No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted
If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the…
This is depressing enough as it is, but The Guardian haven't provided any figures to confirm how far it's true, what dropout rates are across the board or anything. Tickell's rhetoric is the usual "what does the public want", forgetting that some of the public want to go to university.
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I have found this to be amazing, too. It works best when you are really on top of what you want to write and can articulate it fluently and correctly.
It works less well when you are thinking something through and need to pause between words to consider the argument. Typing slows you down for this.
Anyway, this is hardly the main cause of this war. But it’s an interesting psychological observation for me. Having a huge military is like a loaded gun on the desk in act one. In act two, it must go off.
Instead, they seem to think those feelings should be followed — that power through weapons is what makes them “strong” or “great”.
Only Trump and his administration do not think the sensations I’ve described are dangerous things to resist.
And I fear there is something similar about the US military (and other militaries).
I can see how even just having the weapon transforms people — especially those without impulse control — into killing machines.
So I swore I would never hold a gun again.
I realised that I hated this feeling. It felt like a dangerous rush of violent power to my head. I hated what it made me into and how it transformed my sense of self.
I had the same sensation holding my friend’s air rifle and air pistol. And also with my own BB gun that fired ball bearings.
It made me feel totally and absolutely powerful.
I felt a surge of power and temptation. I felt empowered because I had a device that would give me forceful superiority over others.
But it also taught me something about myself.
I did not like how I felt holding a gun.
All of this is extraordinary in the first place. And, I think, horrific to teach to children in a school.
We were also trained in outdoor survival, camouflage, escape and evasion, and many other things armies do.
Obviously we used blank ammunition. But I did learn how to load and fire an SA80 rifle, and how to operate the Light Support Weapon (a mounted machine gun).
A threaded observation on holding guns and/or having an enormous military at your disposal.
At my school, from age 16–18, I had to do a thing called CCF: the Combined Cadet Force. It was blatant military propaganda. We were trained in military practices with guns. Real guns. Astonishing in the UK.
Certainly, the concepts of international law and "legality" are dubious and constructions of the very regimes now violating these norms. That is: international law, the UN and all are might-is-right constructions with US centrality (veto etc). I'm sure there's a whole scholarly literature on this.
Were I well enough, I would be heading to London, wheelchair charged, to attend protests against the illegal, murderous, imperialist attacks on Iran.
Sadly, I am not. I am far too weak, the infection risk is too high, and my bowel problems are severe.
But I feel I must at least speak out on this.
Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels. As two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month, John Self reassesses her writing
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Peter E. Gordon, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver - @yalepress.bsky.social, April 2026
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Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
Yeah, Labour's not gonna do that.
Better vote green if you want to see an end to to it.
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this is explicitly genocidal
ICYMI: Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites
New NY Times ’visual investigation’ strongly suggests that the US fired the missile that hit the Minab school Saturday. (Though is very careful with its language to not say it conclusively.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
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