David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
4Ā·4 days agowhereās the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
2Ā·5 days agoApache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9Ā·9 days agocountdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6Ā·9 days agoIām using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and Iāve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. āNew recordingā on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.
I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9Ā·9 days agocan we kick aella and her friends out of perversion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Anthropic watermarks AI output ā and the AI bros yellEnglish
4Ā·9 days agoyeah. The word-choice watermarking is an interesting trick for a paper, needs quite a chunk of text, will have a ghastly rate of both false positives and false negatives in real world fraud detection, and is evidently good enough for Gemini not to drink too much its own piss but not much else.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Anthropic watermarks AI output ā and the AI bros yellEnglish
6Ā·10 days agonow awaiting the Daria crossover
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7Ā·12 days agoWorm x blockchain fanfic
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7Ā·12 days agoShort punchy writing? GO SHORTER.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7Ā·13 days agotop quality extremely offended dork
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
9Ā·16 days agolisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long
so in that sense itās in character
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
8Ā·16 days agoworse yet, Amazon actually has uses for that much data centre
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencersEnglish
5Ā·21 days agothis should really be sneerclub i guess, pretend i put it there too
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026English
4Ā·23 days agowhy you little
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI ā and lostEnglish
11Ā·23 days agoyoutube comments:
Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man
Are we entering the āidentifying who will be going to prisonā stage of this scam now? Iād love it as this is my favorite part.
āSituational Awarenessā?, whatās the next of the next company, āObject Permanenceā?
How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume heās writing a fucking book. Sorry. āWritingā a fucking ābookā
When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere youād never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yetEnglish
12Ā·24 days agoyes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global InequalityEnglish
1Ā·27 days agowhatās good about this article to be worth posting?

















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