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.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
5·6 days agoBRYAN JOHNSON: transhumanist body hacker, fucks self up and dies by 50
HUNTER BIDEN: subsists on crack and hookers, will live to 100
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AIEnglish
3·10 days agoNo hard numbers, answer fails, go away
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AIEnglish
11·10 days agoThis appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for “Ecosia” and cut’n’paste some text you had to hand?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
6·17 days agoSon speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggsEnglish
6·17 days agoSoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
4·20 days agoAHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW
fuck
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
8·21 days agoAlsup put this as a point in Anthropic’s favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it’s received wisdom.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)English
2·21 days agothis was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·25 days agothat’s right, NFTs
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·25 days agoNo blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language “Verse” for “metaverse”.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
4·27 days agoI checked the image which says December last year.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads themEnglish
4·27 days agoyou’re talking like you don’t want another fifty match-3 games
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
4·1 month agoBecause after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
71·1 month agothey too slurp at the slop sewer
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
262·1 month agoevery vibe coder insists they’re shooting up krokodil responsibly
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
213·1 month agoI commend to you jonny’s thread on the tests:
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116666900898570791
It keeps turning out that when you look at the AI output, it’s shit.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
122·1 month agowow that guy really went for it huh




















now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest white researcher lady
no no seventeen more of our guys jumped into the flaming pit after the first one, yep
but the NYT printed the scary version of the tale and they wouldn’t make shit up right