Derryn Hinch was admitted to hospital in Melbourne to undergo treatment for a heart condition. The legendary broadcaster shared the health update on X on Saturday, revealing he is quite literally a “shock jock” now after undergoing an electric shock procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat last Thursday. “In hospital this week for electric shock to my heart to regulate heart rhythm. Guess you can now call me a shock jock,” he tweeted. Derryn Hinch was hospitalised for a heart condition on Thursday. Picture: Jason Edwards The 80-year-old shared more details with the Herald Sun , telling the masthead he has since been released from hospital and is on the mend one month on from being diagnosed with a heart condition. “I was diagnosed about a month ago with atrial fibrillation which is the medical term for an irregular heartbeat,” he said. Hinch revealed he first consulted his doctor after “getting short of breath” and thinking “this is not normal”. He was given a ECG (electrocardiogram) during which they discovered he had atrial fibrillation. Hinch celebrated his 80th birthday in South Melbourne in February. Picture: Tony Gough “My cardiologist booked me into hospital and on Thursday they gave me an electric shock to the heart, which is pretty scary, but it worked,” he said of his procedure last week, which saw him in and out of hospital within hours – he was admitted at 8am and released at 3.30pm on the same day. “It put my heart back into a regular rhythm and I will just see how it improves my breathing in the weeks ahead,” he said, adding that he felt no pain. “I am in good shape. I am feeling good.” This is Hinch’s second health battle this year . In June, he revealed he underwent weeks of daily radiation treatment for melanoma. Hinch says he is now back home and on the mend. Picture: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images The broadcaster underwent radiation treatment for melanoma in June. Picture: Facebook “I’m getting there. On Monday, I start Week 3 of my radiation treatment at the Alfred for facial skin cancer,” he posted on Facebook at the time. “So far, no side effects like tiredness, and scarring is minimal. Staff fantastic.” Hinch told the Sunday Herald Sun a cancerous spot on his forehead was discovered in February and removed by a doctor, but he needed further surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He underwent a total of five successful rounds of radiation. He had a previous skin cancer issuer on the other side of his face eight years ago. Tests showed it was clear. He also underwent a liver transplant in 2011. More Coverage ‘Brutal’: King Charles at breaking point Daniela Elser Star’s sad social media confession Angela Mollard Originally published as Legendary broadcaster Derryn Hinch hospitalised for heart condition Celebrity Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Celebrity Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. More related stories Celebrity Life Beloved TV star dead after health battle A veteran actor known for his roles on hit series Stranger Things, Dynasty and Magnum, P.I., has died following a health battle. Read more Celebrity Life ‘I lost everything’: Star ‘axed’ for coming out *NSYNC singer Lance Bass claims he “lost everything” after he came out as gay, with one particular project axed by a major studio. Read more
Tehran refutes IAEA statement, says nuclear activities transparentArticle content When you march, shout, smash windows and burn cars in a big city , you’re going to get attention. You’re going to invite police, tear gas, scuffles and arrests, and make news, which is the point of protest. And so it was with the band of malcontents who filled the streets of Montreal this weekend. They loath those inside the Palais des Congrès and their purpose. Too bad; our fellow travellers might have learned something about peace and freedom. Inside the Palais, which was locked down, representatives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were considering the state of the alliance. They talked about strengthening NATO’s integrated defences, using AI in the military domain, ending sexual violence in conflict and the impact of climate change. They talked about the future. Most important, they addressed Ukraine, the war of 1,000 days that began when the Russians invaded in 2022. Since then, NATO has supported Ukraine with training, money and munitions, all critical to its survival. Let us say this: If NATO did not exist today, Ukraine wouldn’t, either. Demonstrators fill Ste-Catherine St. during a protest by the Collectif Désinvestir pour la Palestine and the Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC) in Montreal Friday Nov. 22, 2024. The demonstration was in support of Palestine and in opposition to the meeting of NATO parliamentarians in Montreal. Photo by John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette In the streets of Montreal, the real cause was Palestine, the Israeli offensive in Gaza and Canada’s response. There is enough there to power a protest – “solidarity with Palestine,” the crowd chanted – and they should have left it at that. But they decided to expand their geopolitical complaint to demand that Canada “get out of NATO”. The protesters, some waving Communist Party of Canada flags, think NATO is dangerous, which, if you’re Communist, you would. Communists and their woolly-minded allies on the barricades railed against “the complicity” of NATO in the war in Gaza. They made it about NATO, about Canada, and why we should withdraw from this congress of warmongers. Well, no, we shouldn’t. NATO is indispensable to our security. And since our friends in the streets claim compassion for the besieged Palestinians – as they should – they might want to stretch a bit, read a bit and understand that the greater injustice in the world today is Ukraine. In the largest country in Europe, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been wounded or killed. Villages, towns and cities razed. Utilities bombed. Innocents imprisoned, tortured and raped. Children abducted. Art and artefacts looted. Since the beginning of the conflict, NATO has stood with Ukraine. Led by Joe Biden and the United States, NATO has armed Ukraine. It has stopped short of entering the fray but has tried – sometimes belatedly, inadequately, agonizingly – to give Ukraine a chance against a country several times its size. To stop Vladimir Putin and contain his expansionism, which is a threat to the Baltics, Moldova, Poland and beyond. The importance of NATO as the world’s most successful alliance goes beyond Ukraine. From the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, it ensured the survival of Western Europe. Just ask the burghers of West Berlin. In all that time, Canada has remained a member of the alliance. Under the leadership of Lester Pearson, as foreign minister, Canada helped found NATO in 1949. We wrote Article 2 of the NATO Charter, in hope of making it as much a political, social and economic alliance as a military one. That never happened. But Pearson – who won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering peace in the Suez Crisis in 1956 – considered NATO his greatest achievement in foreign affairs. In the post-war world, when Canada fielded a fine foreign service, funded international aid and maintained a robust military, we found the will and the way to station forces in Germany. Our commitment to NATO was always greater than our commitment to peacekeeping, the angelic international vocation we’ve since abandoned. Now NATO faces a crisis over Donald Trump, an isolationist who says Canada and other members are free riders in the organization from which he threatens to withdraw, which would devastate it. Meanwhile he blithely tells Putin to do whatever he wants. Memo to the protesters: if you really care about dignity and democracy, protest Trump, Putin and a Canada that’s no longer serious about the world. Andrew Cohen is a commentator, journalist and author of While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World.
BRIDGEWATER — Jaden Alsberry is closing in on a remarkable career milestone in her fifth season at Bridgewater. The 6-foot-3 Strasburg alum has tallied 929 points across 89 games played with the Eagles and is 71 points shy of becoming just the 23rd player in program history to accumulate 1,000 career points. Chasing that feat is something that excited Alsberry as she returned to the Eagles for her graduate season. Yet, it’s not in the forefront of her mind as Bridgewater continues an impressive unbeaten start, sitting at 9-0 thus far. “It means a lot,” Alsberry said. “I haven’t really thought about it. I’ve just been thinking more about the team and our success.” Alsberry had all the tools to be a force on the court when she arrived at Bridgewater, but she didn’t always have the confidence to go with it. It’s been a consistent struggle throughout Alsberry’s career to get in her own head and overthink matters when on the court. Yet, with some maturity and a great support system, Alsberry has diminished those negative thoughts as the years have gone on. “Freshman year, I had little to no confidence,” Alsberry said. “Each year, it’s been something I’ve been trying to work on, especially with [BC head] coach [Stephanie] Flamini. Over the years, she’s really been trying to pour confidence into me and just make sure I don’t get in my head. ... I think this year, I’ve been harder on just, ‘You miss a shot, just get back and do better on defense.’ I think my confidence has definitely grown over the years.” Bridgewater’s Jaden Alsberry reacts to a call during a game earlier this season. Flamini has witnessed Alsberry’s stronger mentality develop firsthand. “When I get on them, she handles it better than she used to,” Flamini said. “She keeps what I expect in the forefront for everyone. Always trying to learn, always trying to do better. I think her confidence has improved. ... Jaden’s come a long way there. She’s getting close to her 1,000th point. We’re really excited about that and we want her to continue to be confident.” Having the belief and trust of the BC coaching staff has gone a long way in helping Alsberry be the player she is today. “I think having a good coaching staff that believes in you and is always making sure you are confident in yourself is definitely helpful,” Alsberry said. Bridgewater’s Jaden Alsberry goes up for a shot against Roanoke during a game last season. Between her growing relationship with the coaching staff and work behind the scenes, Flamini sees that confidence exuding from Alsberry when she’s on the court. “Give her a lot of credit,” Flamini said. “She’s been in the gym. When you’re in the gym working hard, I think your confidence automatically has to go up, because you’re prepared. You’re more prepared than others.” Alsberry’s fifth season with the Eagles is bittersweet as she knows it’s her final. Like the 1,000-point mark, Alsberry isn’t focusing on the emotions yet as she’s doing what she can to enjoy every last second of playing at Bridgewater. “It kind of feels unreal,” Alsberry said. “I don’t know. It doesn’t feel like it’s my last year. I’m sure as we get closer to the end of the season, it’ll definitely all sink in. I’m just trying to make the most of it.”Manhattan police have obtained a warrant for the arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Nicholas Mangione , suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson . Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, while carrying a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush. Mangione is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. Late Monday, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with five counts, including murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument. Here's the latest: That’s according to a spokesperson for the governor who said Gov. Hochul will do it as soon as possible. Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of a healthcare executive in New York City, apparently was living a charmed life: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities. Friends at an exclusive co-living space at the edge of touristy Waikiki in Hawaii where the 26-year-old Mangione once lived widely considered him a “great guy,” and pictures on his social media accounts show a fit, smiling, handsome young man on beaches and at parties. Now, investigators in New York and Pennsylvania are working to piece together why Mangione may have diverged from this path to make the violent and radical decision to gun down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a brazen attack on a Manhattan street. The killing sparked widespread discussions about corporate greed, unfairness in the medical insurance industry and even inspired folk-hero sentiment toward his killer. ▶ Read more about Luigi Mangione Peter Weeks, the Blair County district attorney, says he’ll work with New York officials to try to return suspect Luigi Mangione there to face charges. Weeks said the New York charges are “more serious” than in Blair County. “We believe their charges take precedent,” Weeks said, promising to do what’s needed to accommodate New York’s prosecution first. Weeks spoke to reporters after a brief hearing at which a defense lawyer said Mangione will fight extradition. The defense asked for a hearing on the issue. In the meantime, Mangione will be detained at a state prison in western Pennsylvania. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said Tuesday it will seek a Governor’s warrant to secure Mangione’s extradition to Manhattan. Under state law, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul can issue a warrant of arrest demanding Mangione’s return to the state. Such a warrant must recite the facts necessary to the validity of its issuance and be sealed with the state seal. It would then be presented to law enforcement in Pennsylvania to expedite Mangione’s return to New York. But Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks says it won’t be a substantial barrier to returning Mangione to New York. He noted that defendants contest extradition “all the time,” including in simple retail theft cases. Dickey, his defense lawyer, questioned whether the second-degree murder charge filed in New York might be eligible for bail under Pennsylvania law, but prosecutors raised concerns about both public safety and Mangione being a potential flight risk, and the judge denied it. Mangione will continue to be housed at a state prison in Huntingdon. He has 14 days to challenge the detention. Prosecutors, meanwhile, have a month to seek a governor’s warrant out of New York. Mangione, wearing an orange jumpsuit, mostly stared straight ahead at the hearing, occasionally consulting papers, rocking in his chair, or looking back at the gallery. At one point, he began to speak to respond to the court discussion, but was quieted by his lawyer. Luigi Mangione, 26, has also been denied bail at a brief court hearing in western Pennsylvania. He has 14 days to challenge the bail decision. That’s with some intervention from owner Elon Musk. The account, which hasn’t posted since June, was briefly suspended by X. But after a user inquired about it in a post Monday, Musk responded “This happened without my knowledge. Looking into it.” The account was later reinstated. Other social media companies such as Meta have removed his accounts. According to X rules, the platform removes “any accounts maintained by individual perpetrators of terrorist, violent extremist, or mass violent attacks, as well as any accounts glorifying the perpetrator(s), or dedicated to sharing manifestos and/or third party links where related content is hosted.” Mangione is not accused of perpetrating a terrorist or mass attack — he has been charged with murder — and his account doesn’t appear to share any writings about the case. He shouted something that was partly unintelligible, but referred to an “insult to the intelligence of the American people.” He’s there for an arraignment on local charges stemming from his arrest Monday. He was dressed in an orange jumpsuit as officers led him from a vehicle into the courthouse. Local defense lawyer Thomas Dickey is expected to represent the 26-year-old at a Tuesday afternoon hearing at the Blair County Courthouse. Dickey declined comment before the hearing. Mangione could have the Pennsylvania charges read aloud to him and may be asked to enter a plea. They include possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. In New York, he was charged late Monday with murder in the death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione likely was motivated by his anger with what he called “parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain with corporate greed, said a a law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. He wrote that the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and that the profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, according to the bulletin, based on a review of the suspect’s hand-written notes and social media postings. He appeared to view the targeted killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO as a symbolic takedown, asserting in his note that he is the “first to face it with such brutal honesty,” the bulletin said. Mangione called “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski a “political revolutionary” and may have found inspiration from the man who carried out a series of bombings while railing against modern society and technology, the document said. A felony warrant filed in New York cites Altoona Officer Christy Wasser as saying she found the writings along with a semi-automatic pistol and an apparent silencer. The filing echoes earlier statements from NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny who said Mangione had a three-page, handwritten document that shows “some ill will toward corporate America.” Mangione is now charged in Pennsylvania with being a fugitive of justice. A customer at the McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was arrested said one of his friends had commented beforehand that the man looked like the suspect wanted for the shooting in New York City. “It started out almost a little bit like a joke, my one friend thought he looked like the shooter,” said the customer, who declined to give his full name, on Tuesday. “It wasn’t really a joke, but we laughed about it,” he added. The warrant on murder and other charges is a step that could help expedite his extradition from Pennsylvania. In court papers made public Tuesday, a New York City police detective reiterated key findings in the investigation he said tied Mangione to the killing, including surveillance footage and a fake ID he used to check into a Manhattan hostel on Nov. 24. Police officers in Altoona, Pennsylvania, found that ID when they arrested Mangione on Monday. Mangione is being held without bail in Pennsylvania on charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. Late Monday, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with five counts, including murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a forged instrument. Mangione doesn’t yet have a lawyer who can speak on his behalf, court officials said. Images of Mangione released Tuesday by Pennsylvania State Police showed him pulling down his mask in the corner of the McDonald’s while holding what appeared to be hash browns and wearing a winter jacket and ski cap. In another photo from a holding cell, he stood unsmiling with rumpled hair. Mangione’s cousin, Maryland lawmaker Nino Mangione, announced Tuesday morning that he’s postponing a fundraiser planned later this week at the Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore, which was purchased by the Mangione family in 1986. “Because of the nature of this terrible situation involving my Cousin I do not believe it is appropriate to hold my fundraising event scheduled for this Thursday at Hayfields,” Nino Mangione said in a social media post. “I want to thank you for your thoughts, prayers, and support. My family and I are heartbroken and ask that you remember the family of Mr. Thompson in your prayers. Thank you.” Officers used New York City’s muscular surveillance system . Investigators analyzed DNA samples, fingerprints and internet addresses. Police went door to door looking for witnesses. When an arrest came five days later , those sprawling investigative efforts shared credit with an alert civilian’s instincts. A customer at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania noticed another patron who resembled the man in the oblique security-camera photos New York police had publicized. He remains jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. By late Monday evening, prosecutors in Manhattan had added a charge of murder, according to an online court docket. It’s unclear whether Luigi Nicholas Mangione has an attorney who can comment on the allegations. Asked at Monday’s arraignment whether he needed a public defender, Mangione asked whether he could “answer that at a future date.”Romania's far-right candidate Calin Georgescu on Saturday urged voters to go to polling stations despite the country's top court having scrapped the presidential elections over alleged irregularities amid claims of Russian interference. The court's shock ruling, coming just before the presidential run-off which had been due Sunday, opens the way for a new electoral process starting from scratch in the EU and NATO member state bordering war-torn Ukraine. The annulment follows a spate of intelligence documents declassified by the presidency this week detailing allegations against Georgescu and Russia, including claims of "massive" social media promotion and cyberattacks. Georgescu -- who unexpectedly topped last month's first round of voting -- called for voters on Sunday "to wait to be welcomed, to wait for democracy to win through their power", said a statement from his team. "Mr. Calin Georgescu believes that voting is an earned right," said the statement. "That is why he believes that Romanians have the right to be in front of the polling stations tomorrow." Georgescu himself would go to a polling station near Bucharest at 0600 GMT, said his team. Earlier Saturday, police raided three houses in Brasov city in central Romania as part of the investigation "in connection with crimes of voter corruption, money laundering, computer forgery". Among the houses searched was that of businessman Bogdan Peschir, a TikTok user who according to the declassified documents allegedly paid $381,000 to those involved in the promotion of Georgescu, Romanian media reported. Peschir has compared his support for Georgescu to the world's richest man Elon Musk's backing of US president-elect Donald Trump. Little-known outsider Georgescu, a 62-year-old former senior civil servant, was favourite to win the second round on Sunday against centrist pro-EU mayor Elena Lasconi, 52, according to several polls. But the constitutional court on Friday unanimously decided to annul the entire electoral process as it was "marred... by multiple irregularities and violations of electoral legislation". President Klaus Iohannis said on Saturday that he had discussed with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, and they agreed on the "need to strengthen the security of social media". The European Commission announced earlier this week that it had stepped up monitoring TikTok after Romania's authorities alleged "preferential treatment" of Georgescu on the platform -- a claim the company has denied. Following the court's decision, the United States said it had faith in Romania's institutions and called for a "peaceful democratic process". Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., on X branded the vote's cancellation an "attempt at rigging the outcome" and "denying the will of the people". Georgescu called it "a formalised coup d'etat" and said democracy was "under attack". His team on Saturday declined to comment on the raids, saying they "will not comment or provide answers until we have exact data". Georgescu and another far-right party, the AUR, have said they plan to appeal the decision to stop the voting to the High Court of Cassation and Justice. A past admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Georgescu, an EU and NATO sceptic, in recent days had reframed himself as "ultra pro-Trump," vowing to put Romania "on the world map" and cut aid for neighbouring Ukraine. In an interview with US broadcaster Sky News on Saturday, Georgescu said there were no links between him and Russia. Political scientist Costin Ciobanu told AFP that the annulment has "further polarised Romanian society". With trust in institutions and the ruling class already low, the vote's cancellation poses a "major danger that Romanians will think that it doesn't matter how they vote", Ciobanu added. Elsewhere in the EU, Austria annulled presidential elections in 2016 because of procedural irregularities. In Romania, a new government is expected to set another date for the presidential vote. In last weekend's legislative elections, the ruling Social Democrats came top. But far-right parties made big gains, securing an unprecedented third of the ballots on mounting anger over soaring inflation and fears over Russia's war in Ukraine. In a joint appeal on Wednesday, the Social Democrats and three other pro-EU parties -- together making up an absolute majority in parliament -- signed an agreement to form a coalition, promising "stability". bur-jza/jjLetter to the Editor | 'Bidenomics' has been successful
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British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. The pair landed the accolade because they used physics to develop artificial neural networks, which help computers learn without having to program them. These networks form the foundation of machine learning, a computer science that relies on data and algorithms to help artificial intelligence mimic the human brain. Hinton and Hopfield's path to the Nobel began when Hopfield, who is now a professor emeritus at Princeton University, invented a network in 1982 that could store and reconstruct images in data. The Hopfield network uses associate memory, which humans use to remember what something looks like when it's not in front of them or to conjure up a word they know but seldom use. The network can mirror this process because it stores patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method then searches for the stored pattern that is most similar to recreate data. This means if a computer was shown, for example, a photo of dog where only part of the animal was visible, it could use the network to piece together the missing part of the image and recognize it was depicting a dog. Hinton, who was working at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1985, used the Hopfield network as the foundation for a new network he called the Boltzmann machine. Its name came from the nineteenth-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The Boltzmann machine learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives out the Nobel, likens this to how humans may be able to identify someone as a relative of one of their friends, even if they've never met this person before, because of they share similar traits. The Boltzmann machine works in a similar way, classifying images or creating new examples based on the patterns it was trained on. This kind of technology can help suggest films or television shows based on a user's preferences and past viewing history The Hopfield network and Boltzmann machine are considered to have laid the groundwork for modern AI. Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, went on to win the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, with fellow Canadian Yoshua Bengio and American Yan LeCun in 2018. He is often called the godfather of AI. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 8, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press
The DailyWire+ satirical documentary Am I Racist? broke records by making more than $12 million at the box office. It also landed a session in Deadline’s awards-season showcase Contenders Documentary . In the movie, director Justin Folk films Matt Walsh infiltrating leaders in diversity movements and causing a scene in disguise. Walsh interrupted a Saira Rao dinner lecture decrying white women by dropping stacks of plates. While Walsh and Folk disagree with the sentiments expressed by activists like Rao, they also spoke with regular Americans in Black and white communities. Walsh said the message is that Americans want to move on from discussing race. “I think for a lot of people, they feel like, ‘Let’s move on. Let’s not dwell on these things,’” Walsh said. “By the way, that was the message we heard in the film, not just from white people. We went down south to Louisiana — a Black community in Louisiana, New Orleans — and we heard the same thing. They said, ‘Look, I’m not focused on this racism thing. Let’s just live our lives.’” Folk agreed that people want to move on, adding that many they spoke with entertained discussions of race out of politeness. “I think people in general, whether it be white men or white women or anybody in between, even minorities, they’re polite,” Folk said. “They don’t want to be called haters. They don’t want to be called bigots. They don’t want to be called racist, and I think they’ve taken advantage of that and pushed an agenda and overstepped with that.” Asked whether they acknowledged that there has been structural racism in the past, they concurred there has been. Walsh said credit is also due for correcting those systems. RELATED: Contenders Documentary — Deadline’s Complete Coverage “We are a country that had slavery at one point,” Walsh said. “That’s a pretty good example. Now, although slavery existed as an institution all across the world for thousands of years, in this country it certainly was a racist institution. Nobody denies that. But, in modern America as it stands today, there are no laws or policies on the books that have the intention of disadvantaging Black people, people that we call, quote unquote, people of color. That doesn’t exist today, and I think you have to allow society to progress.” Walsh also pushed back on the notion that the legacies of racist policies, such as Black soldiers being excluded from the GI Bill, still have impacts on minorities. He suggested that one wouldn’t have to go back far to find oppression in anyone’s lineage. RELATED: The 2025 Oscars: Everything We Know So Far About The Nominations, Ceremony, Date & Host “If my Irish ancestors, for example, were not horrifically discriminated against in the early part of the 20th century, where would my life be today?” Walsh said. “At a certain point you have to decide either we are going to stay dwelling on the past and trying to cash in on things that didn’t even happen to us but happened to people 100 years ago. Or we’re going to just move on and say, ‘Now is today. It’s the present moment, and we now live in a situation in a country where we can take charge of our own lives.’” Folk agreed with the goal to move forward “and not repeat the same mistakes of the past, which were mistakes made because of race.” Check back Monday for the panel video.