I’m telling you this as someone that works in the arts, that’s just not true.

You can pirate digital material and repackage it. I see illustrators getting their designs ripped off by large scale clothing manufacturers all the time.

Similarly, I know some acts that have heard their music on adverts and films and haven’t been paid. It seems like it is being stolen if you ask me.

There needs to be protection or the creation of art becomes a luxury for those that can afford to not make money from it.

I see you make art. What if I said to you, I’d like to give you some money for that art, for maybe a print of it. Not just so that I can own some but because I want to support you.

And then someone just copies your art and gives it to me free. You get no money for it.

Are you genuinely OK with that? Are you saying that everything you make is copyright free?

As someone who makes minimum wage from my intellectual property, the IP laws (in the UK) have allowed me to prevent the very wealthy just taking my ideas and profiting from them.

And they have tried repeatedly.

It isn’t the law, but the corruption of the law that’s at issue. However, without that legal framework there would be no financial incentive for anyone but the wealthy to make IP.

Is that what you want? Entertainment by big corporations only, and art made solely by the upper middle classes?

“The jar was accidentally damaged by a young child visiting the museum, and the response will be accordingly.”

Well, that’s their nearest hospital getting bombed then.

“What’s you’re biggest weakness?”

“I’m going to say my honesty”

“Not sure I think honesty is really a weakness…”

“I don’t give fuck what you think.”.

Yeah, and fractions of that stone? Pounds.

So like 10 stone 5 pounds.

Or, conversely, just switch to Linux.

Take an hour or so to have a look around the place.

Go on the internet if you have any questions.

People are smarter than you assume and if you want Linux to grow in popularity we need to stop pretending any if this is difficult.

I think some folk want to pretend using Linux is hard so that they can feel more… Uh… Technical for using it.

You know we use pounds as a weight measurement too, right?

Some countries use imperial measurements, others metric, but the UK enjoys both.

Oh come on mate, I left an open goal for you there.

You could have scored an easy one by saying that their understanding of economic factors in the new media landscape is a relatively new field for study.

You could have talked about the aspects of social discourse and relationships between the maker and the viewer.

Fuck, you could have even framed what they do as artistic expression

But nope, you are too tied up in the misplaced metric of financial success.

And here’s why lectures about that would be next to useless… Their experiences are not transferable. You can’t copy what they do and expect success. That’s because novelty is a factor and you cannot teach that.

Compare that to the scientific method where everything relies on being exactly able to reproduce results.

Sure, there are plenty of purposes for academia, but what you suggest really isn’t one of them.

And their net contribution to human knowledge is…?

That’s not cheese, that’s yellow shrink wrap

Hi, I’m Issac Newton, you might remember me from… The motions.

Petition to edit all textbooks, renaming Newton as THE Motion Guy.

Yeah, no.

Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.

Newton’s conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.

There’s even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newton

If you are into learning about him there’s also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.

Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.

…we didn’t start the fire…

Looks to me as if all the ghosts have been busted.

The European tally line diagonal from top left to bottom right feels wrong.

I usually see it the other way.

Sure you are not confusing this:

Emily Hewertson, a House of Commons press officer, was accused on social media of being the one who threw the milkshake at Farage and has been forced to deny it.

The staffer was contacted by a journalist at the Daily Mail, who asked her to confirm or deny it was her. She posted the message on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption: “No, I did not throw a milkshake over Nigel Farage.”

Well, yeah, but we are going to need a couple of monocles.