Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Labour on the side of Genocide...
#PalestineAction #DefendOurJuries #FreeSpeech #Terrorism #UKPol #UKPolitics #UKLaw #Genocide #Gaza
JdeBPNo. The #UKLaw here is a Christian one; and Christianity bases things off 14 #Nisan.
I'm glossing over a lot because of post limitations, but there was a lot of variance over exactly how much to use of the Hebrew reckoning, as well as the Council of Nicaea.
There's also the difficulty that comes from the NT account in John having the Last Supper occurring on 14 Nisan, but that also definitely being Jesus celebrating #Pascha according to the other gospels.
Indeed, there was a whole 'Quartodeciman' thing in the early Christian church based upon people equating #Easter with (Christian) #Passover itself rather than the Sunday after it. The name 'Quartodeciman' comes from the Latin for 14th.
Basically, Christianity and Judaism do not exactly line up, when it comes to these, and have not for a long time. And Christianity has even had to theorize a pre-exilic Hebrew calendar that ran 1 day ahead to reconcile its gospels and the whole 'three days' thing.
If you go and read the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, you'll find that there the "moon" is not an astronomical one. As mentioned, the Hebrew calendar began using lookup tables about 16 centuries ago. It had all been tables for centuries by 1750.
The 1750 Act laid out tables for calculating, using a system of 'Dominical letters' and 'Golden numbers', the date of Easter.
Basically, there's a notional 'full moon' here that is calculated, not observed by looking at Luna. Hence how the drafters of the Act were able to construct tables that went up to the year 2199.
The 1750 #UKLaw rule for calculating the date of #Easter breaks down quite simply.
The New Testament account is that Jesus rose from the dead on the day after the Sabbath, i.e. the Sunday (the Sabbath being Saturday), that followed Passover.
So what's the date of #Passover? It's the fourteenth day of Nisan, which is the first (ecclesiastical) month of the Hebrew luni-solar calendar.
Hebrew calendar months (nominally) begin at the new moon, so the 14th day is (approximately) the time of the full moon.
So when does #Nisan start? It has all been done with tables for about 16 centuries, but the underlying aim was to tie it to the vernal equinox.
Hence expressing all of this with the religions taken out: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
And because the Gregorian Calendar aimed to stabilize the dates of the equinoxes, taking even some of the #astronomy out of the rule gets this last part turned into "after the 21st of March".
Interestingly, that is, however, a valid description of what the Calendar (New Style) Act of 1750 did for calculating the date of #Easter, where the British government specified the lookup tables that are used in England and "any other of the dominions or countries subject or belonging to the crown of Great Britain".
Even more interesting is the 1999 attempt to bring the 1928 Act into force, failing in the face of the argument that it solves a non-problem, those same tables from 1750 providing commercial predictability (the major argument for change) until the year 2199.
RevK 
#latepayment #payontime #paylate #penalties #uklaw
Put this together this morning.
https://www.revk.uk/2026/03/late-payments.html
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Mary-Ann Russon 
I've just finished reading the UK Government's new report today on the use of copyright works in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, produced by the Dept for Science, Innovation and Technology, the Dept for Culture, Media and Sport & the Intellectual Property Office UK.
Here are the key respondent views + conclusions from the government - I'm available for on-air commentary as needed:
📌Gov UK most concerned about AI creating "digital replicas" of someone’s voice or face - but bizarrely not bothered about copyrighted texts, images, software etc being used in AI model training datasets (the report calls it "input transparency")
📌There is currently no mandate for AI developers to disclose publicly what IP they are using in their datasets, only which web crawlers they use to crawl the internet. But not what data they crawl or what it is used for
📌Creative industries strongly support the introduction of mandatory standards on input transparency, while tech firms have complained of the "practical and financial burdens of disclosure", particularly affecting small AI startups
📌AI developers & tech firms want exceptions to copyright for AI innovation. Creative industries have rejected the option to opt out of this
📌Gov UK to work on best practices around labelling the content outputted by AI models as AI-generated, but they want to see what other nations do first
📌However, Govt UK said this despite including in this report the new legislation from California, China and South Korea that already requires AI content to be labelled as such on release
📌Gov UK won't "intervene" in the copyright licensing market right now, because "many stakeholders" didn't want it (who tho? 👀)
📌Gov UK to "consider" further work on barriers to enforcing IP rights
Dunno, feels like the House of Lords is right. The UK Govt is still hedging against tightening legislation, in favour of the tech giants.
But what happens when the AI models ingest everything related to all white collar jobs that require a computer? What will we do then?
#AI #copyrightlaw #UKlaw #generativeAI #technology #technews
Jennifer Moore 😷“It’s about legalising and regulating. If someone has a problematic relationship to drugs then surely the answer is to make sure they’re seen by a medical professional who can help them”
Pleased to see this. Portugal has already shown that a public health approach works much better.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/zack-polanski-green-party-legalise-drugs-alcohol
From Fiona at Granite and Sunlight - someone I have a lot of respect for:
"I used to be on the other side of this. I know what’s at stake and why people want it. But I have experiences, both my own and those of disabled people I’ve worked with, loved or supported, which most people don’t. I know the systems we’re all relying on to ‘safeguard’ vulnerable people. I know them intimately. I know they cannot.
"... the real coercion we’re talking about is society-wide and can’t be easily accounted for in vetting. As care and funds and access to treatment are cut, the fallout doesn’t just affect us. We watch our loved ones give up careers to provide care, watch our lives shrink as the cost of disability takes more and more from our families, see the weight of worry and work. ...
"I wish we lived in a society where we could do this knowing people had received the support and treatment they needed so the choice would only be made when necessary.
"Instead we live in this one, where access to the basics of housing, food and treatment are increasingly precarious and a constant battle with the same systems people are entrusting this Bill’s safeguarding to.
"It isn’t safe."
"Why I Oppose The Assisted Dying Bill"
https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/why-i-oppose-the-assisted-dying-bill/
