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 19th July 2026English
2·4 days agoi need to ping ludicity for a pod
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
3·5 days agoPatreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
5·6 days agoOlivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0
a heartwarming start to your day
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
8·7 days agoBalaji’s free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
2·7 days agoPause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
6·7 days agolooks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything
there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren’t going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it’s a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn’t really have a compelling use case in its own right.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
6·7 days agoi mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism
i saw TPOTs on Twitter going “shit I know him”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
6·7 days agofor those not following it’s https://mas.to/@zzt/
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing themEnglish
111·10 days agonow 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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
6·16 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
3·20 days agoNo hard numbers, answer fails, go away
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AIEnglish
11·20 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
6·26 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
6·26 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
4·1 month 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
8·1 month 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
2·1 month 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
3·1 month agothat’s right, NFTs


















how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat