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Trailblazing young(ish) composer. Main site: https://hutchingsmusic.co.uk Songs trying to save the world: http://choirsforclimate.com Listen: http://soundcloud.com/hutchingsmusic Videos: http://youtube.com/@choirsforclimate he/they, Edinburgh
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 6 hours ago • 81 comments

Here's one for tonight: soundcloud.com/hutchingsmus... "Why We Sing" for 2-part choir & piano - I'd love to get more performances of this. Dramatic, about the power of singing, should work for any combination of voices. Links in SoundCloud description. #CreativeCommons licensed.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I keep thinking "I should post music instead of politics" - what music would people like to hear? Anyone looking for new stuff to perform at the moment (particularly choir people)?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"disability benefits have the lowest rate of fraud, with DWP’s own figures showing that fraud by claimants of personal independence payment fell from 0.2 per cent in 2022-23 to 0.0 per cent in 2023-24, while fraud by disability living allowance claimants was estimated to be just 0.1 per cent"

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BAE Systems arms states that are engaged in human rights atrocities like Israel and Saudi Arabia. Yet the Scottish Government is giving them millions in grants. We must stop funding multinational arms companies, and instead use that money to support people in Scotland.

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Hello! 🤘 Names for Bands is a fun project I started back in 2010, long before Twitter was ruined and stopped being fun. I’m always coming up with band names, and some of the best inspiration comes from stuff other people post. So I’ll be sharing the best ones I find, and feel free to suggest one!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

More than one deadline: deadlines More than one set of deadlines: deadliness I don't know why, it was funny in my head

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I had occasion to give a speech to my local rotary club today, and I made a point of getting specific about the funds that the government is denying to my org. Multiple people thanked me for the specificity, because they hadn't yet heard ANY specific stories of how the cuts are hitting real people.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1219 comments

In days like these it is worth remembering that: a) Russia invaded Ukraine, b) Russia had previously given security guarantees to Ukraine that it would not threaten or use military force or economic coercion. It's time for European leaders to stand with Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Very glad we live in a country where, while I might not always agree with the first minister, he's at least a sensible adult who understands the urgency of the climate situation. (This shouldn't be a high bar to clear!)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

👏John Swinney👏 The Scottish First Minister could have kept his head down and let the climate denialist voices rise But he's rightly said major parties should unite against these views which "fly in the face of reality” www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

If I see anyone I know posting about their use of ChatGPT or similar LLMs on LinkedIn (other than possibly a very small amount of taking the piss) I will remove that connection. Happened twice so far.

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Coincidentally read this part of Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!" over lunch. (My first Pratchett book.) Here, the soon-to-be-former heads of the city are realizing there's a new monster in charge, each wishing one of the others would stand in protest. I heard Pratchett was incisive, but dang. 👀

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

My hair is blown backwards by the spectacle of JP Morgan launching a new note about climate impacts whilst they continue to actively lend their immense power towards worsening those impacts www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @eroston.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

VACANCY | We're hiring a Production Manager (Maternity Cover) to oversee logistical and technical operations. Full Job Description 👇 3choirs.org/jobs/product... Applications close at Midnight on Sun 9 March.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Singing at protests. Make them hear you. (if your protest involves climate, find more things to sing at choirsforclimate.com/music/protes... )

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This sums up the current state of today's language generating AI pretty much perfectly. It's not sentient in any sense, and it won't become sentient with its current structure or anything similar to it. If a genuine general-intelligence AI ever emerges, it will be from something totally different.

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Hi folks, I'm Penny Stone. I'm listening to lots of Pete Seeger stuff at the moment to help keep hopeful and connect with struggles that came before us (many ongoing...!) so I thought making a place to share some of the amazing footage of him singing and speaking would help keep hope afloat. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

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