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•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026English
2·5 days agoAO3 this immediately
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that?English
2·6 days agoincluding Sam
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Claude Code codebase is leakedEnglish
7·6 days agojonny’s thread is sheer awesome
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requestsEnglish
4·7 days agoSo MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal offEnglish
25·14 days agoa Mickey Mouse camera, obviously
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Companies go full AI — then the bill comes dueEnglish
5·14 days agoyesterdays’ news just in, no we won’t
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026English
2·14 days agoCovered one attempt already!
https://awful.systems/post/7387786
Trouble is the sort of investment that’s uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
13·18 days agoif you use Rust enough it just grows like that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
22·18 days agofig. 1: @self hard at work keeping awful systems up and running

from Unix World 1985. enterprise computing was so much more fun in those days
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
2·19 days agoBut along the way, he found a way to take estrogen wrong
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026English
2·25 days agoThey are indeed all run by the same people.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AIEnglish
1·25 days agoNot as far as I know.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Duolingo is dying celebratory threadEnglish
4·1 month agoI did the Spanish-from-English course, which I understand was the best course on Duolingo, from start to finish over 2 years. I also skimmed the English-from-Spanish course.
I got good enough to pick my way slowly through Salvadoran newspaper articles, which is basically what I wanted. (This also teaches me more words.) I need to ping my Spanish-speaking friends to teach me how to fucking speak it though, Duolingo didn’t teach me shit.
(The tabloid newspapers are easy. The pompous newspapers write in a fancy tone which ~nobody in .sv uses. I really wanna read El Faro in Spanish, but it writes in high-level sarcastic and pissed-off. Still a subscriber tho. Guess I gotta git gud!)
.sv Twitter was easy, cos it turns out shitposting is the universal human tongue.
I understand Spanish-from-English in particular has decayed badly in the AI era. Apparently it randomly started teaching someone “vosotros” which was never previously introduced. Pretty sure it still doesn’t teach “vos”, which is annoying (.sv uses vos).
Its main advantage was that I did it at all - the gamification tickled my brain just right - and I did in fact learn anything from it.
I was a paying customer, but my subscription finished a few months after the AI memo, so adios.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the USEnglish
1·1 month agoexcept that it’s all stolen code. whether it’s a copyright violation, well that’s call your lawyer
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
8·1 month agojesus fuck https://urbit.org/blog/olif-and-urbit-ids
with urbit, you can now sniff each other’s farts
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026English
1·1 month agoyeah Carvalho was up to his heck in the whole thing at the time
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026English
2·1 month agoi’ve suffered Masnick’s writing since the early 2000s and he has never learnt to write any better
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026English
2·1 month agoehh. i’m not inclined to hand it to marcus. i can’t think of an example of him saying something new and interesting.





















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