#houseoflords — Public Fediverse posts
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'House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy'
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'House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy'
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'House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy'
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'House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy'
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#Starmer's ''reforms' have taken the UK's #HouseOfLords from 85% appointed cronies to 96% appointed #cronies. He ejected the 92 #HereditaryPeers, but kept the 26 bishops and about 700 cronies.
It's over a century since the Parliament Act 1911 promised the UK an elected upper house, but not "immediately". The number of elected members remains 0%. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.
96% appointed cronies. And they call it "democracy".
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#Starmer has just made the #HouseOfLords even worse.
In 1958, the Lords was a set of #HereditaryPeers & bishops. On Tuesday, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill passed, making the Lords a bunch only of #LifePeers & bishops. 68 years from a club of #inbreds to a club of #cronies & donors.
The #ParliamentAct1911 promised an elected upper house, but it never arrived. 115 years later, the so-called "#LabourParty" leaves bishops as the only independent Lords. This is not #democracy.
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A lawsuit against OpenAI has mainstream media finally asking if copyright is fit for the digital world
Last year saw great excitement over a new wave of AI services based on large language models (LLMs). That enthusiasm was somewhat overshadowed by a subsequent wave of lawsuits claiming that the LLMs were guilty of copyright infringement because of the training materials they used. Just before the start of 2024, a new lawsuit was filed, this time by The New York Times […]
#andreessenHorowitz #chatgpt #houseOfLords #llms #microsoft #MikeMasnick #newYorkTimes #openai #scotus
https://walledculture.org/a-lawsuit-against-openai-has-mainstream-media-finally-asking-if-copyright-is-fit-for-the-digital-world/
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UK Survey - House of Lords
Share your thoughts on how you feel about the unelected House of Lords.
This is a quick, multi choice survey. Less they 30 seconds to complete.
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/139578/-/1
#UnitedKingdom #UK #corruption #dystopia #Lords #HouseOfLords #democracy #DemocracyLost #ToryDictatorship #ToryScum #ToryFascists
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Former PM David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary has triggered fresh calls to abolish the House of Lords
There is no requirement for cabinet ministers to be a MP
It is rare senior offices of state are held by unelected politicians
#Lobbyist Cameron has been handed a seat in the Lords for life to take up the role
This joins a string of outrages about the urgent need to ditch the Lords
#UK #dictatorship #ToryDictatorship #democracy #PR #Lords #HouseOfLords