If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
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BREAKING: βWhat we call 'minor offences', for most people would have a major impact on their lives"
Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi on why she will not be voting for the Government's reforms to the justice system today, as they would reduce the number of jury trialsπ
Ahead of the Second Reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, Post Office Horizon victim Jo Hamilton OBE has written to David Lammy expressing her opposition to the Governmentβs plans to curtail the right to trial by jury
More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wow! What a coincidence!
They were probably almost right behind one another in the queue for the photograher, too, given the closeness of their numbers.
π’πͺ¨ Abram and Abram.
Both Abrams, but different surnames: Sendrowicz (top) and Kuperberg (above).
This looks like a different chap? And he has 21278 on his tunic, whereas the strip above has 21282?
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
10 March 1921 | A Polish Jew, Abram Sendrowicz, was born in MniΓ³w. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 1 October 1941.
No. 21282
He perished in the camp on 31 October 1941.
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π§/π Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://bit.ly/46t6L5w
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Works the other way, too. He promised me one of his Mum's linoprint bookmarks and failed to include it.
Forgiven, but not forgotten (they were very lovely bookmarks and I shall forever mourn the phantom of mine).
This article is eviscerating in its snark, and led me down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia pages of the aristocracy that finished with this section about John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol.
TLDR: Maybe we shouldn't eat the rich, but only because they've all got CJD.
NEW: Is this the broligarchyβs first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what weβre seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasnβt replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
NEW POST: The Governmentβs use of unaccountable βexpertsβ for SEND reform is shutting down debate & excluding vital voices: those of parents and people across the sector who don't agree with themβand says Dr Kieron Smith, it's undemocratic: www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
As a piece of factual reporting, it is without peer, hence its deserving All The Awards.
Superb.
The description of Oakeshott occupying 'the grim perineum between journalism and politics' deserves an award unto itself.
Precision scorcher of a rebuttal of Uta Frith's recent 'overdiagnosis' claims in the Sunday Times.
www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...
Chassy longew, according to Nanny Ogg.
The Observer on ex-patriot immigrants to the UAE.
Good job, Sir Ed.
(Love that Winnie appears to be giving Trump an Agincourt salute in this picture.)
#GBeebies
The official record says a pass degree in economics, although I'm more than willing to believe it was actually earned by a ghostwriter / essay mill.
π¨On Tuesday the Prime Minister will order MPs to vote to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - the right to trial by jury. Itβs a move that will set us on a path to toward authoritarian justice.
MPs must step up and tell him NO
On this day in 1943, a 19 year old Polish woman perished in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 1 month and 8 days. Her name was Helena Grzelec
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Went base over apex, face-first, into a quarry-tiled surface and broke my nose. When people asked me how I'd done it:
I fought the floor and the (PING)
Floor won.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
8 March 1890 | A Pole, JΓ³zef BaΕuk, was born in Krakow. A Polish railway worker.
He was deported to #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 from TarnΓ³w in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 756
He perished in the camp on 18 February 1941.
Will he be debuting a new clerical vestment to replace the cope: the Episcopal Anorak?
David Lammy faces defeat in the Commons over his plans to curb jury trials unless he reverses his position, rebel Labour MPs have warned
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
The CPS found 12 staff failed in their legal duty of care to Laura. In a letter, prosecutors said: βThe evidence clearly proves that [doctors] prescribed incorrect levels of IV paracetamol for Laura due to her low body weight, which was administered without question by nurses.β
Is there π’π―πΊ Thatcher sell-off of public services that has been a success? If so, why are the Greens of England and Wales the only one of the London parties with "reversing privatisation" as a cornerstone of their policy platform?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the lifeβs work of the UKβs creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so.
But they are wrong, for three reasons.
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