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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

For context - I’ve followed her Long Covid journey (having been seriously affected myself for years), and she has time and again claimed to be cured by something new and mystical, generating a tonne of false hope given her large following. Not someone to be taken seriously

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Anyone who’s followed her over a longer period knows that anything she says must be taken with an incredibly large pinch of salt.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

When you listen to a violin concerto written post-1945 by anyone other than Shostakovich after hearing musicologists bang on about the need to deconstruct the canon...

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On the right, you can get away with murder. On the left - you can’t get away with anything

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you're the really quite online leader of a major left wing party, you better have the discipline of a Mamdani. Or else the media, which is desperate for your downfall, will have a field day. A major danger for Polanski. You get little by retweeting randos but risk a great deal.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It also creates a world in which there are clearly demarcated villains partly responsible for the spread of AI. And clearly human agency is at play and there are villains. However by far the most powerful forces are structural. The mode of production is changing, a force far greater than any man 2/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When you see phrases like ‘AI boosters’ or ‘stop normalising AI’ all while graphs like the below exist, you’re a witness to how people respond in the face of incredibly rapid, impersonal economic and technological change. Those phrases put AI adoption back in the realm of human agency. 1/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

At least the Dems have learned one key lesson from the ridiculous spectacle of a decrepit Biden

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

How does Hannah Spencer come across so much more human than the entirety of the remarkably cold blooded 2024 Labour intake? McSweeney has a great deal to answer for

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is also completely true haha. Whatever people say about New Labour, and there’s a lot you can say, Blair et al were really good at politics, the opposite of this bunch

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Which was no secret. The political classes were fine that he spent years lying as Labour leader - so long as that lying was in service of brutalising the Labour Left. It was celebrated as ‘ruthlessness.’ But now that it’s in service of desperately clinging to power? He’s fucked. 2/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

There are many reasons Starmer is profoundly unsuited to being PM. But perhaps foremost among them is his dishonesty. The chief case for Starmer was that, despite his blandness, he represented the opposite of Boris and the rot of the Tories. But his integrity was always a facade. 1/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s looking more and more like there’s actually been underinvestment in AI infrastructure, particularly from Anthropic

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m sure the replies to this will be incredibly normal…

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This man just shouldn’t be PM

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

When our root malaise is economic, you can’t get away with the economic knowledge and outlook of the average Twitter lefty liberal. Corbyn’s vision was far more coherent - at a time of low interest rates, large investment in infrastructure and services. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead

Leader uses first major economic speech to prioritise public services and reduction of inequality over growth

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Are we really framing a *Korean* film as a victory of representation when basically no country globally punches above its weight more when it comes to culture than Korea?

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Anthony Princiotti @tonyprinciotti.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Biographies of Beethoven often note that he sometimes "engaged in sharp business practices." Translation: he wasn't averse to ripping people off. Take that most spiritual of his works, his "Missa Solemnis"; "exclusive" rights to the piece were sold to no fewer than 5 publishers.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Very good moment to be a superpower that has established a lead across a whole host of renewable technologies…

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

He’s basically right, and it’s true of classical music too. At the heart of the classical tradition was a long line of extraordinary composers that ended with Shostakovich, and will never again be reborn. The historical energy is no longer w classical music. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to film.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Mamdani continually playing Trump in order to get things done rather than screaming about how he’s a fascist - he’s all I’ve wanted in a left wing politician for a decade.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Kore-eda with more films in the letterboxd 500 than Nolan is a victory for humanity

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Ppl who keep track of what’s cancelled the same way football fans follow the transfer window…

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

That’s all Starmer’s Labour was ever truly based on. Plus, of course, a remarkably hated Tory Party. Unless these foundational issues are remedied, and we get a Labour leader with a personality and an interesting vision, it’s Reform come the next election. 2/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This gets to the root malaise of the Starmer government. You can’t govern, least of all in these times, if your foundation is basically factional - if your ascent to power was built not on ideas, or even personality, but instead an incredibly effective purge of the left within the Labour Party. 1/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Corbyn is currently up in his allotment with the biggest grin on his face

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The money isn’t really in individual users/chatbots anymore - it’s in the API/corporate use, and that’s also where there’s greatest technological uncertainty. Returning to the initial point, technological advances substantially change the API/corporate side of things.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

then the valuations that are at the core of the ‘bubble’ then look rather more justified. If with each successive new model, returns don’t increase sufficiently rapidly, and eg openAI defaults on one of its many v large circular loans, we’re all fucked.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

IMO wastage of investment is much less important re the bubble than the returns on investment. If with each successive wave of investment - not just in infrastructure but also pretraining - we see v rapidly rising returns such that the large companies get ever closer to breaking even…

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Oh defo, I just think with AI the extent to which there’s been overbuilding is unclear because it’s unclear exactly how useful the technology will be economically in 6, 12 months. So the bubble isn’t something that’s fixed, it’s something that exists in dialogue w this constantly changing technology

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Think powerful economic use cases are v tied to whether it’s a bubble - if AI automates a large swathe of coding, the investment in AI infrastructure is much more likely to pay off. And that’s before getting to other use cases that will grow as AI’s jagged frontier expands

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And it’s incredibly difficult to predict what precisely AI’s jagged frontier will look like in 6 months, let alone a year. 3 months ago, all I heard was talk of stagnation. We inhabit a profoundly unstable technological conjuncture, and that’s something to be embraced.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is a key reason why I don’t trust anyone who confidently asserts AI is a bubble or not - so much depends on how rapidly the technology advances. Quick progress in economically useful areas like coding could substantially alter the financial equation.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If you’re gonna recommend a first foreign film to someone, it’s gotta be The 400 Blows - immediately disabuses anyone of the notion that B&W French films must be cold, inaccessible and pretentious. It’s somehow fresher, funnier, and more devastating than any 21st century movie I’ve seen.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Seeing ppl debate whether Sinners or One Battle After Another will be discussed in decades… the clear answer is neither. 2025 was not a good year for film - at least in America. I’m waiting on the foreign releases

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Should be of significant interest to the left, the latter less so though perhaps more now in the era of AI. The former represent imo a key node in the argument over the abundance agenda.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So I would personally propose that... - Huge state backed infrastructure development - Huge partly state fueled housing boom - Significantly state-backed investment in renewable technologies and key industries - Large state sector partly to ensure large-scale employment...

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

No new American frontier AI labs have emerged this year, so cue Moonshot AI. And apparently there are several other Chinese labs in the mix beyond Alibaba and DeepSeek. China’s unique blend of innovation - produce things to roughly the same quality as the West at a fraction of the cost

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There is of course one great exception to this: China.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

And how could he? The left has long lost any serious tradition of thinking about governance and economics. Gone are the Marxist and Kenyesian traditions, replaced by a never-ending focus on identity. As I argued from 2016, the left is only as good as its ideas, and it is now largely without them 2/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Zach Polanski is clearly far more skilled than the Your Party lot at articulating the defining problems of modern Britain. But I’m deeply unconvinced that he has any of the real solutions. 1/2

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This election is the one time I’ve appreciated the American penchant for endless democracy. Give me another 100 days. I need more Curtis Sliwa. Far more. Even more of Cuomo’s public humiliation kink. And above all more and more and more Zohran.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I absolutely hate that this illness has made me semi chronically online as I have so few other distractions. It’s one of the most off-putting things someone can be. I miss when it felt like I existed as much in the 19th century as our own, in the books I read, the music I played and listened to.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It’s such a shame that none of the great British Marxist historians remain. Perhaps no one would be better suited to probe the rise of AI than a school of historians deeply interested in changing modes of production.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

AI is a tabula rasa onto which people can project their views. Like the rise of the internet, AI is so far-reaching that anyone can find a whole range of data points to support their worldview. As a result there is a lot of noise, far less understanding.

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

If China is a ‘national security threat’ to the UK, then what on earth is Trump’s America?

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The one thing I like about AI investment vs the internet - a v large proportion is being spent actually building things. Makes me a little more sanguine about whether we’re in a bubble (which we probably are).

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Ravi Veriah Jacques @ravihvj.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

That graph is purely weekly active users of ChatGPT - which people have to choose to use.

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