Tom Butcher

Founder in waiting

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@kafkaswife @AllisonPearson Curious do you see anything wrong with social media?

I like you can never love anything the government is doing to curtail our usage because it’s great.

But I also have a sense social media in its current form is making society worse.

Do you get that sense?

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@arjunkhemani Is social media the same today as it was back then?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

This is the strategic position the UK needs to occupy.

Local is best. We can generate the capability on all fronts

[Arjun @neuralunlock]

The biggest irony is that by banning Fable / Mythos, the US govt has caused everyone to root for open source, and China is a leader in open source AI.

The most dangerous model will soon be widely distributed, just not by a US company.

Giant victory for China, massive setback for the users.

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@Dom_Hallas Love your work fyi so friend not foe but I’m not sure this says a lot.

Fine we’re not moving fast enough, are under resourced and yet are well placed to change course.

What does this look like? What’s the strategy?

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

“Virtually ZERO sovereign AI capability”?

UK is No.3 on the planet according to Top Ranked AI Nations (TRAIN) Index.

And tell that to Isambard-AI, the 11th most powerful supercomputer on earth, funded by the last Conservative government and unveiled at the Bletchley summit we convened to put Britain at the front of global AI.

Britain is building its own frontier model right now, backed by a £500m fund.

As ever from Reform: capital letters, no plan. Why are you always talking Britain down?

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

Vapid.

As a nation we have the opportunity to use local and lesser frontier models.

We’re not seizing that opportunity.

Fable being restricted is bad but also rational from the USA.

We’re not a superpower so we have to think differently.

We must get better at applied AI.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

I cannot express how extremely severe for the UK this is. Even more severe for the EU.

AI is the most powerful tool humans have ever created. Because European governments have regulated us all to death, we are now heading to a doom loop.

That means businesses left behind unable to compete, always losing out. It’s means Governments at the mercy of superpowers.

You can once again thank our utterly useless leaders for this. Their shortsightedness and hunger for power means we will all be vastly poorer in so many ways.

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

He’s running!

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@HedgieMarkets Chicken farmers need to rebrand their battery farms

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

Arsenal going on an unbeaten run may be the only thing that gets the UK out of a doom loop.

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

I am just back from the Oval and I regret to inform you that London has in fact fallen.

More Arsenal shirts than Surrey shirts. Forget about Palace or Charlton.

Arsenal fans everywhere in South London. Yesterday I was in East London at my parents - their local pub had more Arsenal fans in it than West Ham fans for the Conference League 3 years ago. Lots more. Not even close.

The "London FC" people are right. I don't like it, but they're right. And given the way that London tends to eat the world, don't get smug if you're outside of London. If we have half a decade of Arsenal dominance, by the end of it they'll have taken over Liverpool and Manchester too and the economy will be one giant Arsenal merch store with a few farms and data centres tacked on.

Foreign leaders will grant profitable trade and visa deals in return for being allowed exclusive pre-access to the new Declan Rice hologram experience in the Emirates Museum.

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@afcstuff @JamieWigram

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@procurementfile @jaychitnis1996 more to back up the claim

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@jaychitnis1996 @GBPolitcs Upvote

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@DanielJHannan This is actually how businesses set up for a round of redundancies.

The work moves to the new unit, whilst the old operation gets culled.

It's a good move that's already moving

https://t.co/hmU3URAvSR

[Ebere @EbereEze10]

I swear imma make It and when I do, they're gunna show this tweet lol

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

@carrawu @p0 Hey Cara,

I love the vision and the business. Would love to speak about joining you guys.

I’m 0-1 GTM and Company building generalist that’s based in the UK.

Would love to work on this!

[Tom Butcher @Tom_GButcher]

The point is we expect more of brands like Spotify.

They’re the cultural centre of our world.

This feels like a gimmick not a celebration.

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

I genuinely don’t understand the outrage over Spotify’s temporary app icon. A 20-year anniversary is exactly when a company should be allowed to do something playful and different. The default will be back soon.

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

I genuinely don’t understand the outrage over Spotify’s temporary app icon. A 20-year anniversary is exactly when a company should be allowed to do something playful and different. The default will be back soon.