Violi Sahaj

Former academic researcher; now in business analysis; occasionally comment on current affairs; own views. I may RT & like views I do not share. #CFC

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I donated to 'Help with Lacey's liver surgery' . Please can you help by doing the same - https://t.co/kxevhWdzHC via @gofundme

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@SolBrah @Julia___Valerie We call that denial, in certain circumstances.

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@iainmartin1 @BrexitStewart If this is the case and our living standards have declined, it’s pertinent and fair to ask where the money went.

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@PolitlcsUK Is he actually playing music next to a soldier? 🙈

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@serenelyjoyful That’s why it’s crucial to see policy not as a remedial or corrective activity, but as a generative activity. You will get more of what you correct, because human nature gravitates to incentives.

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@Kristof_Poland Not sure about the mind and the French — existentialism and phenomenalism always struck me as a bit weird, to put it mildly.

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@OliLondonTV We’ve got to talk about what’s happening to some ‘liberal women’ — it’s a little bit strange: from this contribution to aesthetics, to supporting infanticide. It’s all a bit strange.

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@NeilMcCoyWard @AllisonPearson Next turn on this road is the IMF and some seriously painful remedial measures.

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@afneil Not going to happen Andrew. Once bitten twice shy in reform’s case — but about the rest of the country who voted Tory for over decade, and who were summarily and repeatedly betrayed by the Tories.

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@WeimarClub You’re right in your assessment in so far as we focus on a system of power, but free markets are not systems of power. They make assumptions about power as an instrument of preserving true price discovery by enabling not distorting (manipulating) demand and supply.

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@WeimarClub You’re conflating the free market with capitalism. Capitalism is a system of power which tends towards oligarchy, whereas the free market is an economic system which assumes a form of power that necessarily prevents and treats the oligarchy as corrosive, as ‘monopoly’.

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@RollingHedge We’re only sovereign if and when it suits a political narrative and agenda, otherwise we have (enter scapegoat for doing what’s right but difficult)

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@serenelyjoyful Absolutely, in terms of creativity it is vacuous. It just recombines, it doesn’t create.

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@alanyouwanker @EuRollout 40% is missing a few digits

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@ukhomeoffice Please stop the spin

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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

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@BenGrahamUK @DCBMEP More like in the spring of 2027 than Christmas — winter elections are rare for good reason, especially for incumbents.

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@jonatanpallesen @pietercleppe And you’d have to take into account that a lot of people just don’t bother reporting robbery because they know the police won’t follow up on it, especially when the value of the goods are at a certain level.

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@piersmorgan Should we be comparing all crime types? Why be selective?

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@hewantswealth Scream of disdain for the people who pay a shed load of tax to have him represent us. This is a function of not having earned the position. He’s got no mandate and he feels that — it shows in his behaviour and respect of the role. Just call a GE already