(Forwarding as received this morning):
Mike Batt
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
“HELLO, public!” An extraordinary conversation with one of the most versatile, brilliant, and fiercely independent forces in British music history. Mike Batt, LVO is offering up his five guests this week on the pod, bringing his five-time Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter, conductor, and producer FIVE-DECADE career to bear on all things ‘fantasy dinner’ - one decade for each guest. Mike's melodies are woven directly into the fabric of global pop culture, from Katy Melua ('Closest Thing to Crazy’), through Art Garfunkel (‘Bright Eyes’), right back to the British establishment that is…The Wombles (‘Remember you’re a…’). Now he’s back in the classical music fray with a moving and timely new work, The Ukraine Symphony recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. In the course of the episode, Tim Lihoreau touches on SO much - not least upping sticks and sailing around the world just as success struck AND…exactly what it was that Sir Paul McCartney said to him, that time! But will he take The Gatecrasher, chosen for him by Tim? Find out by listening to the full fabulous episode Global Player. Follow on Instagram: @classicfm@timlihoreau @guesswhoscomingtodinner_pod
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/VGdg8Vi6XG
In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters.
Concerns about negative environmental effects, public health, increasing utility prices, proximity to homes.
Data centres don't generate many jobs.
Will Britons follow suit?
https://t.co/oMV7dZfVhk
Water is not a commodity. It is a birthright. It belongs to the earth, to other species, and to future generations. No corporation has the right to control it.
Mientras tanto, en EEUU, una abuela de 93 años, llamada Mary, que sigue trabajando en un cine AMC para pagar sus facturas, sin poderse jubilar, limpiando la basura que la gente deja atrás en las salas.
Este es el futuro del capitalismo, que trabajes hasta morir sin poder jubilarte para pagar las facturas de los seguros médicos privados.
‘BACKROOMS’ director Kane Parsons says he would get “no enjoyment” out of using generative AI on any project — “It defeats the purpose entirely for me.”
“I think I'm in the same boat as most well-adjusted people. If I could snap my fingers and make generative Al disappear forever, I probably would.”
(Source: https://t.co/LA3K1o9KjK)
Women are being punished for speaking out about the very abuse they’re trying to expose.
Grok may be new, but the impulse behind deepfake misogyny is anything but.
https://t.co/rev8QPk5Dg
Buy back Royal Mail, 76% want public ownership
It would cost around £3.6 billion
Put households on the board and raise the standards
This 500 year old institution worked well until it was privatised, it should not be owned by a Czech billionaire
https://t.co/c1zbbS73iM
This [Dreamstone Overture #3] is nothing to do with my new symphony! https://t.co/y4bFZQnJFO But just FYI The symphony is out on Friday and we'd love some pre-orders! 🙂 🙏 🎶 from: https://t.co/8i8OhqGlyn
💔 This was HEARTBREAKING
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:
"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."