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By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70Maliki Osman attends Gaza conference in Cairo, announces expansion of capacity building efforts for Palestinian Authority
Gisele - who already has Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11, with her ex-husband Tom Brady - wrote on Instagram: "There's no guide to life, no perfect roadmap to follow. But remember everything you are, is a choice! To feel good, to be healthy, and to cultivate a positive mindset are daily choices that only you can commit to. Each day presents the opportunity to choose habits that nourish your body, uplift your spirit, and guide you toward the life you truly want to live. [prayer emoji] (sic)" Gisele - who was married to Tom between 2009 and 2022 - previously claimed that she wouldn't change anything about her life. The blonde beauty insisted that she feels "grateful for every lesson" she's learned. Gisele - who began dating Joaquim, a Jiu-Jitsu instructor, after her split from Tom - told ABC News: "I wouldn't change anything in my life. "I had incredible experiences. I learned so much. I have my children, who are the biggest blessings in my life, and now I get to create a new season - a new chapter in my life, and I get to learn new things. I get to walk my path in a different way. I'm grateful for all of it. I'm grateful for every lesson." Gisele's setbacks have actually helped her to find some clarity. She explained: "It made me realise what I want and what I don't want. "I'm very committed to living my truth more than ever. That's where my heart is right now. I'm living my truth and I'm not apologising for it."
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Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic scheduled to start against Utah Hockey ClubI want to give you a list of AI Christmas music to block in your major music streaming platform. I don’t think it’s comprehensive. I bet there’s a bunch of new ones that I am still unwittingly playing. I just want to feel festive for a moment sometimes, which is why I play this music. But now I know about artificial intelligence (AI) Christmas music, so I can’t be happy in December, either. AI sludge is already everywhere and now it’s here, too. Some stupid list won’t be enough to solve the problem. To be honest, I don’t really know how to fix this. Banning AI Christmas “bands” who receive millions of listens monthly is like killing individual flies coming from a massive open sewer situated right around my house. Well, Merry Christmas. Here is your gift. A little fly swat. (Screenshot via Spotify) AI Christmas songs sound like the real deal. Nothing funny or remarkable about them — the occasional odd instrumentalisation or off-sounding vocal, but little that sparks curiosity and absolutely nothing that sparks joy. That’s generative AI’s job. It thieves from real stuff and shoves it all into a tech mulcher to produce a reasonable aggregate of all the things that ever made you feel something. Now you can enjoy a tech-slop aggregate of those old feelings in your stupid Christmas hat. Like a digital mama bird that regurgitates your own nostalgia into your open beak for you to gulp up. You’ll hear this shit whether you want to or not. It will come up on auto-play if you fire up a lone Nat King Cole song. It’s also infesting all the largest Christmas playlists on streaming platforms. Some of these AI Christmas “bands” have been around for a year or two by now, so they’ve accumulated enough streams and shares to come up in the playlist right after Mariah . A popular bit of software used to make AI Christmas music is Suno . The app follows specific commands to create AI music and vocals accordingly. It also allows artists to hide the AI mulch behind a smattering of real lyrics, vocals and instrumentalisation they can choose to add. All of these AI slop Christmas artists appear to be controlled by the same person or group. There are a few tells. (Screenshot via Spotify) All their Spotify bios begin with a variant of the following statement: ‘ [Insert band name here] are working songwriters, artists and musicians who have joined forces to release holiday-themed cover music on their independent record label, distributed by Warner Music’s ADA.’ (Screenshot via Spotify) Distribution services like ADA and Distrokid accept AI music but are getting increasingly picky about what they allow through the gate. Not because they have morals. They do not. It’s due to the many legal battles cropping up currently around AI thievery. The merest uncredited sample can bankrupt artists and minor labels, so imagine the kind of payday an entirely thieved AI musical salad could deliver. As long as the content is deemed of high enough quality and perhaps spliced in Suno with real vocals or instrumentalisation to help disguise it, they’ll let it through. Another tell: the bios of these “bands” tell you to follow them for more music. But you can’t. The Instagram and Twitter accounts are always locked. (Screenshot via Instagram) They don’t really want people snooping around and verifying the AI-ness of the music. Or determining who is producing it. (Screenshot via Instagram) Oh, well. Another bit of AI slop to have to gulp down whenever I turn one of my hundred bits of shitty tech on for the day. Another shitty facet of the minefield of behaviour modification, guerilla marketing and AI mulch that is my digital life. Tech writer Ed Zitron was writing post-U.S. Election about this misery that is modern digital life: It's time to accept that most people's digital life fucking sucks, as does the way we consume our information, and that there are people directly responsible. Be as angry as you want at Jeff Bezos... but don’t forget Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and every single other tech executive that has allowed our digital experiences to become rotted out husks dominated by algorithms. These companies are not bound by civic duty, or even a duty to their customers — they have made their monopolies, and they’ll do whatever keeps you trapped in them. Funny how recently one of the modern era’s most effective political assassinations appears to have been, in part at least, inspired by the inhuman outputs of AI algorithms. More or less across the political divide, we can all see people cheering the moment of the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. From that, I suspect we’re able to assess just how unhappy people really are about the encroachment of AI slop, AI thievery and AI-based decision-making into daily life, whether real or digital. AI is here to stay, so get used to it The consensus among experts and pundits on AI technologies such as ChatGPT seems to be that it’s like old age — inevitable, so get used to it. I don’t think that our mainstream discourse has bothered to give people the tools to voice this frustration. Zitron has often written about this as well. Tech writers are too busy breathlessly playing stenographer for the lies of AI snake oil salesmen to address the fact that it’s not really helping anyone. Just one more update! Please! Just one more! You’ll all see! Perhaps the worst thing that AI can do has already been mentioned. Is it the insurance stuff? Or is it Israel’s mass-murdering tech drone equipment ? I know it’s not AI Christmas music. There are greater evils in the world, yes. And I’m sure I’ll push on, drunk in December in my Santa hat. Perhaps in time, I’ll be willing to trade away yet more cynicism at an unending torrent of nostalgic AI mulch for just a little more cheer. But, from my layperson calculations and looking at the average streams of each of these AI “artists”, I believe this “AI art” earns whoever’s behind it hundreds of thousands of dollars every Christmas season. And I don’t like that. The list of AI Christmas music I've uncovered is as follows: Sleighbelle; The Humbugs; Dean Snowfield (come on); Snowdrift Sleighs; Daniel & The Holly Jollies; and North Star Notesmiths. If we’re negotiating how to take a more moral position you probably shouldn’t even be paying for Spotify or Apple Music at all. But you probably do. And you probably do Christmas-y stuff in December, as well. So join me in simply selecting ‘Don’t like this artist’ , or whatever similar function your streaming app offers. Join me as we content ourselves with starving some arsehole of $0.00001 cents this Christmas. Happy holidays. Tom Tanuki is a writer, satirist and anti-fascist activist whose weekly videos commenting on the Australian political fringe appear on YouTube . You can follow him on Twitter @tom_tanuki. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License Support independent journalism Subscribe to IA. Related Articles Countering the influence of 'mass man' with AI Intelligent systems depend on fusion of biology and technology Nightshade empowers artists in the battle against unauthorised AI theft Intuition key to AI being a tremendous force for good AI holds promising future for quantum genetics BUSINESS CONSUMERS MUSIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Christmas music theft copyright Spotify Suno Apple Music ADA Distrokid Share ArticleMurder victim's wife drops out of race
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LARAMIE, Wy. — Ashton Jeanty rushed for 169 yards and a touchdown to lead No. 12 Boise State to a 17-13 win over Wyoming on Saturday night and a berth in the Mountain West Conference title game. The Broncos (10-1 overall, 7-0) will play in the conference championship game for the seventh time in the eight seasons against an opponent to be determined and kept their College Football Playoff hopes alive. Boise State was the provisional No. 4 seed in the playoff in this week’s rankings. Boise State finished the Mountain West unbeaten, extended its winning streak to nine games and beat Wyoming (2-9, 2-5) for the eighth straight time, dating to 2016. Wyoming, which entered as a heavy underdog, gave the Broncos plenty of problems and held a 13-10 lead midway through the fourth quarter. But Boise State's Jambres Dubar scored on a 2-yard run with just over five minutes left to play and the Broncos defense came up with one final stop to seal the win. Boise State quarterback Maddux Madsen was 14 for 25 passing for 168 yards. Wyoming used a pair of quarterback. Kaden Anderson was 9 for 14 for 116 yards and a touchdown before being knocked out the game. Evan Svoboda took over and connected on 6 of 13 passes for 87 yards. Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty runs into the end zone for a touchdown past Wyoming defensive back Wrook Brown in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, in Laramie, Wyo. Credit: AP/David Zalubowski Led by Heisman candidate Jeanty, who surpassed 2,000 yards for the season and averaged 8.5 yards per carry, the Broncos outgained the Cowboys 353-319 in total yardage, despite going 1 for 10 on third down. John Hoyland opened the scoring with a 54-yard field goal, giving the Cowboys an early 3-0 lead in the first quarter. Boise State’s Jonah Dalmas had a chance to tie it with a 49-yard field goal on the ensuing drive, but his attempt missed wide left. After Hoyland missed a 53-yard field goal try, Jeanty put the Broncos up 7-3 with a 61-yard touchdown run with 3:40 left in the first. The Cowboys reclaimed a 10-7 lead early in the second quarter when a four-play, 67-yard drive was capped by a 5-yard touchdown pass from Anderson to Justin Stevenson. Boise State wide receiver Chris Marshall leads teammates on to the field in the first half of an NCAA college football game against Wyoming Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, in Laramie, Wyo. Credit: AP/David Zalubowski Boise State tacked on a 24-yard field goal from Dalmas as time expired in the first half, sending the teams into the break tied at 10. After a scoreless third quarter, Hoyland put the Cowboys back in the lead with a 25-yard field goal. But, Boise State answered with an eight-play, 75-yard drive capped by Dubar’s touchdown run. It was likely the Broncos’ last trip to Wyoming, as the Cowboys are set to join the Pac-12 in 2026. Boise State leads the all-time series 18-1, with its lone loss coming against Josh Allen’s 2016 squad in Laramie. The takeaway Boise State: Will likely retain its spot as the No. 4 seed in the College Football Playoff rankings going into its final regular-season game. Wyoming: The Cowboys are in the midst of their worst season since 2015, when they finished 2-10. Up next Boise State: Hosts Oregon State on Friday night in its regular-season finale. Wyoming: Travels to face No. 25 Washington State on Saturday.
Jammu, Dec 28: Minister for Health and Medical Education, Social Welfare and Education, Sakina Itoo Saturday did not mince words while censuring “pathetic state of affairs of patient care and hygiene in the main emergency of GMC, hospital Jammu.” While expressing her dissatisfaction, the Health Minister asserted that the robust infrastructure and facilities in premier government health institutions was the priority of the J&K government as they (institutions) catered to the needs of poor masses. She was speaking to the media after conducting a surprise visit to Government Medical College (GMC) hospital, Jammu. “This is your main emergency. Situation is pathetic. See, you doctors are coming now in the ambulance and the patients are standing outside, suffering,” she told the GMC Principal and Dean Dr Ashutosh Gupta, as he tried to explain the situation vis-a-vis poor hygiene in the emergency and absence of few doctors. “As per roster, doctors were not there. Number was less. They are arriving now. Hygiene or sanitation standards are pathetic. Hospitals should be neat and clean so that patients can be treated well. But given the scenario, I feel their (patients) condition would not improve but deteriorate. Even a healthy person can turn sick. It is a pitiable state of affairs in the hospital,” she told media persons, in response to their queries. Itoo stated, “Patient were there in the emergency as paint exercise was underway. Smell of paint is not good for patients. It can add to their health woes. System is not up to the mark in this hospital. We will see what can be done to improve the situation. Doctors have been available here. But some were found absent. Action will be taken against absent doctors.” “See the government hospitals, whether they are in Kashmir, Jammu, Rajouri or elsewhere, are very important because they cater to the poor masses. Rich and affluent people can go anywhere to avail medical services in top notch private hospitals but poor cannot. So they should get the best of the treatment here. There is an army of doctors deployed here but still I’ve found several doctors, as per roster, absent from duty. This is not correct,” the Minister said. Later, the GMC Principal said, “Construction is going on in the Emergency wing. Due to Friday’s showers, there was some issue of hygiene. As far as the absence of doctors is concerned, I’ll check the roster. Many doctors were on duty in different wards. We will check and apprise the Minister of the exact status.”
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