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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

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  • Two of the bsky posts are log-in only

    if you're going to do internet research, at this point it's a skill issue. Create a reader account.

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • chromefox

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • lol, Oliver Habryka at Lightcone is sending out begging emails, i found it in my spam folder

    (This email is going out to approximately everyone who has ever had an account on LessWrong. Don't worry, we will send an email like this at most once a year, and you can permanently unsubscribe from all LessWrong emails here)

    declared Lightcone Enemy #1 thanks you for your attention in sending me this missive, Mr Habryka

    In 2024, FTX sued us to claw back their donations, and around the same time Open Philanthropy's biggest donor asked them to exit our funding area. We almost went bankrupt.

    yes that's because you first tried ignoring FTX instead of talking to them and cutting a deal

    that second part means Dustin Moskovitz (the $ behind OpenPhil) is sick of Habryka's shit too

    If you want to learn more, I wrote a 13,000-word retrospective over on LessWrong.

    no no that's fine thanks

    We need to raise $2M this year to continue our operations without major cuts, and at least $1.4M to avoid shutting down. We have so far raised ~$720k.

    and you can’t even tap into Moskovitz any more? wow sucks dude. guess you’re just not that effective as altruism goes

    And to everyone who donated last year: Thank you so much. I do think humanity's future would be in a non-trivially worse position if we had shut down.

    you run an overpriced web hosting company and run conferences for race scientists. my bayesian intuition tells me humanity will probably be fine, or perhaps better off.

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • from the youtube browser comments, "Ladybird is our last hope" seems to be the new standard promotional cut'n'paste phrase

    last hope for what, you might ask? well the true anti-woke browser, which is much more important than actually, say, working.

    presumably brave is too SJW for these guys, as well as basically working insofar as it's just a chrome reskin

    they want the TRUE GLORIOVS FVTVRE that only a nonexistent thing that doesn't fucking work, and won't cos the lead bozo is vibe coding it, can offer.

    in fashtech, promises of future glory always beat present day actually fucking working

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  • dunno, what does the article say?

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • by the guy behind PaleMoon who is a bit of a chud

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  • coming in rizz i'm sure

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    OpenAI does NORAD’s Santa tracker! With apps that don’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/24/openai-does-norads-santa-tracker-with-apps-that-dont-work/

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • sadly, Floorp is going AI browser. I mean, "choice" to pick the bits of rat poop out browser.

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  • welcome to lemmy-mastodon interop! here's your accordion

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • this is the cheapass one they sell on ali

  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • uh have you tried xydfgq-blurble browser it's my home brew fork of chromium and firefox i call it "chromefox" which is also my fursona

    thinking of changing the name to something lighthearted, marketable and non-objectionable like "GNU-Scrotum"

    i am the only maintainer and i keep up with 110% of security issues

    we are not in the android store as the oppressive statists at google said that if i ever switched on this uh "piece of shit" in a built up area theyd cut my nuts off, but

    ignore the FUD about chromefox spilling your bank account and leaking your tastes in hentai and fucking your cat it's all LIES FILTHY LIES by THAT BITCH ANDREW he is SUCH an asshole

    anyway free software stallman was right peace out

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    Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/

  • AI image generators have just 12 generic templates

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  • oh yeah, Suno does the same, it has about 12 songs

  • AI image generators have just 12 generic templates

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  • as i said this is a completely unsurprising result, but it's amusing to know what the twelve templates actually are

    I got an email from the author, he says the paper was a passing observation and he's surprised it's got as much attention as it has

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025

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  • skill issue

    it's the actual cite, you've been led to the water, come the fuck on it's not even a paywall

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  • honestly, whomst amongst us isn't Pompous Interior Design

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    AI image generators have just 12 generic templates

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/22/ai-image-generators-have-just-12-generic-templates/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ‘How do people survive?’ A chat with StopGenAI

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    Robin AI: a legal review AI that was humans! And it just went broke

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/18/robin-ai-a-legal-review-ai-that-was-humans-and-it-just-went-broke/

  • Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%

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  • look, that sounds like tomorrow's problem

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/
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    Amazon discovers AI sucks at automated TV recaps

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/16/amazon-discovers-ai-sucks-at-automated-tv-recaps/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025

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  • who tf is zerophase (apart from a lunduke fan)

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Why Disney just put $1 billion into OpenAI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/12/why-disney-just-put-1-billion-into-openai/
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    Let’s power AI with supersonic jet engine turbines!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/11/lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-turbines/
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    Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/09/microsoft-cuts-ai-sales-quotas-stock-drops-3/
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    LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/08/la-unified-school-district-forces-unfiltered-ai-on-kids/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • look some people just don't like women having hobbies

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Google AI mangles news headlines in ‘Discover’ feed

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed/
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    AI screws us over again: memory shortages, Crucial shutting down

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/04/ai-screws-us-over-again-memory-shortages-crucial-shutting-down/