The fact that the (Scottish/UK) media is currently full of people criticising the Scottish govt & parliament for making it illegal to organise a pogrom from the comfort of your own home, and not a peep about how the vast majority of people in Scotland have been priced out of being able to enforce their legal rights in the civil courts, tells you everything you need to know about who is driving the agenda.
(The SFP are so right-wing they left UKIP because they weren't fashy enough. A bunch of misogynistic patriarchal christian dominionists who poll around 0.1% in elections—I have no idea what evil billionaire's wallet their money pipeline is hooked up to.)
It's interesting how "Willy's Chocolate Experience" went out of it's way to avoid using the word "Wonka", but it's now being reported worldwide as a "Willy Wonka" event. Presumably because of the "AI" pictures, which seem to draw heavily on the imagery of the Willy Wonka movies.
Could that incentivise the big money media industry to start going against the "AI" industry on IP grounds?
@teknomagic@cstross On one hand they want to profit from it (replace scriptwriters, actors, etc with computer generated material that they 100% own); on the other, they don't want anyone else to make money from their IP (unless they get a cut).
Fan art they tolerate until it becomes too popular & they feel they're missing out on a potential market (eg Paramount v Anaxar). They 100% will want to capture "AI" product generation exclusively for themselves; question is how.
@HighlandLawyer@teknomagic The happy fun thing is that right now, AI "art" simply isn't up to doing what they want. GPT creates art-shaped objects, not actual art: there's no "there" there. See that leaked script for the Wonka thing, or those videos from OpenAI's video generator that look amazing until it shows a glass of wine spilling and you realize it has no physics model and no boundary checking (the liquid spills out through the unbroken side of the wine glass.)
The best time for the UK to have become a federal state would have been 1707. The next best time would have been 1800. The next best the 1840s then the 1890s, then 1910s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, or 1990s. Yet every time it was raised it never got any traction.
So tell me again exactly why independence of the constituent nations isn't a good solution & should be opposed because a federal UK would be better option & solve all the significant democratic & constitutional problems.
Does anyone know if there is a financial benefit to (Scottish) local authorities in refusing Small Business Bonus Scheme applications?
Specific case: property under renovation, council refuses SBBS because property "unoccupied"; subsequent years, used as workshop as well as being renovated, refused as "unoccupied, only use as X would be occupation", appealed; following year property opens as X, SBBS refused, no reason given except "we will not discuss this, include it in the existing appeals"