I've never read Sally Rooney (quelle surprise I know) but I feel like that this description would exclude so many novels and poetry that counts as literature.

Like "survival of passage through time + quality" = literature.

Modern Marxism: Marx uncovered the cold laws of political economy in Marx. Passionless and merciless he lay out our predeterminist future.

Actual Marx: Society is made by humans and can be changed by humans. This terrible current thing was less bad in the past & can be in the future if we only act!

It doesn't require a 140GB update every two weeks so it's automatically classed as retro tech I'm afraid!

Crucially in the film the Catholic hierarchy are actively against the grift of Wicks, as they are in real life against Christian Nationalism, something we don't really see any of the other growing denominations willing to do.

See also student politics - where the less power the student body has, the more viscious the debates often become.

At the Terry Pratchett play last night I said something similar, perhaps rather too loudly, only for an old guy to come up and go "son I used to think that too, but then I say us lose 4 - 1 to Brazil in 1982."

I guess using Co-Pilot to go "we're making big losses due to X, we think there's these factors because of Y, and here is a bunch of sales data that we think might be just noise" would be a) not great advert material and b) shows a use for AI that doesn't replace the worker.

Here's how Scotland can still win against the Eleven Basically Unstoppable Cylons...

H.V. Morton does make quite a lot of the sheer horror of the Glasgow slums continuing a trend where basically every book I've ever read contemporary to 1930s has felt the need to comment on the poverty and inequality of the city.

What's the frozen mini-croissant things as they look like they should be in a bad hotel's continental breakfast?

***Images of workmen quickly moving the same tree from one line to the other line***