the alcohol-related cues," she said. "Because they are so similar to alcohol, it could be that they actually trigger craving for full strength alcohol and may lead people to revert to alcohol use."

When Denzer first got sober 7 years ago, she and her friends avoided drinking NA beverages.

"We were pretty opposed to it because we were like, 'Well, this tastes like beer and we're a year sober, and so we're going to associate that taste with actual alcohol,'" said Denzer, who was treated at Hazelden Betty Ford. "As time went on, we became more open to it."

But it's not for everyone, she said, "particularly for people who are either newer in recovery or who are on shaky ground."

Experts agreed that NA drinks are more appropriate for those further along in recovery.

"Everyone's journey is going to be a little bit different," Bowdring said. "I encourage folks to just sort of be aware of how these drinks are impacting them."

That's the bottom line, even for those who aren't dealing with alcoholism.

You should have "an honest appraisal, without judgment, about your own health risk in much the same way that most people can look at their family history and gauge their risk for everything from diabetes to breast cancer," Lee said. "What it comes down to is: You really need to know yourself."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/117203

ESC: MSD/Bayer's Verquvo disappoints in heart failure trial

 Bayer and MSD's hopes of expanding the use of their sGC stimulator Verquvo in heart failure have been dashed by a failed phase 3 trial.

The results of the 6,105-patient VICTOR study showed that Verquvo (vericiguat) was unable to meet its objective of reducing the rate of heart failure hospitalisations or cardiovascular death in ambulatory heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) patients compared to placebo.

The results, reported at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress, showed, however, that Verquvo was associated with fewer cardiovascular deaths and all-cause deaths when added to standard background therapy for heart failure.

Verquvo has been approved to treat HFrEF with worsening symptoms – specifically after hospitalisation or the need for intravenous diuretics – since 2021, based on the results of the VICTORIA trial. VICTOR was designed in the hope of extending the use of the drug to patients without worsening symptoms.

Over 18.5 months median follow-up, the primary endpoint occurred in 18% of patients in the vericiguat group and 19.1% of patients in the placebo group, a 7% improvement that was not statistically significant. Most of the difference came from reduced cardiovascular death, 17% lower with Verquvo, and with little difference between the groups in hospitalisations.

Lead investigator Prof Faiez Zannad from the Université de Lorraine in France told delegates that the lack of an impact on hospitalisation "may be due, at least in part, to the high use of contemporary [heart failure] therapies and the low proportion of recent hospitalisations in this population."

It's notable that 83% of patients were on three or more heart failure therapies and nearly half (47.5%) had no cases of hospitalisation for heart failure, setting a high bar for showing a significant benefit over placebo in VICTOR, he said.

"Secondary endpoints indicated fewer events for vericiguat in cardiovascular death and all-cause mortality compared to the placebo group," added Zannad. "Although these results are descriptive, the data on mortality in a well-controlled HFrEF patient population is a positive sign. Overall, these findings support the use of vericiguat in ambulatory patients with HFrEF on top of contemporary therapies."

Bayer and MSD don't give much detail about Verquvo sales in their financial reporting, but said when the drug was first approved that they were targeting peak revenues for the product of around €1 billion a year.

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/esc-msdbayers-verquvo-disappoints-heart-failure-trial

Morgan Stanley to act as market maker for 16 securities listed on Saudi Exchange

 Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has bagged the Saudi Exchange Company's approval to act as a market maker for 16 listed securities on the main and parallel markets of the Tadawul.

Market makers are firms or individuals who actively quote both sides of a market in a particular security by providing bids and offers along with the market size of each.

They are obligated to engage in such trading activity, and provide liquidity and depth to markets and profit from the difference in the bid-ask spread, noted Investopedia.

List of securities can be found here.

Morgan Stanley's market making activities for the 16 securities are expected to commence on Tuesday, Sep. 2.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/morgan-stanley-to-act-as-market-maker-for-16-securities-listed-on-saudi-exchange/ar-AA1LEtBb

Trump Declares DC "Crime-Free Zone," Urges Leftist Mayors To Join Him Restoring Law & Order

 On Sunday, President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that Washington, D.C., had become a "crime-free zone" in just a matter of weeks. This follows years of failed social-justice policies that backfired and ignited a violent crime tsunami across the nation's capital and just north in still crime-ridden Baltimore City. 

Fast-forward to Monday morning, Trump praised Mayor Muriel Bowser on his Truth Social platform for working with his administration to reduce violent crime, claiming that "crime is down to virtually NOTHING in D.C."

However, Trump blasted leftist mayors in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Baltimore, who, according to the president, are resisting assistance from the White House to clean up violent crime spurred by years of toxic social justice policies. He said that officials in these progressive towns are "justifying crime instead of eliminating it. " 

Here's the Truth Social Post from earlier:

Wow! Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has become very popular because she worked with me and my great people in bringing CRIME down to virtually NOTHING in D.C.

Her statements and actions were positive, instead of others like Pritzker, Wes Moore, Newscum, and the 5% approval rated Mayor of Chicago, who spend all of their time trying to justify violent Crime, instead of working with us to completely ELIMINATE it, which we have done in Washington, D.C.,  NOW A CRIME FREE ZONE.

Wouldn't it be nice to say that about Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and even the Crime Drenched City of Baltimore??? It can happen, and it can happen FAST! Work with us!!!

Mayor Bowser's ratings have gone up, in a short period of time, 25%, and the people of D.C. are thanking her for stopping crime wherever she goes. It's not a miracle, it's hard work, courage, and being SMART.

The top Law Enforcement Officer in L.A. said, during the riots, and when I sent the troops in early, that they couldn't have done it without us. They were completely overwhelmed! If we hadn't gone in early, on top of the Palisades plus fires, L.A. would have lost the Olympics. Congratulations to Mayor Muriel Bowser, but don't go Woke on us. D.C. is a GIANT VICTORY that never has to end!!!

And this. 

Last week, radical leftist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order restricting city authorities from cooperating with the federal government, including National Guard troops. Apparently, Johnson doesn't want to address years of failed progressive policies, police defunding, and other missteps that have left parts of the imploding metro area resembling a "war zone" because optics here would be terrible for Democrats. 

The common denominator among leftist mayors resisting and denying federal assistance to clean up crime-ridden metro areas is that accepting help would amount to admitting their so-called progressive utopias have entirely failed.

Many based Americans already recognize that Democratic leadership across many cities has been nothing short of disastrous, which leaves some wondering if social-justice policies were likely never designed to work, but rather to destroy.

The failures are most across progressive cities...

Everyone knows that the 'defund the police' agenda pushed by Marxist BLM was a disaster.

It's not a mystery why Baltimore is resisting help. Gov. Wes Moore and ... 

Related:

• Democrats "Are Society Destroyers"

• Even A Trump-Hating Governor Calls Out Democrats' Crime "Doesn't Exist" Narrative

• Amid DC Takeover, Trump Eyes Crime In Other Cities - Here's What To Know

• Restoring Law & Order In Crime-Ridden Cities May Be Key To Resolving Affordability Crisis

• The Chart Baltimore Democrats Hope You Never See

. . .

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-declares-dc-crime-free-zone-urges-leftist-mayors-join-him-restoring-law-order

AI & 'The End Of Labor' Day

 by James Howard Kunstler,

Back to School

"We are living in what I call the 3rd Arc of American history, a period as consequential as the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War."

- Gen. Michael Flynn

Yellowed leaves were already dropping here in August with the lack of rain and tomatoes won’t turn red when the air hits the mid-forties at dawn. Summer is trying hard to end, though technically there’s almost a month left. This is the real new year, of course, not the noisy one in January with all the drunken commotion and confetti. Tomorrow, it’s back to school, back to the job, the grind, the responsibilities, the worry, the rage, the hope, the yearning, as we gyre toward cold and fire. Enjoy ye burgers and hot dogs while ye can this Labor Day.

Anyway, the geniuses of Silicon Valley are attempting to end labor, at least any labor of the mind. A-I is coming for your job, ye middle managers, ye info manipulators, ye engineers, copy-writers, clerks, and numbers-crunchers, coming for whatever remains of the American bourgeoise. I’m telling you now: A-I will be a huge disappointment. Not only will it wreck the scaffold of our social order but, after it makes everything stupid — even worse than today — it will hallucinate so badly that anything it touches will become crazier than the Democratic Party.

That’s not a hard goal to reach either, with literacy at about what used to be age-eight-level for over half the US population. In such a milieu, gnostic communism is sure to flourish.

The immiseration of all becomes the greatest good for the greatest number. We’re already halfway there — though it is a pretty sure thing that the story will turn sharply. It’s not for nothing that we call this moment in history a “fourth turning.”

One turning point might lie directly ahead. You are now in the season of financial fiascos, and boy-oh-boy are we ever set up for a humdinger. Are you following the money-bloggers? Those boys and girls are staring into the abyss staring back at them, with their hair on fire and their eyes bugging out. Just about everything is unreal and out of whack: equity markets, bond rollovers, the fun-house of shadow banking, the value of collateral (if it’s even there), the fate of currencies, perhaps even the fate of nations. France, for instance, is chattering about an imminent IMF bailout. Well, if that one goes, what do you think happens in Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium . . . Western Civ, that is?

The cliché these days is that looming financial chaos and potential economic collapse is what’s driving the EU countries to all their loose war-talk. As if. . . as if they were even marginally capable of prosecuting any sort of war except the war against their own citizens currently underway — which requires only bureaucrats declaring new restrictions on liberty, not missiles, drones, bombs, bullets, and live human troops and, most of all, some comprehensible reason to fight.

Paranoia about Russia seeking to invade Western Europe is not a comprehensible reason to launch a war against Russia — because it’s just paranoia, political crazy, in the absence of any rational aspiration in current European governance. The Germans have tried “green” energy planning, shutting down their nuclear power plant fleet, applauding the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. Where did that get them? I will tell you: it got them to a crashing standard-of-living. It got them to their current (maybe not-for-long) chancellor Friedrich Merz telling them last week to wave auf nimmer wiedersehen to their social welfare system, you know: cheap, subsidized medical care, free college, six-week vacations, cushy pensions. (And, meanwhile, do you mind if we spend whatever’s left of your taxes on free stuff for the hordes of third-world savages we stupidly imported into the country?)

But then, we’re not Europe. Mr. Trump has other ideas and is trying to lead a movement for re-ordering the economy back toward the production of real goods. It’s been tough-sledding, with every half-educated federal judge attempting to nix any-and-all executive actions in that direction. Anyway, if Europe’s banking system blows (and the accessories of banking, like markets and currencies, with that), then the damage is sure to spread to America, indeed probably all over the world, and then the fourth turning will rev-up to turning and churning at full speed. What will that mean?

A universal fall in global standards-of-living . . . the collapse of governments and sharp contraction of economies (Europe especially) . . . a period of very uncomfortable flux, how long, no one knows . . . and then the re-ordering of life that anyone with half a brain has expected, though perhaps not the way they expected. Here’s what I expect: the failure of most things organized at the giant scale: global corporations, national chain retail, distant supply-lines, and consequently the laborious, painful reconstruction of far more localized economies. I expect radical simplification of everyday life, including less high-tech, less intrusive government, irregular electric service, falling oil production, and a notable drop in population levels.

I expect a surprising shift in social relations, including a return to divisions of labor based on gender; de-pornified courtship manners and a revival of trad mating behavior, with priorities on motherhood and child-rearing in a crisis of infertility; a revival of religious communion (already underway in America’s youngest generation); a necessary return to the ethic of personal responsibility as government support withers; and a return to swift justice, including execution for significant crimes. I expect some nations to fracture into smaller regional and ethnic units, certainly Canada, possibly even the United States.

That’s a lot of upcoming action and, of course, it won’t all happen right away or at once, but it will get underway in earnest this fall. It’s not exactly Mr. Trump’s “Golden Age,” and surely not what a lot of people had expected in the way of a “Singularity” or a tech utopia or a unicorn nirvana. But it will have its charms and, for a while anyway, we will have to stop being stupid and crazy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ai-end-labor-day