Adwait Savarkar

I am what I am!

[Adwait Savarkar @adwaitsav]

@waglenikhil So called liberals are against individual opinions! 😈

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Anthropic are literally effectively burning books and want to be the exclusive source of truth in the future.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔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🤗

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

“My Nicobar has trees. Don’t built a port, it will cause summer to be hotter”

[Krish @Krish_nvm_Raw]

I'm from gen z and many people don't know in which condition manmohan singh left india to modi :

Toilet access less then 33%
Tap water access less then 10%
Electricity access less then 55%
37% people in poverty
Monthly terrorist attack
Gdp per capita same as pakistan

[Indian Aesthetics @IndianAesthetik]

was india deliberately kept poor by the world?

[Sundara Rajan @sundarmail]

L&T not allowed to run Engineering College for decades.

Apollo hospital group not allowed to run Medical cillege for decades.
So we're many industries.

This Babu/Netagiri and Education mafia influence for you.

This must be allowed immediately...
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

When Sibal was Union HRD minister how many paper leak incidents happened?

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

HIGH POWERED TASK FORCE on examination reforms under the leadership of Shri Nandan Nilekani constituted.

@NandanNilekani

[Adwait Savarkar @adwaitsav]

@anupamachopra

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

They have always been stupid, everywhere...

[Adwait Savarkar @adwaitsav]

@MonsterShree Aniruddha Bapu, famous in Mumbai / Kokan. Has few branches in Pune too.

[Aditya Jakki @adityajakki]

All this "anarchists have tasted blood, they won't stop anymore" is all nonsense take

Every few years, once in a while, ruling party should take L if it is the dominant party ruling at both the centre and 70% of the states

This is how you release the pressure

I would any day let pressure valve release this way than lossing Bengal or UP or any important greenfield state

Now I hope people stopping talking about losing any state elections

[Akash Sampurnanand Pandey @late_bloomer_7]

Imagine you get All India Rank 1 in the IIT-JEE.

Then you do something even crazier - You turn down Computer Science. Instead, you pick a five-year MSc in Physics at @IITKanpur

That was Rajesh Gopakumar, AIR 1 in JEE 1987.

He went to @Princeton for his PhD, under a man who'd later win the Nobel. He co-created what physicists now call the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, a piece of math sitting inside string theory.

In 2001, he came home to build a theoretical physics institute in Bengaluru, which he runs today.

Man truly lives on his own terms

[WarMonitor @WarMonitorINTL]

Police identify 2,500 people with criminal records at the Jantar Mantar protest using facial recognition.

[TOI]

[Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur]

A Swiggy delivery partner from Faridabad has become a crorepati after he started writing for Pocket FM.

Ajit Kumar had to abandon his medical studies because of lack of funds when the lockdown disrupted his family’s livelihood. He began delivering food on his bicycle, working 16-hour days and cycling nearly 100 kilometers on some days to complete 20 orders.

Then, tragedy struck: An accident left him with multiple fractures and he was confined to bed. The clock was ticking - loans (taken for his sister’s wedding) were due for repayment.

He lay in bed depressed while searching for WFH jobs. He came across a writer position advertisement for Pocket FM.

He was determined: On some days, he wrote 4 or 5 episodes from his bed.

[Pubity @pubity]

Over 125,000,000 Indian rural households have gained tap water since 2019, increasing access from 16.7% to 81.7% of homes.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

These people just need an excuse to steal credit

Jantar Mantar was made by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II

Both the land and money belonged to Jai Singh II

[Nikhil Mehra @TweetinderKaul]

Your Prime Minister was exactly this for decades. But his story can never be properly told because that would otherwise glorify him as the greatest rise through life by an Indian in the history of at least independent India.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.