#award
#AI #song for #Grammy
Source: https://www.grammy.com/news/2025-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list
#Record Of The Year
#Award to the Artist(s), Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), and/or Mixer(s), and Mastering Engineer(s) if other than the artist.
NOMINEES:
"Now and Then" – The #Beatles
Giles Martin & Paul McCartney, producers; Geoff Emerick, Steve Genewick, Jon Jacobs, Greg McAllister, Steve Orchard, Keith Smith, Mark 'Spike' Stent & Bruce Sugar, engineers/mixers; Miles Showell, mastering engineer
...
The Beatles song was generated with AI.
#news #technology #Software #music #art #artist #history #future
Awards are Gay and Literally Fake
#ESPN was caught winning more than 30 Emmy Awards for individuals who are imaginary employees of the #Disney network:
In March 2023, Shelley Smith, who worked 26 years as an on-air reporter for ESPN, received a call from Stephanie Druley, then the network’s head of studio and event production. Druley said she wanted to talk about something “serious” that needed to stay between the two of them, Smith recalled. She then told Smith that Smith needed to return two sports #Emmy statuettes that she had been given more than a decade earlier.
That request was one of many ESPN made of some of its biggest stars last year after the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), the organization that administers the Emmys, uncovered a scheme that the network used to acquire more than 30 of the coveted statuettes for on-air talent ineligible to receive them. Since at least 2010, ESPN inserted #fake names in Emmy entries, then took the awards won by some of those #imaginary #individuals, had them re-engraved and gave them to on-air personalities… The #fraud was discovered by #NATAS, which prompted an investigation by that organization and later by ESPN.
Sadly, it turns out that the legendary, award-winning broadcasters Kirk Henry, Lee Clark, and Dirk Howard don’t even exist.
Now, I’m fairly notorious for my indifference to awards. I’ve understood that most of them are nothing but popularity contests or marketing tools since my junior year of high school. And that’s not sour grapes or anything; I declined my high school’s attempt to invent a fake award when the soccer team coach wrongly felt I’d been robbed when the MVP award went to the spiritual leader of our undefeated team instead of to the leading scorer.
But a lot of people take them seriously even though they prove absolutely nothing about excellence or quality. And even if you weren’t convinced of that by the Sad/Rabid Puppies campaigns, or the fact that Mark Clifton and Frank Riley won the 1955 #Hugo #Award for their unforgettable novel They’d Rather Be Right over some little book written by an English professor called The Lord of the Rings, I should hope that ESPN winning 30 Emmies for people who don’t even exist would suffice.
Julian Assange awarded Konrad Wolf Prize prize by the German Academy of Arts
"His work embodies #journalistic #awareness-building at its best, and aims to change the world by #democratic means – something that is direly needed”
#julianassange #award #KonradWolfPrize #german-acadamy-of-arts #berlin #stellaassange #wikileaks #freepress #freeassange #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange
PEN Norway Awards Julian Assange the Ossietzky Prize for 2023
https://norskpen.no/eng/nyheter/pen-norway-awards-julian-assange-the-ossietzky-prize-for-2023/
#JulianAssange awarded the #2023-Ossietzky-Prize 'in recognition of his #critical-journalism and his #commitment to #exposing the #abuseofpower and #warcrimes'
#pen-norway #award #ossietzky-prize-2023 #pen #norway #freedom-of-expression #humanrights #civilrights #politicalrights #freespeech #freepress #freeassange #weareallassange
Ithaka Movie
#Ithaka #movie wins #Amnesty-international #award following a great reception at #Thassaloniki #Documentary-Film-Festival!
#Congratulations #benlawrence #gabrielshipton #adriandevant
#freeassange #julianassange
Monkeys and magic: Lensculture black and white photography awards – in pictures
The Guardian
Photographs taken while concussed, life after weight loss and Mexican fire dancers – these monochrome works tell moving stories from across the globe. (...)
Tags: #photo #photography #monkey #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #award #award_winning_photograph
Ithaka the Movie
Ithaka wins #Audience #Award and #Best #Documentary
'The campaign to free #JulianAssange takes on #intimate #dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous #political #prisoner, #WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an #international arm wrestle over #freedom of #journalism, #government #corruption and #unpunished #war-crimes. For his #family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the #abyss of the #US #justice #system, however, this #David-and-Goliath struggle is #personal – and, with his #health declining in a #British #maximum-security #prison and #American government #prosecutors pulling out all the stops to #extradite him, the #clock-is-ticking.'
Julian Assange receives Weizenbaum Award for Peace and Social Responsibility
(also receives the Order of Italian Journalists Card)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_HTDtXSWASc
https://dontextraditeassange.com/post/julian-assange-receives-weizenbaum-award-for-peace-and-social-responsibility/
#julianassange #weizenbaum #award #peace #social-responsibility #fiff #journalism #stellaassange #Order-of-Italian-Journalists #card #wikileaks #freepress #freespeech #freeassange #weareallassange
$40 million for 40 projects as DOE steps up push to decarbonize
The Energy Department announced nearly $40 million in funding for projects aimed at increasing the lifespan, reliability, and industrial use of solar.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/10/19/40-million-for-40-projects-as-doe-steps-up-push-to-decarbonize/
#energy, #award, #csp, #policy, #doe, #markets
Assange wins 2021 Sacco & Vanzetti Award for Social Justice ~ Live from Boston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTM822e6sLA
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/08/watch-assange-wins-sacco-vanzetti-award-in-boston/
#julianassange #assange #boston #homerun4julian #usa #tour #johnshipton #gabrielshipton #jillstein #raymcgovern #davidrovics #bartolomeovanzetti #vanzetti #nicolasacco #sacco #social #justice #award #journalism #wikileaks #publisher #democracy #truth #extradition #political #prisoner #weareallassange #freespeech #freepress #freedom #freeassange
#YouTube #CEO Susan #Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' #Award Sponsored by YouTube
"I've just seen the real benefits that #freedom of speech has, as well as representing people of all different backgrounds and all different perspectives, and the freedoms that we have, we really can't take for granted," she said. "We really have to make sure that we're protecting them in every way possible. I feel, because of my family #history, a deep connection to those freedoms and I'm very thankful for the freedoms that I have."
Sorry #Google, but the harm you do to the #internet makes me want to run away when I hear that. :(
#speech #expression #economy #company #democracy #politics #fail #humanrights
