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  1. #Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.

    Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

    #whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK

  2. “Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories

  3. “Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories

  4. “Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories

  5. “Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories

  6. “Michael Gove to be awarded peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours.” Lord Coke of Cokeshire. #Gove #HouseOfLords #Tories

  7. 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/

  8. OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material - Enlarge (credit: OpenAI)

    ChatGPT developer OpenAI recently ack... - arstechnica.com/?p=1994591 #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #houseoflords #newyorktimes #ailawsuits #microsoft #aiethics #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz#dall-e #openai #ailaw #ai #uk

  9. 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

    bylinetimes.com/2023/11/13/dav

    #UK #dictatorship #ToryDictatorship #democracy #PR #Lords #HouseOfLords