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NYT: John Barbata, Turtles and C.S.N.Y. Drummer, Dies at 79
Barbata belonged to marquee bands of the late ’60s and ’70s, drumming on smash hits such as “Happy Together,” the first song he recorded with the Turtles.
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John Barbata, the drummer for the Turtles, Jefferson Airplane, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who walked away from rock music at the height of his career, has died. He was 79.
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David Geffen, who had just started his first record label, invited Mr. Barbata to join a new group called the Eagles, but he declined, saying he couldn’t leave C.S.N.Y., according to a profile on him in the book “Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties” by Bob Cianci.
NYT: FIFA Set to Roll Back Reforms Enacted After Corruption Scandal
FIFA tried to put a corruption crisis behind by changing its rules and claiming its governance overhaul had the endorsement of the Justice Department. U.S. officials say that was never the case.
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Less than a decade later, soccer’s appetite for reform appears to have waned. An outside audit of African soccer’s governing body, commissioned after FIFA took control of the organization, suggested tens of millions of dollars in misappropriated funds. The governing bodies for Europe and for North and Central America have backed away from reforms or ignored promised ones altogether, according to a comparison of public pledges and concrete actions. The Asian soccer confederation will vote this week on scrapping term limits for its senior leadership.
And on Friday in Bangkok, Mr. Infantino and FIFA will ask its members to approve a slate of changes to its statutes that would roll back yet more of the changes he once embraced, and restore structures that he had sought to sweep away.
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Salon: “Why am I f***ing listening to you?”: Bill Burr rips Bill Maher’s “very simple solution” to Gaza war
Comedian Bill Burr took Bill Maher to task over campus protests stemming from Israel’s war in Gaza and cancel culture, among other topics, during Sunday’s episode of the “Club Random with Bill Maher” podcast.
Maher during the episode alleged that campus protesters supporting Gazans are “in with the terrorists.”
“They were for the Palestinians,” Burr countered. The comedian added that he is “on the side of the kids,” prompting a tense exchange.
Platformer: Google’s broken link to the web
“Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers,” read an accurate headline in the Washington Post on Monday. Until now, publishers have been able to rely on significant volumes of traffic coming from the blue links that appear under many queries. But what the company is now calling AI overviews often obscure these links, requiring users to click to see them, or simply abstracting them away in an automatically generated summary. Analysts who have studied the company’s early experiments with SGE say a bloodbath is coming.
Last Updated: 15.May.2024 23:57 EDT