I wouldn't like to be *those* councillors come election time.

The petition link again: www.change.org/cumbrianucle...

The entire process decided by international consensus, hinges on a 'willing host community'.

Despite residents rejecting the plans, because Cumberland Council insists on continuing to take part, the 'host communities' are unable to withdraw.

The Council is forcing them to continue the process.

Meanwhile, the council, its leader, and those people committed to the special 'partnership' groups, insist that if people only know more and understand more, they will be able to make an 'informed decision'.

It doesn't come much more informed than workers for the nuclear industry ...

Local residents in all the 'areas of focus' have already conducted their own surveys and established that none of them want the nuclear dump located near them.

Even those who work for the nuclear industry, which is a little telling!

It's a tough, competitive world out there for authors. Would be good to drive AI out of it.

Scabbing with real live people is one thing. But scabbing with something that has a limited ability to 'create' and which will in the end eat itself from the tail upwards is quite another when your entire business is based on creative output.

Would the magazines just go full AI?

And how long would *that* go well for them 🤔

I suppose it would be too much to expect authors to stand firm against AI-generating magazines and refuse to publish with them.

What would the end result be?

Thelma & Louise is a powerful film, against a backdrop of vast American country and wide open spaces. A story of freedom and escape, and apparently a film that even an algorithm can't find a true similarity to.

The men that obviously couldn't be trusted (husband Darrell, Harlon, and JD) and the men that masqueraded as trustworthy (Jimmy, Hal). Or maybe they were just weak.

The little things matter. The girlie mag read by a member of the phone tapping team. The idea that 'women love that shit' - a man being nice to her. When Darrell just says hello to Thelma, she knows straight away that the police are there, cos he's never nice. You can really see what women are for.

A rewatch of Thelma & Louise after 20+ years revealed a film that, despite obvious markers of being directed by a man, deals with plain-sight injustices faced by women every day.

1. Boys Don't Cry. Probably the closest true similarity ...
2. Three Billboards. Background, a woman raped and murdered horrifically.
3. Mystic River. All about men.
4. Heat. More men. But it's got Harvey Keitel in it, so that's okay?