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•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
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
2413·1 month agoIt literally is slop. It’s always correct to call slop slop.




















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