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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 15th February 2026

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  • "Dark Enlightenment" was invented for Nick Land for his essay of the same name.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • more proximately, he also went to the Manifold Markets meetup for statistical predictors that just happened to include Jordan Lasker, which is why he keeps making these posts with curiously Lasker-adjacent talking points. It's very disappointing.

  • The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead

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  • Apparently it works in binary.

  • SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI

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  • The Stoller piece is instructive - he's wrong, but it's a perfect example of the resentment and the reasons for the resentment.

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    SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/
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    The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/
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    UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/
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    Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI — A Guy Instead

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/09/waymo-self-driving-cars-powered-by-agi-a-guy-instead/
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    AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/06/ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster/

  • Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right

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  • the second, I think. I'm actually surprised we have no smoking guns on vibe coding in production at MS. Or even one guy saying "hell yeah we totally did."

  • The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off

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  • On the other hand, Nvidia is doing some very questionable circular looking deals.

    On the other other hand, Jensen knows precisely how to surf a bubble while it's bubbling, he's done it before. When you do stupid shit and the number goes up, shareholders don't have a lot to get aggrieved about.

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • The bit where OpenAi and Anthropic need actual real dollars to set on fire.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • But why are we talking about some AI agent platform in the Urbit newsletter? Naturally because we think, Urbit fixes this.

    As a matter of fact, Tlon is already working on this with their Openclaw Plugin for Tlon Messenger. It is currently in an early adopter phase, but they expect to provide an instance of Openclaw with every ship that they host for their users.

    but of course

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I get the worst bottom of the barrel AI ads on the YouTube. At least the viewers find them hilarious.

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    The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/05/the-openai-and-nvidia-100b-not-a-deal-is-off/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/04/microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right/

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I used to be young and pretty, now I'm old and well preserved

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I expect we could rant for hours without drawing breath

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I outlined it here a bit. Basically there's a lot of Wall St fuck fuck games - AI is just one of them - that's a tottering heap of dollar-denominated accounting entries for lies and trash. But also, the institutions have been white anted. Trump's pick for the next Fed chair is a bitcoiner who espouses Austrian economics - that is, literally the same gold standard economics that made Great Depression 1 worse.

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    The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

    podcasts.apple.com /gb/podcast/hater-season-openclaw-with-david-gerard/id1730587238
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    AI makes Microsoft’s Q4 2025 numbers weird and bad

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/03/ai-makes-microsofts-q4-2025-numbers-weird-and-bad/

  • Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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  • I'm told it's good for satellite internet, if you only have satellite internet.

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    Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/02/musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-take-it-public/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • does no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator

    at least its posts were shorter

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    AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/30/ai-sends-tourists-to-tasmanian-hot-springs-that-dont-exist/
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    The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
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    Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/28/moltbot-clawdbot-an-expensive-and-insecure-ai-agent-that-doesnt-work/

  • Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

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  • it's the Polite Garden Party where the loud AI salesmen are welcome

    that's lobster's brand now

    i'm sure pushcx will consider carefully then do nothing effective, much as he did with the Nazis

  • 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.