Peter Joelson

Congratulations! I haven't read my copy today, so will do so NOW!

I like Charles Dutoit's recording a lot. I must listen to John Wilson's.....

Boult, last recording....

The four Legends with Okko Kamu....

New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias New research suggests that ChatGPT and other leading AI models display an alarming bias towards other AIs over humans.

"Do you like AI models? Well, chances are, they sure don't like you back."

"New research suggests that the industry's leading large language models ... display an alarming bias towards other AIs when they're asked to choose between human and machine-generated content."

futurism.com/chatgpt-deep...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying It's time for a reckoning.

"Mark Zuckerberg probably doesn’t think of himself as an evil villain."

"But read it here, read it twice: Zuckerberg is a genuine danger to our society."

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Hiawatha's Wedding Feast was performed in Cape Town, South Africa several times, conducted by 'Doc' Claude Brown, the last in 1964. Doc was also DoM at the school I was at. He'd met Avril on her trip to SA in the early 1950s.

Eric Ravilious : Newhaven, East Sussex 1940

Eric Slater : A Sussex Farmstead 1935

Eric Ravilious : Buscot Park, Faringdon 1938

Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary 15 years after the removal from his kidney of the biggest tumour in Stockport, Russell Jones commemorates the agony and reflects on the heroism of the NHS doctors and nurses who saw him through

Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary

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66 The 50% reciprocal tariff introduced by the U.S. government is going to kill the textile and apparel sector in Lesotho .... So Lesotho will be dead, so to say. Thabo Qhesi, Maseru-based independent economic analyst Reuters

Trump’s tariffs will cause pain for big countries but are disastrous for small ones. Take Lesotho, one of the world’s poorest nations - a country Trump said no one had ever heard of - which has just been hit with a 50% tariff.

These are crimes against the world.

YouTube video by Alain Cazes Speech againt Trump, by french senator, Claude Malhuret. ( English subtitles )

French Senator Claude Malhuret doesn't mince words over tRump, Putin.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIK9...

😂

That's brave! Envying your being in Dublin....

this is the kind of thing that people obsessed with ending "woke diversity and inclusion policies"

want to enable, encourage and ignore

Eric Ravilious : Leaving Scapa Flow 1940 HMS Highlander

The Inghelbrecht looks interesting. I see it includes transfers of his Ducretet-Thomson recordings, too.

There are far many more people on classical music Bluesky than could fit in a starter pack, but for those of you new here from the bad place, this is a good place to start!

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Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It was painted at fellow artist Peggy Angus’s cottage near Firle looking towards the South Downs, in East #Sussex. The original artwork is in a private collection. #Ravilious

Downs in Winter, Eric Ravilious, 1935. A classic view of the Southdowns in East #Sussex. The original artwork is in the collection of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. #Ravilious

Apologies for absence of following back and posting during three months in hospital. Meanwhile here's Eric Ravilious : Farm House and Field, 1941 from @ravilious_1942
Ironbridge Farm, Shalford, Essex. The original artwork is in a private collection.

#classicalmusic On tour in Moscow 1956, Boult and Fistoulari a rarity!

www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

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Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them Among the spindly saline roots of the mangrove trees that line western Mexico’s coast, the jaguar is the ecosystem’s apex predator. Yet despite being at the top of the food chain, its existence is thr...

The environmental costs of farmed shrimp are wide ranging

Western Mexico’s rapidly expanding shrimp farms, many of which are illegal, are contributing to the deforestation of the Pacific coast’s mangroves, an important habitat for jaguars:

Email screenshot reads “San Francisco Symphony management has proposed slashing the San Francisco Symphony Chorus budget by 80%. You read that correctly. 80%. The chorus accounts for a little over 1% of the overall budget and is vital in attracting audiences and donors. Simply put, ticket sales are higher when we are singing. The financial rationale for such severe cuts simply doesn’t add up. The Symphony has informed us that it projects a $12.5 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year. Putting aside the assumption that this deficit must be solved only through cuts rather than improved fundraising or patron development, cutting $800,000 of the Chorus’s roughly $1 million cost won’t cover this. Cutting 80% of their approximately $75 million in expenses across the board would save nearly $60 million, indicating these cuts unreasonably target the Chorus.”

The San Francisco Symphony is hell bent on running its artistic operations into the ground

Perhaps I ought to have expressed myself less ambiguously. I used "read" in the past tense, as in "I just read your Guardian post".......

Just read your Guardian post. US creating a dangerous vacuum.