mattpotteruk.bsky.social
Journalist, author, magpie, scriptwriter, nerd. Washington Post, BBC, Literary Review, Independent. Nonfic books WE ARE ALL TARGETS & OUTLAWS INC. Science, languages, virology, art, illicit networks, cyber, psychology, weird, prehistory, subculture. He/Him
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If this suit is fought & successful, it’ll change loads.
AI companies will have to ally with IP holders, to generate AI outputs based on their owned IP (like Adobe Firefly did) & out-of-copyright works.
Outputs will evolve a visual tone, just as Shutterstock, Magnim, Disney, etc have their tone.
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Some of the examples are: We fixed acid rain! (And now nobody talks about acid rain.) We are fixing the ozone hole. Bald eagles are everywhere now. Y2K didn't destroy digital infrastructure. We (mostly) saved the whales!
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Thank you! That’s an edit blooper & like a doofus I did not pick the mutha up. :( I’ll get them to change it for future prints, so this is VERY helpful. (Plus the line on your bio ‘don’t be a cunt’ just made me actual real-life laugh, so thanks for that too!) And VERY good to hear you like the book!
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Tom Burling’s organization? You’re right, and I’m gutted to hear it says Tulip in that. Thank you very much for this - would you be able to tell me which publisher your edition is by?
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"While there is a 'day pass' for visitors, all speakers are required to pay the full registration, thank you for your understanding" -- but I don't, in fact, understand
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See Liam Fox’s/Michael Gove’s infamous Atlantic Bridge think tank, already aligning with the US Tea Party - ancestor of MAGA - in 2011. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
And Daniel Finkelstein’s warning to them back in 2020 that the US was not a reliable partner. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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I was gonna shout, ‘WHY DID NONE OF YOU TELL ME!’
But apparently Stuart Maconie did a documentary short on them for BBC 6Music.
Anyway listen to the album. Like Cocteau Twins meets Nick Cave meets Bowie and Sufjan and Supreme Vagabond Craftsman at an art thing. Amazing.
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Yes! Exactly. It’s where misguided self-regard meets dogma meets the inability to imagine consequences.
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They think they can re-set the economy. Truss and Kwarteng thought likewise. All they're doing is looking like fu**wits
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What a sentence.
(Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...)
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What we’re seeing in Trump’s behaviour is exactly what we saw with Boris Johnson & the Brexit Tory generation in the UK.
They are so publicity-focused, they forget that huge, sweeping statements & adhoc policy pronouncements are TV ratings gold… but the outside world doesn’t care, or forgive them.
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Yes!! And I just realised I forgot to get back on your last message man, apologies! It’s been weird times, but digging in now.
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It’s like a high-peeing contest into the prevailing wind.