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Key Vote YES on the Congressional Review Act Resolution to Overturn the Securities Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, H.J.Res. 109

May 7, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Eric Harrison |Phil Bell |Jason Pye

On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and urge him or her to vote YES on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution to overturn the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) 121, H.J.Res. 109. Introduced by Reps. Mike Flood (R-NE) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC), this bipartisan CRA would stop SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s latest attack on cryptocurrencies and the foundation of decentralized finance (DeFi).
Society starts a new group for Yorkshire women in business

Apr 18, 2024 | theyorkshiresociety.org | Phil Bell

The Yorkshire Society has started a ‘women in business’ group and invites all those interested to get involved. It’s free. Making up 50% of the population, it stands to reason that this under-represented and often under-estimated part of the Yorkshire economy should be supported and encouraged by The Yorkshire Society.
FreedomWorks Sends Letter in Support of Stalled Tax Bill

Apr 15, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Eric Harrison |Phil Bell

In an attempt to push the Senate to move on the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks president, sent a letter and commented:“This session, the House has been broiled in a level of infighting and dysfunction not seen since Fleetwood Mac wrote and recorded the album Rumors. And yet, they found the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act important enough to pass 357 to 70.
FDA and Failure to Reduce Harm

Apr 10, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Eric Harrison |Phil Bell

If there are two things the bureaucracy does well, they are overreaching and just plain not getting the job done. Such is the case with the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Tomorrow, 11 April 2024, at 1 PM in 2154 Rayburn, the FDA will appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Hopefully, appropriate pressure will be applied to bring about a few changes in the bureaucracy.
Does AI limit creativity?

Apr 3, 2024 | philbell.medium.com | Phil Bell

Do LLMs reduce creativity? Yes, according to Kenneth Stanley, because they reduce entropy:“The prediction objective in a large language model is to essentially predict a probability distribution over the next word and the sequence of words. And it’s designed to minimize the entropy because the cross entropy is like a divergence metric. So it’s almost like creativity is deliberately expunged from the system. So the only source of entropy or creativity are the folks that use the system.
Slowing the Economy

Feb 7, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Phil Bell |Jason Pye |Jack Scheader

Railroads were America’s first large-scale heavy industry. As happened with most industries, the government started by being helpful in the formation of railroads before quickly becoming antagonistic, and finally settling into a routine of intrusive regulations, occasional subsidies, and periodic political grandstanding. Marc Scribner of Reason described the latter when he said of the Railway Safety Act of 2023 (S.
Legislate Responsibly

Jan 31, 2024 | freedomworks.org | Phil Bell |Jason Pye |Drew Stephens |Jack Scheader

America was built on a foundation of heavy industry. Whether it is the blast furnaces where steel was made to give life to skyscrapers or the railroads which move the goods in our refrigerators, living rooms, and garages, these industries must be able to conduct their operations without the specter of arbitrary regulation. An example of arbitrary legislation comes in the form of S. 576, the Railway Safety Act of 2023, which was introduced by Ohio Sen.
50 years after the abolition of the Ridings, what does the future of Yorkshire look like now?

Jan 21, 2024 | theyorkshiresociety.org | Phil Bell

This year, apart from being April Fool’s Day, April 1 will be the 50th Anniversary of the abolition of the three Ridings of Yorkshire. The Ridings is a word derived from Anglo-Norse “Thriddings” meaning Thirds and meant the legal and governance divisions of the independent Anglo-Viking kingdom of Jorvik, whose capital, also known as Jorvik, we now call York.
Why the Yorkshire coast’s most famous shipwreck is treasured

Nov 1, 2023 | theyorkshiresociety.org | Phil Bell

James Hodgson of the Filey Bay 1779 Research Group tells of how one of the most dramatic historical events off the Yorkshire coast is the catalyst for a new level of tourism, business and community engagement … and with plans for visits by US and Royal Navy warships. Much has been written about the Battle of Flamborough Head as we gradually approach its 250th anniversary. The sensational event took place on September 23rd of 1779, some three years into the American War of Independence.
Reject the RECOUP Act

Oct 14, 2023 | msn.com | Phil Bell