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 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
2·10 days agolook some people just don’t like women having hobbies
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
4·10 days agoto
fucksell LSD to children
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
2·10 days agoi am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday
and of course Anil Dash signed it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questionsEnglish
1·8 months agoyour takes combine with your username, which I don’t know how we let through, to suggest this is a good time to guide you to the egress
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English
4·8 months ago“What the hell do you call that routine”
“the LEMMYVERSE!”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English
6·8 months agoDigital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices “black” rather than hiring an actual black person
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English
6·8 months agoif you don’t understand the concept of “digital blackface” as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here
I’m not saying it’s always programming.dev, but
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.English
5·8 months agoyeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google’s ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]English
0·8 months agoI’m not really an accelerationist, but I’ll make an exception for this
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
4·11 months agowe have this year’s greatest pride anthem already and it’s only january
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
3·11 months agoRationalism is a cult, but it’s also a cult franchise that generates smaller cults. Also a lot of the people were not entirely balanced to start with and rationalism made them worse. Anyway, Ziz.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
6·11 months agoyeah bsky is where journalists post now so it’s where they scrape stories from
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
4·11 months agoUlbricht also had really bad lawyers. The FBI evidence on the server in Iceland was tainted in fairly obvious ways and he coulda got much of the case thrown out, then just … didn’t? I can’t find it, but Nicholas Weaver wrote some stuff on this.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
6·11 months agoit’s better than that, he didn’t dump a penny in
the deal is:
- they get unregulated
- they promise to spend money they were going to anyway, they’re totally getting round to it bro
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitlesEnglish
6·11 months agothe Smasnug investigation is amazing
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
15·11 months agoalso they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systemsEnglish
11·11 months agothey can’t even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it’s about $1000 per query lol
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Could can openers feel pain? How about AIs? Google researchers ask the leading questionsEnglish
3·11 months agoor just ask for one here
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”English
8·11 months agodo it




















who tf is zerophase (apart from a lunduke fan)