Le Show; May 14, 2023
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Here it is! From deep inside your audio device of choice. So, Elon Musk isn't involved in quite enough new companies, new industries. There's always more when you're a genius. This from Reuters, ladies and gentlemen, U.S. lawmakers are asking regulators to investigate whether the makeup of the panel overseeing animal testing at Elon Musk's brain chip startup, those words must have threw at you. Neuralink contributed to botched and rushed experiments. Really him? U.S. House representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff, both Democrats, signed a draft letter to the Department of Agriculture requesting a probe into how neuralink oversaw its experiments. If they actually did, lawmakers have shared the draft with peers to gather more signatures and plan to send it to the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week.
The draft states they're responding to a May 4th story by Reuters, which revealed that neuralink filled its oversight board with company employees who stand to benefit financially from the startup getting regulatory approval for its novel brain chip. Again, those words. Thrills? Thrills yet? The panel approved experiments that resulted in the unnecessary deaths and suffering of animals. That was what Reuters reported December 5th, spokesperson for Blumenauer, the Congressperson, said the U.S. DA did not respond to an earlier request from lawmakers for a probe into neuralink in the wake of that story. That's not enough to look into the thing. The deaths and suffering of animals. And this is what, 2023? Congress has a significant interest in ensuring that all facilities using animals and research and testing, whether government run universities or private companies, comply with the minimal standards of the Animal Welfare Act.
That's what they draft letter says. This really won't surprise you. Musk and neuralink representatives and spokespeople for the U.S. DA and the agency's inspector general didn't respond to requests for comment. Usually these days, Musk responds to requests for comment with the poop emoji. Couldn't be bothered. Couldn't be bothered to hit the poop emoji. Neuralink has already been the subject of federal probes. Reuters reported that in December that the Department of Agriculture's inspector general was investigating at the request of a federal prosecutor, potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act. That governs how researchers treat and test certain types of animals. The probe has also been looking at the U.S. DA's oversight of neuralink. The inspector general in the U.S. DA didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Department of Transportation, let's get some more departments involved in all this, said in February it was investigating neuralink over the movement of hazardous pathogens. The agency spokesman said this probe was continuing. No more details. U.S. DA inspectors visited neuralink's California and Texas facilities in January in response to Reuters reporting and queries by lawmakers. They found no issues according to the new service Reuters. Neuralink has been trying to secure clearance to advance to human trials. Just relax. After a prior attempt was rejected last year by the Food and Drug Administration because of, said with me now, safety concerns. Never enough musk love. Hello, welcome to the show. I was just a little boy. I used to like those shining pretty man. One day I won myself a prize. I got it from the rubber gun machine.
Then I ran home calling my mama. Hey, mama, look at all the pretty things I got. My mama, smile, said sit down my child. She told me, oh boy, oh, that little angel, no, no, angel. Sometimes she said, oh, that little angel, no, no, angel. Hey, give me one more time. There's a rocket baby over here. Sometimes the birds, they always stay embedded in my mind since that day. Right now, I need myself alone. A lot that's really pretty and the way.
It's so hard finding hello, meaning sometimes I mean a shoulder box. But she always seems to be what she's not. I can help, but let me get my mind together. Remember what mama said. Hey, oh, that little angel. Hey, oh, that little angel, no, angel. Hey, when you feel it, let me talk for a minute. Baby Shiny, hold me outside. Don't need it, don't have to be going on. Just take a look at the world today. See a lot shiny paint. Well, well, well, well, well.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Make sure glad to remember what your mama said. Hey, oh, that little angel. Hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. If you try to move on the heart, will you find a pure heart? Tell me, oh, what you say? Oh, no, you got to get down. You don't catch no flies or souls. Just take a look at your love. Yes, you do. Don't look this side. Oh, that's how this side is to you. Find me out. That you don't look the world. What you say? Hello from New Orleans, Louisiana. I'm Harry Sherer, welcoming you to this edition of the show. And if you're not shocked enough by what Elon is up to, try this. When neuropsychologist Bernard Sable put his new fake science paper detector to work, he was shocked by what it found. This is from science magazine.
He screened some 5,000 papers, scientific papers. He estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized in medicine. The figure was 24%. Both numbers, which he and his colleagues report in a pre-print posted this week, are well above levels they calculated for 2010 and far larger than the 2% baseline estimated in a 2022 publishers group report. It's just too hard to believe it first, says Sable. He works at Garrick University Magdeburg. He's editor in chief of restorative neurology and neuroscience. It's as if he says somebody tells you 30% of what you eat is toxic, unquote. His findings underscore what was widely suspected.
Says science, journals are a wash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills, secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying for fake papers or undeserved authorship. Paper mills have made a fortune by basically attacking a system that has had no idea how to cope with this stuff. That's the comment of Dorothy Bishop, an Oxford psychologist who studies fraudulent publishing practices. An announcement early this month from the publisher Hindawi underlined the threaded shutdown for its journals that found were, quote, heavily compromised, unquote, by articles from paper mills. The tool that Dr. Sable used to discover these possibly shocking facts relies on just two indicators authors who use private non-institutional email addresses. And those who list an affiliation with a hospital, it isn't a perfect solution because of a high false positive rate.
Other developers of fake paper detectors who often reveal little about how their tools work, contend with similar issues, still the detectors raise hopes for gaining an advantage over paper mills, which churn out bogus manuscripts containing text data and images partly or wholly plagiarized or fabricated. Often massaged by ghost writers. What are they supposed to do, go on strike? Some papers are endorsed by unrigorous reviewers solicited by the author, such manuscripts threatened to corrupt the scientific literature, misleading readers and potentially distorting systematic reviews. The recent advent of artificial intelligence tools, your chat GPT, I'm looking at you, has amplified the concern. To fight back, yes, there's fighting back, the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers, STM, representing 120 publishers, is leading an effort called the Integrity Hub to develop new tools. Not revealing much about the detection methods will avoid tipping off paper mills.
There's a bit of an arms race as the Integrity Hub's product director. He did say one reliable sign of a fake is referencing many papers that have been retracted. Another involves manuscripts and reviews, mailed from internet addresses designed to look like those of legitimate institutions. Scientific papers, ladies and gentlemen. The major publishers, 20 of them, are helping develop the Integrity Hub tools, and 10 of the publishers are expected to use a paper mill detector the group unveiled last month. The group also expects to pilot a separate tool this year that detects manuscripts simultaneously sent to more than one journal of practice considered unethical and assigned they may have come from paper mills, such large scale cooperation is meant to improve on what publishers were doing individually, and to share tools across the industry. Some outsiders, outside the industry that is, wonder where the journals will make good on promises to crack down publishers embracing gold open access, as a system under which journals collect a fee from authors to make their papers immediately free to read when published,
have a financial incentive to publish more, not fewer papers. They have a, quote, huge conflict of interest, unquote, regarding paper mills, says Jennifer Byrne of the University of Sydney, she has studied how paper mills have doctored cancer genetics data. The publisher parish pressure that institutions put on scientists is also an obstacle. We want to think about engaging with institutions on how to take away perhaps some of the incentives which can have these detrimental effects, says one of the people trying to prevent paper mills from having their stuff published. Those publisher parish pressures can push clinicians without research experience to turn to paper mills, which is why hospital affiliations can be a red flag.
Is nothing sacred answer? No. And now news of the war, won't you? Soft listening to the war, we can listen to the war. Sure we can. University of Toronto study, that's in Canada and should be pronounced Toronto, finds that climate change is causing a commercially significant marine crab. Don't get carried away there crab, to lose its sense of smell. That could partially explain why their populations are thinning. You know, nothing to smell, get out of here. The research was done on dunginess crabs, found that ocean acidification causes them to physically sniff less, which impacts their ability to detect food orders and orders,
and even decreases activity in the sensory nerves responsible for smell itself. Well, this is the first study to look at the physiological effects of ocean acidification on the sense of smell and crabs, says customer portias, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at University of Toronto, author of the study, co-author of the study. Ocean acidification is the result of the Earth's oceans becoming more acidic due to absorbing increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's a direct consequence of burning fossil fuels and carbon pollution. Several studies have shown it's having an effect, an impact, even on the behavior of marine wildlife. Dunginess crabs, in case you don't know, are an economically important species found along the Pacific coast, from California to Alaska.
They're one of the most popular crabs to eat. I can vouch for that. Their fishery was valued at more than $250 million, way back in 2019. They have poor vision, like most crabs, so their sense of smell is crucial in finding food, as well as mates, suitable habitats, and avoiding predators. They sniff through a process known as flicking, where they flick small antennae through the water to detect odors. In those small antennae are tiny neurons which send electrical signals to the brain. That's how a crab works. That's how they do it. Researchers discovered two things when the crabs were exposed to ocean acidification. They were flicking less, and their sensory neurons were 50% less responsive to odors. Crabbs increased their flicking rate when they detect an odor of their interested inmitting crabs that were exposed to ocean acidification.
The odor had to be 10 times more concentrated, before we saw an increase in flicking, says the researcher. There are a few potential reasons why ocean acidification impacts the sense of smell in crabs. Portias points to other research done at the University of Hall in England. It showed acidification of oceans disrupts odor molecules, which can impact how they bind to smell receptors in marine animals, such as crabs. For this particular study published in Global Change Biology, the researchers were able to test the electrical activity in the crabs, sensory neurons, to determine they were less responsive to odors. They also had fewer receptors amid their sensory neurons, and the neurons were physically shrinking by as much as 25% volume. These are active cells, says Portias, and if they aren't detecting odors as much, they might be shrinking to conserve energy, it's like a muscle that shrinks if you don't use it, unquote. Reduced food detection could have implications for other economically important species.
Oralaskan king and snow crabs, their sense of smell functions the same way. Losing their sense of smell seems to be climate related. This might partially explain some of the decline in their numbers, says Portias. If crabs are having trouble finding food, she says, females, it stands to reason females, won't have as much energy to produce eggs. And there go breakfasts. No, not those kind of eggs. Two to the more, ladies and gentlemen. Copyrighted feature of this broadcast. I don't have to go to bed. I've got a small day tomorrow. A small day tomorrow. I don't have to use my hand. I've got a small day tomorrow. I can sleep the day away. And it won't cause too much sorrow.
Not tomorrow. So tonight, this mouse will play. She's got a small day tomorrow. Now all those big wheels with all of their big deals, they are going to need their sleep. But I'm a drop out. And I would rather cop out than run. With all the sheep. Honey child, tonight's the night. And there's a car I can borrow until the day after tomorrow. We can swing till broad daylight. We've got a small day tomorrow.
Now all you big wheels with all of your big deals, you are going to need your sleep. But I'm a drop out. And I would rather cop out than run. With all the sheep. Honey child, tonight is the night. And there's a car I can borrow until the day after tomorrow. We can swing right on a side.
But we've got a big night and a small day tomorrow. And now, nearest of the Olympic movements, produced by Jim Eversall III. This from Ajahn's Frost Press, two Japanese businessmen were handed suspended prison sentences this week in the latest convictions in a bribery scandal surrounding the Tokyo Olympics.
Corruption allegations have spiraled in the aftermath of the Games, implicating major companies and damaging Japan's bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Shigaharo Hisamatsu, a 64-year-old former executive at advertising firm ADK Holdings, got a sentence of 18 months suspended for three years. His former assistant 61-year-old Toshiyaki Tada was given a sentence of one year, also suspended for three. The pair didn't contest charges during their first hearing in March. That they bribed a Tokyo Olympics committee member, according to a local media source. The pair were arrested along with another official in October last year. He reported that Shinichi Ueno admitted in a court hearing in February paid over $100,000 to Haruyuki Takahashi, who is facing several separate bribery charges.
And his reportedly pleaded not guilty. Last month, the former chairman of a high street business suit retailer and sponsor of the Tokyo Games became the first person to be convicted in the bribery scandal. He ornori Ayoki, 84-year-old head of Ayoki Holdings, received a suspended prison sentence of two-and-a-half years. Other parties involved in bribery allegations, including a major publishing firm, an merchandise company licensed to sell soft toys of the Games mascots. As investigations continue, the country's Olympics chief warned last month Japan could push its winter Olympics bid back four years to 2034, when memories will have faded. And iconic French film star Brigitte Bardot was claimed Paris should not host next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games due to an objection to animals being used for sport.
But it's madness for Paris to stage the Games. In addition to potential animal rights abuses, she's concerned that the violent scenes at last year's UEFA Champions League final around Paris venue the Stad de France. That's going to be Paris's Olympic venues next year. So the city's not ready. The first thing Paris should have done was to refuse the Olympic Games, says the 88-year-old Bardot. It's an additional madness which comes at a crucial moment when Paris is disfigured, when the debt which falls to us is abysmal, when the unleashed violence is not controlled, when the dramatic events which have occurred that Stad de France still have not been settled. If you want, this is a quote from Brigitte Bardot, quote, if you want to fart higher than your ass, you risk ending up in insurmountable rubble. As for animals and horses in particular, they will once again be the first victims of this relentless desire to appear. The use of animals in sport came into the spotlight at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, when a German trainer was set home after hitting a horse, St. Boy.
Yes, it's the Olympics. It's a movement, and we all need one every day. You probably know by now, ladies and gentlemen, that the Writers Guild of America, which represents motion picture and television writers, and some others too, has called a strike against the motion picture and television industries. Just finished the second week of the strike, a lot of picketing at studio locations in New York and Los Angeles. And it's an interesting to put it mildly time for this to happen. Now, of course, nobody chooses when to strike the contracts expire when they expire. And that's sort of a given. But in the television business, particularly, it's a weird time over the last few years since Netflix stopped being a DVD by mail company and started being a streaming television and movie company.
Netflix has spent an enormous amount of money to create new original programming for its customers and other streaming services. Or, oh, I don't know, your peacock, your Paramount Plus, your Everything Plus, your Apple Plus, your Minus Plus. They've all been spending like Drunken Sailors to create original programming and sign very lucrative deals with writers and artists and directors and so forth. And that ended, started to end last year, late last year, when all these companies realized they were spending too much money and started cutting back and firing people or links, sorry, laying them off.
And now that's the time when the writer's guild comes and says, no, you got to pay us more. You got to give us what we were getting in residuals from television networks in the past before the whole streaming thing. And the streamers are going too bad, too late. So it's from that point of view, it bids fair to be a long strike and other people are making similar observations. Both sides are declaring using the adjective existential to describe their situation at this moment in time. And that itself seems to foretell a long strike. A lot of supporters from other industries, I sorry, other walks of life in the show business thing, which may or may not help the writers.
But I'll tell you one thing that certainly could help the guild. And that's an anthem. When a cop who plays it by the book gets teamed up with a street by smart-ass kid, and he flips his lid, we write what he did. When the dad and mom of a cute black kid both dies, he's adopted by a cute white nun. He's the sister's son. We write what he done. We face the empty page. Our world is just a stage. We write the stuff. We fill your heart with daily dreams. We write the stuff. We make a star, be what he seems. And when the longest day is over and the shortest day begins,
hand-storing words are spoken over horns and violins. When too much entertainment's not enough, we write the stuff. We relate the stuff. When a blow-off or a punchline needs to pipe or exposition to play real, we've got the seal. We make with the speed. A producer says our outline about Nixon should be a treatment about time. We men are crap. We write the draft.
Directors names you know, but ours just come and go. We write the stuff. We make an alien, speak our minds. We write the stuff. We sit all day on our behinds. And when the longest day is over or the shortest day begins, hand-storing words are spoken over horns and violins. When too much entertainment's not enough. We write the stuff. We write the stuff. We write the stuff.
And now, news of our friend, the Adam. Hey, remember the nuclear plant in Ukraine? Remember Ukraine? Try that. The S- there is a nuclear plant. I think it's Europe's largest, called Zaparizia. Russia now, according to the AP, plans to relocate about 2700 Ukrainian staff from that plant. That's according to Ukraine's atomic energy company. And it warns of a potential, quote, catastrophic lack of qualified personnel at the Zaparizia facility in Russian occupied southern Ukraine.
This, according to the AP, workers who signed employment contracts with Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom following Moscow's capture of the plant early in the war are supposed to be taken to Russia along with their families. That's from the Ukrainian nuclear company in a telegram post this week. The company didn't specify whether the employees would be forcibly moved out of the plant nor was it immediately possible to verify whether that is, in fact, Moscow's plant. Removing staff would, quote, exacerbate the already extremely urgent issue of staff shortages, says Anna Groatom, the Ukrainian company. They Moscow installed governor of the region ordered civilian evacuations from the area last week, including from a nearby city where most plant workers live.
The full scope of evacuation order wasn't clear. Russian forces seized Zaparizia, the plant after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last year. Russian occupiers left the staff in place, the Ukrainian staff, to keep the plant running. But the exact worker's number currently at the plant is known, fighting near the plant as fuel fears of a potential catastrophic incident like the one at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine in 1986. And of course, was the world's worst nuclear accident to date. The Zaparizia is one of the 10 biggest nuclear plants in the world. Its six reactors have been shut down for months. It still needs power and qualified staff to operate crucial cooling systems to keep the nuclear fuel from overheating or the staff for that matter. And needs staff to run other safety features as well. Soon after Russian troops overran the plant, the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that low staffing levels, quote, seriously compromised, one of the fundamental factors in nuclear safety and security, which is that operating staff have to be able to fulfill their safety and security duties and have the capacity to make decisions free of undecided.
Free of undue pressure like you'd be under, if you were working for Russian troops, I guess, the IAEA is deployed a handful of staff as Zaparizia in an effort to ensure its safety. The Kremlin installed authorities in the region are accelerating their push to relocate local residents, including families of workers at the plant due to the expected Ukrainian counter-offensive coming soon. And officials from Japan and South Korea eyeed a potential visit by South Korean experts to fuk before begins the controversial release of treated but radioactive water into the ocean.
It's one of the two major sticking points between the sides that are quickly thawing long strained ties between Japan and South Korea. Japanese government was expected to give updates on the status of the tsunami rack, Fuk plant, which is preparing for a release of the water, saying it's an unavoidable step to move its decommissioning process forward. The government and Teppko, the plant's operator, say the release will begin between spring and summer, like now, maybe, and take decades to finish. It's a lot of water. The water was used to cool the three damaged reactor cores, they were highly radioactive. It leaked into the basements of the reactor buildings to the water, and was collected treated and stored in about a thousand tanks that now cover much of the facility. The government and Teppko say the tanks must be removed so that facilities can be built for the plant's decommissioning while minimizing risks of leaks.
The tanks are expected to reach their capacity of 1.37 million tons of water next year. The Japanese Prime Minister announced that Japan will receive a team of experts from South Korea later this month to address that country's concerns about the radioactive water. It contains tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. Seoul wants to send some 20 government experts to visit Fuk. Japan is expected to give the mature not a safety inspection of the plant. The visit, according to Japanese government, will not affect the planned release of the water or its timing. Japan continues to give explanations about safety measures to gain understanding. Japanese officials say the water will be safely filtered to below releaseable levels by international standards and further diluted by large amounts of seawater before release, making it unharmedful to human health or marine life, although that hasn't convinced local fishing communities that are concerned about safety and reputational damage. Countries, including South Korea, China and the Pacific Island nations have also raised safety concerns. Some scientists say the impact of long-term low-dose exposure to tritium and other radio-nucleides on the environment and human health is still unknown and the release should be delayed.
There have been historical disputes between Tokyo and Seoul, most recently over compensation of wartime Korean forced laborers during Japan's colonization of the Korean Peninsula during the first half of the 20th century. Their relationship has thawed rapidly when the South Korean government announced a local fund to compensate some of those former laborers. They, like Albuquerque, US nuclear regulators, have licensed a multi-billion dollar complex to temporarily store tons of spent fuel in New Mexico from commercial nuclear power plants around the United States. The nuclear regulatory commission decided that this week, saying the proposed project in southeastern New Mexico could go forward, the governor of the state and the state's congressional delegation oppose locating the storage complex in the state, they fear New Mexico will become the nation's dumping ground for spent nuclear fuel.
Given the fact the federal government has no permanent solution for the waste piling up at commercial reactors around the country. New Mexico approved legislation a couple months ago aimed at stopping the project. The fight is expected to end up where else? In court. The state, lawmakers saying their new law requires Holtec internationally energy company that wants to build the facility to acquire construction permits from the state, which might not happen. New Jersey-based Holtec has argued New Mexico muster requiring a consent is preempted by federal law and a court fight would only delay the economic boom that would come from building the complex. Nuclear reactors across the country produce more than 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste a year according to the Department of Energy. Most of it remains at the sites that produce it because there's nowhere else to put it.
News of our friend, the Adam. And now, the Apologies of the Week. E.S. Pence, ESPN Sports Center anchor, John Anderson apologized this week to Zach Whiteclow, a first nation member in Canada this week after comparing the Vegas Golden Knights defenseman's last name to toilet paper the previous night. Whiteclow told reporters in Edmond to now murder. He spoke with Anderson on Tuesday morning. I think it was an attempt at humor that came out as being obviously insensitive and he acknowledges that Whiteclow said he understands it was wrong to say. I wanted to make sure he knew that I accepted his apology.
People make mistakes and this is a scenario where not just John but everyone can learn from a new forward in a positive direction and try to be better forward. What kind of name is Whiteclow? Anderson asked while he was reciting the highlights of the game. A great name if you're a toilet paper. He said on the air. The former Archbishop of York has rejected the findings of a review which found he failed to act on a victim's disclosure of child sex abuse. The Church of England has apologized to Matthew Inason. He was aged 16 when he was abused in the 1980s. Most painful place to be abused. In Bradford, his abuse of the Reverend Trevor Demomanikim killed himself before he was scheduled to appear in court. The independent review said that the former Archbishop of York, Lord Centemu, should have sought advice when the victim made his disclosure.
Demomanikim was charged with six serious sexual offenses in May of 2017. He was found dead at his home the day before he was due to appear in court. There's a thing called timing. Deadline Madrid, the organizers of a women's running race in Spain apologize this week after the winner was offered a food processor to take home. That sparked accusations of sexism. The more than four-mile Carrera de la Mujer, women's race, issued a statement on Twitter saying it hadn't considered the kitchen appliance donated by a sponsor, had sexist implications. We apologize, but we consider this a product with no sexist character, an ideal for any athlete who wants to improve their nutritional habits. The statement said, we regret if any woman felt offended. The organizers promised to take measures to avoid similar incidents in the future.
Get a better sponsor, I'd say. Deadline Allen, Texas, the Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce has issued an apology on social media for a post that was shared to their Facebook page last week. The chamber had published, on Sunday morning, a post that warmly welcomed the group, quote, pulling triggers, pulling corks to its ranks, the morning after that deadly mass shooting within the Allen premium outlet small. After sharp criticism for the posting, the chamber took down the post and later published an apology. In the apology, the chamber said that while scheduling posts ahead of time had standard practice for its social media policy, this particular post was deleted because it was, quote, insensitive and should not have been published. Unquote in the immediate wake of the shooting, where at least nine died and several others were injured.
The senseless acts of violence have no place in any community and deepest condolences are with the victims, their families, and the community of Allen, wrote the chamber. According to its website, pulling triggers and pulling corks is a group for people that enjoy learning about firearms and drinks like wine and whiskey. Pulling triggers and pulling corks is the melding of two amazing worlds that can be enjoyed individually or combined during one event, but never at the same time, the website cautions. Another Madrid apology this week, the Madrid open, apologized for not allowing the women's doubles players to address the crowd after the awards ceremony. After last weekend's final, the finalists of the men's doubles and men's and women's singles were given the chance to talk to spectators following their matches. Winners Victoria Azarenca and Beatriz Hadad Maya and losing finalists Coco Gough and Jessica Pegula were oddly denied that customary honor after Sunday's final.
The circumstance was criticized by the players and bashed by fans on social media. Four days after the incident, Tournament CEO Gerard Sobanian said it would never happen again. Quote, we offer our sincerest apologies to all the players and fans who expected more from the Madrid open. He was quoted as saying on the Tournament's Twitter account not giving a chance to our finalists of women's doubles to speak to fans after the match was unacceptable. Tarte is a maker of cosmetics, Tarte with an E and it's in the process of reviewing its creator program to make changes for diversity and inclusion. It says the brand's CEO, Maureen Kelly, in a new TikTok video, I take full responsibility for a TikTok video that I posted responding to claims by a respected and valued Tarte creator.
Kelly said in a video, at least this week, she was referring to her initial response to a controversy that ensued over the past week after a black influencer spoke out about canceling participation in a Tarte brand trip, stating she'd been treated like a second-tier person when the invitations were sent out. Quote, my choosing a light-hearted approach to a topic that deserved a serious response was definitely a wrong approach. I should have used this as an opportunity to address the unequal treatment of black creators within beauty creator programs. My post came across as me not taking the issue seriously, and I'm really sorry for that, said Kelly. The posted Kelly apologized for was a Get Ready With Me-style TikTok video posted earlier in the month in which she responded to criticism of treatment of BIPOC influencers on two recent Tarte trips. This came after influencer Bria Jones stated in a viral TikTok video beginning of the month that she had decided not to attend the brand's trip to the formula when races in Miami, saying that being excluded from the main F1 race day made it feel like she was being ranked, and the trip felt like a sorority situation.
Kelly announced that starting now the brand is viewing its creator program to make sure it is inclusive and equitable while updating it regularly to make sure we reflect changes that happen within the beauty influence market. We'll take immediate action whenever we find inequalities or errors within our program, she said. We're also going to be more transparent about how we work with our creators, including how we choose them. I acknowledged we have fallen short in issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity in the past. Dayline Atlanta, an incoming University of Georgia football player who made racially insensitive remarks during a live stream during the NFL draft has publicly apologized. Jamal Jarrett is a four star recruit. He committed to play for the Georgia Bulldogs next year. He was live streaming on his Instagram when the Falcons number eight pick was announced. Jarrett was with his teammates at the time as they waited for a defensive lineman.
He'd be drafted. Jarrett apparently wanted Carter, Jalen Carter to be picked by the Falcons. On Wednesday night, Jarrett posted an apology on social media. He says he feels ashamed that his actions hurt those in the Asian American Pacific Islander community and he truly apologizes. He also said he didn't mean any hate or harm towards anyone. He also says he has learned more about the AAPI community and the increased hate crimes that have been directed towards members of the community over the past several days. Jarrett says he's come to understand more clearly where I messed up and why this behavior was wrong. He also says in his apology wants to grow from the situation and make a more positive impact in the community by playing football apparently. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Groual apologized to investors in the obscure novelty, correct or currency Pepe Coin this week. The company drew outrage and boycott threats for documenting how the coins namesake the cartoon meme Pepe the Frog has been used as an alt-right hate symbol.
A Coinbase newsletter discussed a recent surge of interest in meme coins like Pepe Coin and pointed out that the Pepe meme has been co-opted as a hate symbol by alt-right groups. Twitter users and Pepe Coin investors took to Twitter using the hashtag Delete Coinbase with more than 180,000 tweets there calling for a boycott of Coinbase and claiming Pepe isn't exclusively used toward racist ends despite its frequent appearances in far-right imagery. One day later Groual, the Coinbase Chief Legal Officer tweeted the Coinbase did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme and apologized for the overview of the meme coin. The Coinbase newsletter now includes an editor's note apologizing.
An ESPN analyst, Stephen A Smith, is walking back his words after a controversial take on Anthony Davis' head injury in a basketball game Wednesday night. Smith repeatedly mocked the idea that Davis could have a concussion after the Lakers Center left that loss to the Warriors with a head injury. I thought the NFL season was over. Smith said, adding, I ain't seen nothing yesterday that made me say concussion. Concussion Davis took a hit to the head for Moyer's Big Man Kevin Looney was taken back to the locker room in a wheelchair. A wheelchair, really? That's where we are, Smith asked. In the business of a concussion, I was questioning whether Anthony Davis really had one. Smith said, adding,
Bottom line, it was wrong for me to do. Period. My bad. Apparently Davis did not suffer a concussion. The apologies of the wake of copyrighted feature of this broadcast. In the end, Smith said, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Go ahead. Well ladies and gentlemen that concludes this week's edition of the show, back next week
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- Producing Organization
- Century of Progress Productions
- Contributing Organization
- Century of Progress Productions (Santa Monica, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-0c56271863d
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Open/ News of Musk Love: US lawmakers want to investigate how Elon's Neuralink oversees its animal experiments | 00:00 | 'All That Glitters Ain't Gold' by The Spinners | 04:17 | Fake or plagiarized scientific studies are shockingly common | 08:08 | News of the Warm: Some crabs are losing their sense of smell as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide | 14:13 | 'Small Day Tomorrow' by Irene Kral | 18:58 | News of the Olympic Movement: Latest convictions in Tokyo 2020 Olympics bribery scandal; Brigitte Bardot says Paris should not host 2024 Games due to fears of animal abuse | 22:44 | Hollywood writers strike | 27:05 | 'We Write The Stuff' by Harry Shearer | 30:13 | News of the Atom: Russia plans to relocate thousands of Ukrainians from nuke plant; South Korean experts to visit Fuk plant ahead of controversial release of radioactive water into the ocean; US regulators approve spent nuclear fuel facility in New Mexico | 33:48 | The Apologies of the Week: ESPN's John Anderson, The Church of England, Spain women's race, Allen Fairview Chamber of Commerce, Madrid Open, Tarte Cosmetics, Georgia Bulldogs' Jamaal Jarrett, Coinbase, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith | 42:47 | 'A Spring Fantasy' by Herlin Riley /Close | 55:06
- Broadcast Date
- 2023-05-14
- Asset type
- Episode
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:59:08.212
- Credits
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Host: Shearer, Harry
Producing Organization: Century of Progress Productions
Writer: Shearer, Harry
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Century of Progress Productions
Identifier: cpb-aacip-c618c44cff0 (Filename)
Format: Zip drive
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Le Show; May 14, 2023,” 2023-05-14, Century of Progress Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 29, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0c56271863d.
- MLA: “Le Show; May 14, 2023.” 2023-05-14. Century of Progress Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 29, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0c56271863d>.
- APA: Le Show; May 14, 2023. Boston, MA: Century of Progress Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-0c56271863d