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•Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | Common DreamsEnglish
4·1 day agoJacob Coxon turns out to be solid EA all the way down, since his student days at Cambridge
his Goodreads is a fucking delight. You can tell he’s a rationalist because his top books are E. T. Jaynes and Scott Aaronson. He tried Mishima and couldn’t hack the distance, and I’m going to go so far as to say he didn’t read Mishima because he was looking for a good writer, but because he heard Mishima was a reactionary.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
2·2 days agoand the right situation is work that should not be done
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
3·2 days agotooled and died
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
8·2 days agoyor mums a tool
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
6·2 days agoyeah “I didn’t look at the thing but I must post about it anyway” doesn’t play here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measureEnglish
41·2 days agothey tried so hard to fluff the AI
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English
11·7 days agooh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English
2·8 days agoand a better personality with better opinions
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English
3·8 days agodefending the only work you can get
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English
5·9 days agoit’s run by neoreactionaries
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
15·15 days agoneovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
4·18 days agowhere’s the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
2·19 days agoApache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·23 days agocountdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6·23 days agoI’m using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I’ve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. “New recording” on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.
I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·23 days agocan we kick aella and her friends out of perversion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
4·23 days agoyeah. The word-choice watermarking is an interesting trick for a paper, needs quite a chunk of text, will have a ghastly rate of both false positives and false negatives in real world fraud detection, and is evidently good enough for Gemini not to drink too much its own piss but not much else.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
6·24 days agonow awaiting the Daria crossover





















excuse me sir, you cannot defame VolksBot1488 with these outrageous claims it was not just stretching its arm due to a cramp