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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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2 yr. ago

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

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

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  • you'll get 10,000 records tagged "Romanian shoegaze" and it'll all sound like the y2k emo indie that Xfm rejected

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • I doubt every word of this. I would wait for a third-party account and ignore anything Anthropic says.

  • No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

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  • Mostly they just use Suno, and Suno seems to be a big rigged demo that has training per genre, so you get similar tunes and similar lyrics all the time.

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  • If you get under all the hype slop, it's an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].

    This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.

    At least they don't claim to be doing qubits.

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  • Extropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. "We have a thing! please give us more money? we swear we're still Nazis"

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  • David Hamburger-Helper

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  • when you get this working i am totally copying this for rationalwiki

    i nearly installed caddy just to get iocaine

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  • If you're having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • sticky note under the keyboard

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  • unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as “fuck [name]” and “punch [group]”.

    why are they so bad at this

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • sticky note under the keyboard

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • born to e-waste

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • KeepArseNX

    lead dev: Jia Tan

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • yeah. LLMs are fat. Lesser ML works great tho.

  • Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

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  • i have a pile of long winded comments and emails pretending this tech can be apolitical and how dare i impugn their hard work and science

    there's a reason i moderate against fucking idiots. you have a billion other loungeroom floors on the internet to piss on

  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL FP4

  • AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

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  • yeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • looks pretty good to me, I'd be delighted to produce this sort of work and he's doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.

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  • do please continue!

    (i mean, like i can talk)

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Scrape the web for OpenAI — with the Atlas browser!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/24/scrape-the-web-for-openai-with-the-atlas-browser/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Anti-renewables group uses AI in government inquiry submissions

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/23/anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-government-inquiry-submissions/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com /a-word-on-omarchy/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/19/south-korea-blows-850m-on-failed-ai-school-textbooks/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/
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    now that's what I don't call fashtech, vol. 0 - matz says "fuck this" and takes over RubyGems himself

    www.ruby-lang.org /en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/16/ai-boyfriend-users-radicalise-against-openai-and-self-host-their-chatbot-companions/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/15/ai-is-not-popular-and-ai-users-are-unpleasant-asshats/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    $5,000 grant from Slate Star Codex to get an AI to write 5,000 novels about AI going well, to be fed back into AI training corpuses. This is the most Effective possible Altruism.

    x.com /ChrischipMonk/status/1977769817420841404
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    It’s trivial to prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/14/its-trivial-to-prompt-inject-githubs-ai-copilot-chat/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/13/microsoft-tracks-your-copilot-ai-usage-in-its-workplace-spyware/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/12/microsoft-onedrive-lets-you-disable-ai-face-recognition-three-times-in-a-year/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/11/google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/10/openai-does-deals-to-make-a-deal-and-the-money-is-getting-worried/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Siri-alike has compute problems

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/09/openai-and-jony-ives-siri-alike-has-compute-problems/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI — customers outraged

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/08/salesforce-replaces-help-with-agentforce-ai-customers-outraged/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/dewaffling_tech
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/07/deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/06/microsoft-forget-your-it-department-use-copilot-at-work-anyway/