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.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
3·1 天前people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:
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TechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×English
2·1 天前yeah, the drive to an IPO is purely escape hatch. they did one thing right in that being money bonfires is part of their well-known charm. But this much of a money bonfire, well.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water againEnglish
4·1 天前as if they didn’t put enough of a lie to it when they go to court to stop the details being released
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
4·4 天前this is likely tomorrow’s Pivot
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
4·5 天前I called it out as lies and bullshit, the poster asserted it was totally true and I asked for numbers to support this statistical claim.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersEnglish
4·5 天前I don’t know of any examples that aren’t LLMs themselves.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?English
4·5 天前If you read the post, you’ll see …
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
2·5 天前did you mean to post this in this week’s stubsack?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
5·6 天前looking very much forward to that crashing head first into arXiv threatening a ban if your chatbot fucks up in your name
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
11·6 天前the reply is about as close to being nice and helpful as one could be, really
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TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
9·8 天前we apologise for the world
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TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
20·8 天前The cabal has gone “yeah fuck this” and succumbed to exhaustion https://awful.systems/post/8294148
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
17·8 天前i want to speak to the manager of storytelling
(found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l)

David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%English
3·8 天前that correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.
ohhh lol holy shit, that’d be a fine thread to pull on
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
6·9 天前That’s the neat part, you don’t!
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
5·9 天前bizarre. Magic Dirt was an Australian indie rock band in the 90s.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
8·10 天前“That’s as good as money, sir. These are tokens.”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
5·11 天前someone i recently fucked for the second time



















and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water