Richard Tawn

Art & Game Director, Video Games, husband, father, brother, twin, opinions are my own. Restore Britain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

Just finished watching France play Paraguay, a strained match ultimately sealed by a goal from Mbappe. During the match I showed my friends a game I’m super proud of, FIFA Heroes, a love letter to classic arcade action soccer games laced up with real world football legends and classic World Cup Mascots, together realtime multiplayer and gripping short matches - what’s not to love?

https://t.co/MQEo3xqXu7

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@Alexandr4Denman

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

It terrifies me the stupidity of socialism and socialist governments, the idea that a mere desk clerk turned autocrat that wields such power to make nation changing decisions about the economy, that actually thinks they possess any such insight into markets that could remotely compare with voluntary trade, individuals making their own decisions and a free market determining value and setting prices itself with little government intervention. We’re so deep in the woods with this in the UK and the west - socialism is obsessed with ‘solving’ problems with laws, taxes and welfare but sooner or later they run out of other people’s money.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@triffic_stuff_ @JuliaWh73912662 Oh well, if Tony says “net zero makes no logical sense”, now we’ll listen (?🤯) the ignored and silenced majority of the country have been saying this since the start and are told they’re ’climate deniers’ or whatever the new derogatory term is for pointing out facts and logic.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

It’s possible for two things to be true, one that a man is running a business installing renewal energy and two that the same man believes Net Zero is the wrong policy for an entire country’s energy creation. The simple truth is that as a country we’re buying fossil fuel at a premium from other countries that have not dropped fossil fuel when we have plenty of the same fuel all around - we don’t need to be buying fuel from other countries - the proper way to transform a nations energy policy is one step at a time, maintain clean fossil fuel energy, and nuclear and as technology progresses, add in wind, solar or hydro. Our national energy is one of the highest £ in the world, penalising the consumers and strangling businesses with extortionate prices and green taxes.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

We had a great time at the Farm Fest, Stoneleigh Park this weekend, I don’t think there has been a proper show there for a long time. It was also excellent to see @JeremyClarkson who obviously had a huge impact on organising the show chatting with the crowds and raising the bar when it came to the entertainment and activities, this was no sleepy event - there was more than a little Clarkson’s Farm influence. 👏🐄🐖🐐🏇🥓🍎🍦

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

Bureaucratic, unremitting and extortionate, our government set tax rules with little forward thought, compassion or sense of duty to the people and a healthy economy, it’s all ‘wealth extraction’ all of the time.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.

The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.

They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:

Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.

Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.

Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.

The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.

Uber's story is even worse...

Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.

Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.

Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.

The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.

Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:

"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."

This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.

Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.

Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:

AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.

The stock market rewarded every company that said it.

Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.

But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.

Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.

Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.

Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.

And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.

The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.

This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.

$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.

What do you think?

[Basket of Cats @Basket_of_Cats]

@Alexandr4Denman Here is the link: https://t.co/6bELWkKnaS

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

Happy Saint George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐉🤺🐎

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@timothy_gumm @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok Maybe you’re right Timothy. But it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just true fact at this point, our government in the UK last year even simply told us they would dim the sun. At some point you do actually need to listen to what they are saying.

https://t.co/5T1n1cswK2

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

David Keith acknowledges that UK dimming of the Sun will kill tens of thousands of people. This is because ten times more people die of cold than of heat. Cooling kills, that's why they want you to think warming is bad: to depopulate & save on pensions

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@implausibleblog I think the best practice is to tackle the policy over the person. Sweeping judgement is fun for a spell but rings hollow.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@implausibleblog The risk with that joke is that over 50% of Americans voted for Trump, so as soon as you start down that line, half your audience mentally roll their eyes and just think ‘urgh…here we go, tds’.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

I don’t really comprehend the value in naming the generations and the attempt to broadly categorise them, but I guess your point actually does explain it, it’s whether there is any such commonality between generations or what the difference is. I’m right at the end of Gen X ‘79. My wife and I are far more protective over our kids than our parents were, which I grapple with all the time.

Football until you could see the ball, out all day from dawn till dusk, cycling miles away.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

“As children in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, a time of shifting societal values, Gen Xers were sometimes called the "Latchkey Generation",[11] a reference to their returning as children from school to an empty home and using a key to let themselves in. “ - haha this reminded me, my brother and I didn’t have a key, we used a garden cane to poke the key out the inside through the letter box and let ourselves in when Mum wasn’t home after school. It took a good deal of careful ‘flicking, and balancing’ - Come to think of that we did it for ages and used to find it hilarious whilst she puzzled over how we’d actually got in the house.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

I think we’re also going to need something similar to the ‘Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970’ in the US- this was used to break up the mafia families and organised crime. Every town in this country is now riddled with obvious crime fronts covering for illegal rackets. Everyone I know talks about it, we all know which shops we have dozens of in our towns that make no sense.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@Gunblaze1969 Wow, amazing.

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

That’s quite something. Just over 185k votes.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Reform UK Grassroots did their own poll on who will be the next Prime Minister

371,457 people voted

Rupert Lowe still won

[Richard Tawn @aerotawn]

@perseverare1776 I finished SMB - does that mean I did this level? Or was this a bonus level? I can’t believe it. Crazy difficult.