'They’ll leave themselves': Warner Bros. exec endorses ignoring employees who don't follow DEI initiatives



Warner Bros. Discovery's chief diversity officer supported and endorsed the idea of ignoring employees for at least 30 days if they don't support diversity initiatives and to leave them behind in the hopes that they leave a company on their own.

During a digital roundtable titled "The Future of DEI in Corporate America," Warner Bros. Discovery's chief global diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, Asif Sadiq, discussed the methodology of dealing with employees who don't fall in line with the diversity, equity, and inclusion framework.

Sadiq was joined by industry leaders in the DEI space, including Megan Hogan, global head of talent and chief diversity officer for Goldman Sachs.

In a segment of the discussion, Hogan laid out her strategy to deal with those who have resisted DEI efforts in the workplace.

"One of the things that came up was the frustration of having to work with or persuade the most powerful person in your ecosystem that the work is worth it, and they should reveal themselves more, they should take a bigger role, whatever it is. And we came up with this strategy: Find your people, and ignore the person you cannot persuade."

"You know exactly who they are," she continued.

Hogan then floated the method of ignoring an employee for an entire month until they get the unspoken message.

"If you can’t bring yourself to [ignore them] because of your professional orientation, give it 30 days. Ignore them for 30 days. Don’t take the bait, don’t send them the clip, don’t send them the newsletter, don’t send them the [pitch] deck. Just focus on the people who are willing to do the work. The new arrivals to the work, the new leaders who are preparing to be better allies, to be more vulnerable, to communicate better, and find your people even outside of your organization who can help you fine-tune, who can help you make sure you’re not reading the situation wrong, and let you know that you’re not alone."

"30 days. You can do it," she added.

Sadiq then chimed in, agreeing with Hogan's method and adding that if companies are able to change workplace culture to be more DEI-focused, then employees who don't like it would simply leave.

"Even beyond leaders, there’s always those few people you’ll never change," the diversity officer began.

"You’ll never convince them. You can try up until the end of eternity, and it will still not happen. We waste so much energy doing that sometimes, as individuals, whether you’re in a leadership position or in a team and so on," he went on.

"Focus on the ones who want to change, because that way you start changing culture, and if you change culture, often those people who don’t want to come around will start saying 'this place isn’t the way it used to be' and they’ll leave themselves, which is great."

Warner Bros. Discovery Chief DEI Officer Dr. Asif Sadiq promotes not working with, ignoring and discriminating against employees who do not support the DEI agenda.
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The online event took place through the Aspen Institute, an elite left-wing think tank with strong sentiments surrounding diversity.

The group sought to answer questions surrounding how to handle "DEI programs in the current socio-political climate," while dealing with employee expectations and external pressures surrounding DEI.

In addition, the Warner Bros. Discovery executive also stated that it was a great time to double down on DEI initiatives.

"Rather than focusing on those things you can’t impact or can’t change, focusing on those things you can impact and you can change is so important. Even when we’re trying to look at, potentially, what sort of programs, things we’re doing, I think it’s a great opportunity to double down our efforts on things. To do an audit of what’s worked, what hasn’t worked, where do we put more effort into, where do we reduce effort."

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PlayStation to delete already-purchased Discovery shows from user libraries with no refunds

PlayStation to delete already-purchased Discovery shows from user libraries with no refunds



Sony PlayStation will delete more than 1,200 video titles under the Discovery banner, meaning users who purchased digital access to the products will no longer be able to view them. The media company has made no mention of refunds, either.

PlayStation announced on its website that due to "content licensing arrangements," shows from the Discovery network will no longer be available after 2023.

"As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library. We sincerely thank you for your continued support. Thank you," the company note read.

Then, the entertainment company detailed a massive of list of fleeing content which included shows like “MythBusters” and “Deadliest Catch."

No refunds were mentioned and none have been discussed by the company. The New York Times noted that Sony did not respond to request for comment regarding the issue, while outlets Nerdist and Forbes plainly noted that there will be "no refunds."

"PlayStation will delete users’ purchased tv shows with no refunds" Nerdist wrote, while Forbes noted, "PlayStation store to lose more than 1,200 purchasable titles - with no refunds."

If the PlayStation Network terms of service and user agreement is any indicator, it certainly appears that users should not expect reimbursement. The agreement noted that content is provided on a "revocable" basis.

"All Content provided through [PlayStation Network) is licensed on a non-exclusive and revocable basis to you for your personal, private, non-transferable, non-commercial, limited use."

Further in the agreement, the company stated that as the user, "you bear all responsibility for ensuring that you have the capabilities to view Video Content in the appropriate format, or at all."

Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Discovery's content, has reportedly been working to add more subscribers to its own streaming services Max and Discovery+. According to the New York Times, this could be the reason behind the content pull.

Director Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight," "Oppenheimer") recently criticized digital media for this very reason in an interview with IGN. Nolan explained that access to digital products often relies on the status of a distributor's relationship with the platform providing access to the media.

"If you buy a [DVD], you buy a Blu-Ray, it's on your shelf, it's yours. No company is going to break into your house and take it from you, repossess it; you know it's yours and and you own it," Nolan explained. "That's never really the case with any form of digital distribution. You're relying on the continued health of the supplier, the company who's supplying."


PlayStation has not yet responded to questions for comment regarding possible refunds, reimbursements, or user agreements.

This article will be updated with any relevant responses from PlayStation.

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Kentucky man finds a fortune in Civil War-era gold coins beneath his corn field: 'Unf***ing real'



A Kentucky farmer digging in his corn field struck gold earlier this year.
Had he found a solitary mid-19th century coin, he might be looking at a discovery worth $100,000 at auction. Instead, he found over 700 gold coins from the Civil War era.

The farmer, whose name and location have not yet been disclosed, can be seen in a short video posted to YouTube last month breathlessly surveying the find, saying, "This is the most insane thing ever."

Panning his camera quickly across the muddy discovery, he notes, "Those are all $1 gold coins. $20 gold coins. $10 gold coins. And look: I'm still digging them out."

The prospective multi-millionaire adds, "This is unf***ing real."

The National Post reported that the treasure, which has been dubbed "the Great Kentucky Hoard," contains 18 $20 Gold Liberty coins minted in 1863, one of which previously fetched nearly $100,000 at auction.

According to Professional Coin Grading Services, the 1863 $20 Gold Liberty coin weighs 33.4 grams, was designed by James Barton Longacre, and comprises 90% gold and 10% copper.

The Kentucky treasure also included over 600 gold dollar coins dating from 1850 to 1862, along with several silver coins.

Since the horde consists of Union currency, it is suspected that the former owners in the originally neutral state may have had dealings with the North or, at the very least, cause to hide their bullion from Confederate raiders.

The Numismatic Guaranty Company, the world's largest third-party coin grading service, indicated that this "cache of rare Civil War-era coins unearthed in the Bluegrass State includes finest-known 1863 Double Eagles as well as several interesting varieties and errors."

Jeff Garrett, a rare coin dealer and lead expert in American coinage, told the NGC, "While I’m always excited when someone calls asking for advice about a rare coin discovery, the opportunity to handle the Great Kentucky Hoard is one of the highlights of my career."

"The importance of this discovery cannot be overstated, as the stunning number of over 700 gold dollars represents a virtual time capsule of Civil War-era coinage, including coins from the elusive Dahlonega Mint," added Garrett. "Finding one Mint condition 1863 Double Eagle would be an important numismatic event. Finding nearly a roll of superb examples is hard to comprehend."

GovMint, a rare coin retailer, has been selected to auction the hoard to collectors.

Bill Gale, the president of GovMint, said, "This extraordinary opportunity allows us to share these historic coins with collectors and enthusiasts, ensuring their preservation and appreciation for generations to come."

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Scientists make groundbreaking discovery of low-frequency gravitational waves that create ripples in the fabric of space-time, proving Einstein correct 100 years later



Scientists made a groundbreaking discovery of low-frequency gravitational waves that are likely from supermassive black holes that create ripples in the fabric of space-time.

In 1915, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, in which he determined that the intense gravity of extremely massive objects warps the fabric of space-time. If these gargantuan objects collide with each other, then gravitational waves would be sent into the universe.

Gravitational waves were first discovered in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

The LIGO defines gravitational waves as "ripples in space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the universe.

"The strongest gravitational waves are produced by cataclysmic events such as colliding black holes, supernovae (massive stars exploding at the end of their lifetimes), and colliding neutron stars," the LIGO explains. "Other gravitational waves are predicted to be caused by the rotation of neutron stars that are not perfect spheres, and possibly even the remnants of gravitational radiation created by the Big Bang."

On Wednesday, scientists announced that they had finally discovered these elusive low-frequency gravitational waves – which likely confirms Einstein's theory made over 100 years ago. The discovery was made after 15 years of data collection.

Scientists from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves announced in a news release:

The groundbreaking discovery was made by scientists with the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) who closely observed stars called pulsars that act as celestial metronomes. The newly detected gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time — are by far the most powerful ever measured: They carry roughly a million times as much energy as the one-off bursts of gravitational waves from black hole and neutron star mergers detected by experiments such as LIGO and Virgo.

"These are by far the most powerful gravitational waves known to exist," said Maura McLaughlin – the codirector of the NANOgrav Physics Frontiers Center. "Detecting such gargantuan gravitational waves requires a similarly massive detector, and patience."

NEW Discovery of Gravitational Waves | NSF's Discovery Files www.youtube.com

"It's like a choir, with all these supermassive black hole pairs chiming in at different frequencies,” said NANOGrav scientist Chiara Mingarelli. "This is the first-ever evidence for the gravitational wave background. We’ve opened a new window of observation on the universe."

Scientists describe the low-gravitational waves as making a low-pitched "hum."

"Now that we have evidence for gravitational waves, the next step is to use our observations to study the sources producing this hum," said Sarah Vigeland of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, chair of the NANOGrav detection working group.

Scientists believe the source of the low-gravitational waves is supermassive black holes crashing into each other in a death spiral.

"Those black holes are truly colossal, containing billions of suns’ worth of mass," NANOGrav explained. "Nearly all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have at least one of the behemoths at their core. When two galaxies merge, their supermassive black holes can meet up and begin orbiting one another. Over time, their orbits tighten as gas and stars pass between the black holes and steal energy."

Luke Zoltan Kelley, a theoretical astrophysicist at Northwestern University and NANOGrav, said it is possible that the low-gravitational waves could also be created by cosmic strings, dark matter, and primordial black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang.

Gravitational waves create a 'cosmic symphony' that scientists are tuning into www.youtube.com

The scientists were able to find the low-gravitational waves by data collected from 67 pulsars, basically turning these pulsars into a galaxy-wide telescope.

"They closely observed pulsars, the ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that went supernova," NANOGrav said. "Pulsars act like stellar lighthouses, shooting beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles. As the pulsars rapidly spin (sometimes hundreds of times a second), those beams sweep across the sky, appearing from our vantage point on Earth as rhythmic pulses of radio waves."

"The pulses arrive on Earth like a perfectly timed metronome," the statement read. "The timing is so precise that when Jocelyn Bell measured the first pulsar radio waves in 1967, astronomers thought they might be signals from an alien civilization."

Over the 15 years of analysis, the collision of massive cosmic bodies may have disrupted the arrival of the signals from the pulsars.

"And if that pulse is a little bit late or a little bit early, then we may be able to attribute that to a gravitational wave passing through," said Jeff Hazboun, an astrophysicist at Oregon State University and a member of the NANOGrav team.

"As a gravitational wave passes between us and a pulsar, it throws off the radio wave timing," according to Phys.org. "That’s because, as Albert Einstein predicted, gravitational waves stretch and compress space as they ripple through the cosmos, changing how far the radio waves have to travel."

NPR said, "What they found is a pattern of deviations from the expected pulsar beam arrival timings that suggests gravitational waves are jiggling space-time as though it's a vast serving of Jell-O."

Popular Mechanics noted, "And here’s the key: light travels through space at a finite speed. The flashes from a pulsar at a certain distance from Earth will always hit Earth at the same intervals, because it will always take the light the same amount of time to travel from there to here. But if there’s suddenly, say, more space between the pulsar and Earth, it will take the light longer to travel from there to here, and the clock-like timing will be thrown off."

Mingarelli declared, "What’s next is everything. This is just the beginning."

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Shocking new teenage drag queen doc from Tyra Banks, Discovery+ eviscerated online as 'child abuse,' 'grooming'



A new documentary series showcasing the lives of five teenage drag queens and their families is coming to Discovery+ this summer — and it's already facing intense backlash from critics online.

The series', "Generation Drag," executive producer is modeling superstar Tyra Banks and is set to air six episodes in June. It follows the young aspiring drag performers as they prepare for "Dragutante," a drag ball for queer teens in Denver, Colorado.

In a launch announcement last week, the production was described by network backers as a "heartfelt and joyous coming of age series" that "celebrates a group of amazingly talented teens who put their creativity, passion, and talent on center stage."

But according to several commenters online, the show amounts to "grooming" and "child abuse" and ought never to be allowed to air.

"This is child abuse," tweeted Washington Examiner opinion contributor Nicole Russell in response to a post of the show's trailer as many others on the platform vowed to cancel their Discovery+ subscriptions in protest.

Generation Drag | Official Trailer | discovery+ www.youtube.com

The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property followed up criticism with some concrete action by launching a petition demanding the show be canceled.

One supporter wrote "Say NO to grooming" on Twitter with a link to the petition, which as of Monday afternoon, had nearly 12,000 signatures.

But Howard Lee, President of TLC Streaming and Network Originals, feels much differently.

He touted the teenage drag stars' commitments to "being true to themselves and recognizing the importance of living authentically" as an "inspiration."

Tyra Banks, too, noted that she has nothing but "admiration and respect" for both the children and their supportive families.

"They are bravely navigating coming into their own in a world that can be very challenging and not always accepting. What is so beautiful is seeing their parents and siblings supporting them," Banks said in a statement. "These teens’ laser-focused tenacity inspires my team and me and we are honored to share their stories."

"I can’t wait for these popping personalities to show their fierceness to the world," she added.

A summary page on Discovery+'s website offers further details on the upcoming series, which will be released in June in honor of LGBTQ+ Pride Month.

The series was also produced by Monkey, which is part of Universal International Studios, and in association with Bankable Productions and Cat Fight Productions.

CNN+ Shutting Down After A Month!

CNN+ Shutting Down After A Month!

CNN+, the just-launched subscription network, could already be headed for disaster: Report



CNN's new subscription platform, CNN+, could already be headed for disaster.

The video streaming platform, which officially launched on Tuesday, snagged high-level talent from rival networks, most notably Chris Wallace from Fox News and Kasie Hunt from MSNBC. Actress Eva Longoria also joined the platform and will host a travel show focusing on Mexican cuisine. Many of CNN's existing talent will also host shows on CNN+.

But what is happening now?

Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino reported Wednesday that CNN+ employees could already be headed for the chopping block.

According to Gasparino, hype surrounding CNN+ failed to drive subscriptions, which suggests the expensive new start-up is already bleeding cash.

"@CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel," Gasparino reported. "CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up."

Breaking: @CNNplus employees bracing for layoffs possibly as soon as May amid projections of lackluster sales of new streaming channel; CNN employees say new streaming channel could be merged into larger @discoveryplus as early as May unless subscriptions pick up 130 @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@Charles Gasparino) 1648660513

Lackluster subscriptions would, in fact, prove immediately dangerous for CNN because of the massive investment in the new platform.

According to the Washington Post, CNN invested nearly $100 million into CNN+, which included hiring "several hundred employees to build and launch the streaming service."

Not only would poor subscription figures suggest CNN+ is already in catastrophic territory if the report is true, but the second part of Gasparino's report — that CNN+ could be folded into Discovery+ — also has legs.

Earlier this month, Discovery Inc. shareholders agreed to merge with WarnerMedia, the current parent company of CNN, in a $43 billion deal, Reuters reported. As part of the consolidation, HBO Max, a video streaming service under WarnerMedia's umbrella, will be merged with Discovery+.

Thus, if CNN+ does not have enough support to sustain its own platform, it may also find itself under Discovery's flagship streaming platform.

How did CNN respond?

A spokesperson for the network did not directly refute Gasparino's report.

"For the record, we are VERY happy with the launch of CNN+ and are only bracing for a long run of success," said Matt Dornic, CNN's head of strategic communications.