Alan Charlesworth 🇬🇧

Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

OpenAI is an actual cash furnace. Just setting money on fire. 🔥💵🔥 The company is expected to burn through $68M per day in 2026. That figure rises to a staggering -$156M per day in 2027. Then -$200M per day by 2028. This sets up for a cash burn of $665B by 2030. No wonder they're pivoting to rent compute rather than building data centers. Who would want to invest in this? What is the path to profitability? Where do investors ultimately draw the line if RoI is elusive?

People think I’m being alarmist when I say they are trying to make you dumb. They feel entitled to control how and to what extent you can access knowledge. They send their kids to tech-free schools while ensuring public school kids can’t read. They want you illiterate.

If we don't educate children in history, culture, languages, religion, traditions, ethics and critical thinking preferring instead to limit them to STEM subjects, then we are raising a generation of easy to manipulate morons. This is becoming ever more obvious today.

🦔 Grammarly is pulling down its Expert Review feature after backlash from writers, journalists, and academics. The tool claimed to offer writing advice inspired by real experts, including people who never agreed to participate and at least one professor who died in January. Kara Swisher, whose name was used without permission, told the company to get ready for her to go full McConaughey on them. Grammarly's CEO says they're disabling the feature while they reimagine it to give experts real control over how they're represented. My Take They trained an AI on people's writing, slapped their names on it, and sold subscriptions based on the implication that you're getting advice from Stephen King or Kara Swisher. Then they buried a disclaimer in the documentation saying none of these people actually endorsed or affiliated with Grammarly. That's the whole business model. Use the reputation, deny the association, collect the $12 a month. The dead professor thing is what got everyone's attention but the living writers are just as mad. Casey Newton found an AI version of himself giving writing advice. Benjamin Dreyer pasted lorem ipsum and got tips from Stephen King. The feature didn't even work, it just pattern-matched famous names onto generic suggestions. Grammarly says they're reimagining the feature to give experts control, but the obvious version of that product is one where you ask people first. They didn't do that because most people would say no, and a feature nobody agreed to be in isn't much of a feature. The apology is about getting caught, not about the thing they did. Hedgie🤗

AI code is breaking Amazon systems at an increasing rate and it's such a problem that junior and mid-level engineers now aren't allowed to commit AI-assisted code without a senior engineer reviewing it. Is anyone surprised?

"Thousand of CEOs admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity," per FORTUNE

🦔 A Guardian investigation found the UK's multibillion-pound AI investment push is built on "phantom investments." CoreWeave's £1bn to bring "two new datacentres" actually meant renting space in facilities built in 2002 and 2015. Nscale's $2.5bn supercomputer was supposed to be live by Q4 2026 but the site is still a scaffolding yard. The government admitted there's no contract, just "an intention to commit capital," and that it's "not playing an active role in auditing these commitments." My Take This is what happens when governments are desperate for AI growth stories and tech companies are happy to provide them. Everyone benefits from the press release. Politicians get to announce billions in investment and thousands of jobs. Companies get favorable treatment and their stock goes up. Nobody checks whether the datacenters are actually new or whether the money is actually real. The UK isn't unique here. Over £500bn in AI investments were promised globally in 2025. I'd bet a lot of it looks like this if you scratch the surface. Renting space in an existing building gets announced as "bringing datacentres to our shores." Buying chips manufactured in Taiwan counts as domestic investment. The supercomputer site is a scaffolding yard. And the government admits it has no mechanism to audit any of it. The money flows to US-headquartered companies and investors, the jobs never materialize, and by the time anyone notices, the next round of announcements has already started. Hedgie🤗

We used to produce fertiliser in Britain. The last major site producing Ammonia closed in 2022 due to high energy prices. Nobody cared. Fertiliser doesn’t excite politicians. Just one example of an industrial output sacrificed to Net Zero. All costs passed onto the consumer.