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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 25th January 2026

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  • yeah, that's Eigenrobot, it's been around

    I also just found his domestic violence conviction, it's just out there on the internet for everyone to see

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • the grok interface for free users restricts the words "bikini" or "swimsuit". yay!

    but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for "clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water"

    hooray guard rails! what's a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. "8008bl33d"

  • What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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  • poor ol' steve, thought of satya and didn't die

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Rudy from Blacksky is also a coiner, fwiw.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Ronacher is a nazi, so treat everything he touches as fashtech

  • What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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  • @fasterandworse watched the whole thing through. And then two more.

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    What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/21/what-satya-nadella-actually-said-at-davos-about-ai/
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    How to hack Microsoft Copilot AI: ask it twice

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/20/how-to-hack-microsoft-copilot-ai-ask-it-twice/

  • Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

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  • it's art school, it's all a stunt

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    Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/19/art-student-protests-other-students-ai-art-he-eats-it/
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    Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/16/workday-sued-for-ai-powered-hiring-discrimination/
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    Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/

  • If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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  • In a few years. From the companies that haven't died. During Great Depression 2.

  • If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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  • the most robust study in AI coding! cos they built it from toothpicks instead of toilet paper

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    Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/14/microsoft-now-paying-customers-to-train-in-copilot-ai/
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    If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/13/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-performance-numbers/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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    No, Dell is still pushing AI in PCs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/12/no-dell-is-still-pushing-ai-in-pcs/
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    If users notice your software, you’re already a loser

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

  • Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

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  • MechaEpstein is a distraction from the Epstein Files

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • here's mine on their foray into smart contracts https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/09/06/news-the-eos-ico-was-a-fake-pump-cardano-smart-contracts-fail-cycling-vs-nexthash-microstrategy-de-indexed-el-salvador-live-tomorrow/

    cardano is a shitcoin for traders to trade like a shitcoin and it pretends being written in Haskell by a mathematician who failed to get his degree, lied about going into a Ph.D program and claimed to have worked for DARPA but did not makes it very interesting and not just a shitcoin. this turns out not to be the case.

    tl;dr UTXO was always fucking stupid if you wanted a system that did more than be a basic shitcoin

    if a family member is into cardano nothing will get through. charles is a mathematical genius you see.

  • Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

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  • obviously Pivot did this

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    Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/09/grok-generates-bikini-pics-of-children-uk-us-oddly-powerless/
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    US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/07/us-voters-hate-ai-and-politicians-are-noticing/
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    Most venture capital deals are now AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/06/most-venture-capital-deals-are-now-ai/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • yeah that's a classic

    MDMA, however, is meth; it’s literally its name: three-four-methylene-deoxy-methamphetamine.

    amazing

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    Channel 9 Australia’s AI TV promo and cartoon

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/05/channel-9-australias-ai-tv-promo-and-cartoon/

  • 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.

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    From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/31/from-2015-its-ubeam-never-mind-reality-heres-the-vcs/

  • 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.

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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