Sign the Petition Urgent: Insist Cumberland Council Fulfill Their Nuclear Democratic Duty

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!

Sign the Petition Urgent: Insist Cumberland Council Fulfill Their Nuclear Democratic Duty

If you live, work, or study in Cumbria, UK, this petition needs your signature! Long story short - Cumberland Council refuses to fully discuss and vote on whether to continue supporting Nuclear Waste Services with its plan to construct an under seabed nuclear waste dump off the West Cumbrian coast.

The Ultimate List of DRM-free Bookshops A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs. Helping hundreds of readers a month discover over 400 DRM-free bookshops.

Someone's been busy today

libreture.com/bookshops/?u...

Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

Going through old articles written 10+ years ago, where I sometimes wrote for 8p per word or less, and AI (and AI-users) can kiss my lily-white because that shit was fun, real, drew on my real life experiences, and carried original turns of phrase that could only have come from me.

Please sign the petition and don’t let democracy be dumped in Cumbria and the beautiful Lake District in order to mine out a massive sub-sea nuclear dump #lakedistrict #marinelife #oceanpollution #heatsink #nuclearwaste #friendsofthelakedistrict #ocean #coastalliving #coast #health #democracy

This is the next little hand made book I wrote & illustrated. It’s for my son, who was fascinated by insects & creeping crawling things. Woodlice have so many different colloquial names that I’m sure I could add many more to it in a finished edition. Sound up full & apologies for whispering

This is why the internet is broken.

I swear if anyone thinks they want to even take part in *this* game, fair dos to them, but its not copywriting. It never was. It was writing shit for pennies.

Put shit in, get shit out. I'm in it for real businesses and real people. Use value, not exchange.

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?

In related news, Interzone Magazine hates the creativity-robbing AI slop *so much* that it (probably) won't publish the work of authors who have allowed their writing to be illustrated by said AI slop.

@interzone.press

BANK HEAD SAY NO TO NUCLEAR DUMP A ‘willing’ community is the cornerstone of government’s drive to find a Geological Disposal Facility aka nuclear dump. Simon Hughes, Nuclear Waste Services Head of Siting, has stated, “The policy surrounding our search for a safe and suitable location for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in the UK is emphatic. It requires the express consent of the people who would be living alongside a GDF, and gives them influence over the pace at which discussions progress.” Residents in the two areas of South Copeland who will be living alongside the focus area, i.e. Kirksanton and Bank Head housing estate, have resoundingly said they are NOT a willing community. In 2023 Whicham Parish Council surveyed their residents and found 76% were opposed to a GDF being sited there. Now, the other area most affected, Bank Head housing estate near HMP Haverigg, have also rejected the idea and are asking Millom Town Council, Cumberland Council and their MP Michelle Scrogham, for help to stop it. After meeting their MP, residents of Bank Head conducted the survey at her suggestion – Millom Town Council have refused to conduct a similar survey, so residents took it into their own hands. With a return rate of 68.3%, 78.7% have said no to a GDF, 11.7% yes and 5.2% don’t know.

Living in so much hope that this locally instigated survey will see the back of the NWS nuclear waste dump at Millom.

#notonuclearwastedump
#notoGDF
#noGDF

#astrology

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?

Four movie covers of: Boys Don't Cry; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Mystic River; Heat.

How are *these* films the ones that Letterboxd algorithms picked as being 'similar to' Thelma and Louise?

Image of a dark haired woman looking up and a blurb of the film All About Nina from Letterboxd.com

A bizarre block of white text on a black background that is supposed to be a review of a film, but is in fact garbage dressed up as word salad.

Say you didn't understand the film without saying you didn't understand the film.

Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything is a great back up for this essay

Buy something, give your data, get marketing, buy more stuff ... lab hamsters!

Close up of bluebells and their greenery

Bluebell woods, south-west Cumbria

I wish you could smell how beautiful they are

Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time Experts say the pigment was worth more than gold and used to dye the clothes of imperial figures.

Roman Imperial dye found at excavation at Calisle cricket club - the latest amazing discovery there. #archaeology #cumbria
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...