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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 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • and it made it to being an actual content guideline, not just an essay!

  • Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn

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  • I would guess the latter.

  • Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn

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  • I speak many phrase from your Englander language!

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    AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/26/ai-for-evil-hacked-by-wormgpt/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Rust is the tr*ns language with programmer socks, you see

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • and they're all using chatbots in their methodology and for the mandatory reviews

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • I'm guessing ivermectin and miasma theory

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

    You know they meant they'd ask a chatbot

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    White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/25/white-house-the-us-will-fabricate-science-with-chatbots/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • That seems potentially unwise.

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • hey hey hey!! there's always making it a Conference Proceeding

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    Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • That's a great question! If it's for an AI power station, it turns out that 3.6 roentgen is a nutritional requirement.

    Is there anything else I can help you with?

    • Health benefits of radioactive glue on pizza
    • Why South Memphis needs a nuclear reactor built in 6 months
    • Why you need an anime waifu who glows in the dark

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • plutonium, looks like:

    US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium - Oct 21st https://www.ft.com/content/2fbbc621-405e-4a29-850c-f0079b116216 https://archive.is/Pc949

    The Department of Energy on Tuesday published an application that nuclear energy groups can use to seek up to 19 metric tonnes of the government’s weapons-grade plutonium from cold war-era warheads.

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    At least two companies, Oklo, which is backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and France’s Newcleo, are expected to apply to access the government’s plutonium stockpile.

    may I just say:

    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

    However, experts have raised concerns about the commercial use of plutonium and the risk of the material falling into the wrong hands.

    NO SHIT

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    Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/19/whoops-microsofts-new-windows-ai-agent-platform-lets-in-malware/

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • I'm sure there will be no issues setting up nuclear fuel handling at ports worldwide. Well, maybe one or two.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • Trump was ready to give some Sam Altman project highly enriched uranium, though I'm not clear on whether that was 20% (already considered a serious proliferation risk) or full bomb-grade 95%.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • helps to be the US Navy and not be worried about costs

    ship-sized SMR power is quite expensive!

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they're liberal colonialism writ large but they're nice about it, until they aren't

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • christ these people are so bad at reading things

    Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • subtlety is wasted on most readers

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    Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/18/vibe-nuclear-lets-use-ai-shortcuts-on-reactor-safety/
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    Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/
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    Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/14/anthropic-chinese-ai-hackers-are-after-you-security-researchers-call-bs/
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    No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/13/no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-actually-popular/
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    GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/12/gema-wins-against-openai-on-copying-song-lyrics/
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    Getty Images loses UK suit against Stable Diffusion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/11/getty-images-loses-uk-suit-against-stable-diffusion/
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    Rightmove discovers AI is no excuse for profit warnings

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/10/rightmove-discovers-ai-is-no-excuse-for-profit-warnings/
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    The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/07/the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter-by-nicholas-weaver/
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    Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/06/oxford-pretends-ai-benchmarks-are-science-not-marketing/
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    AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/05/ai-gets-45-of-news-wrong-but-readers-still-trust-it/
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    It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/04/its-the-fake-thing-coca-cola-tries-another-ai-christmas-tv-ad/
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    MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/03/mit-releases-then-quietly-removes-nonsense-ai-cybersecurity-paper/
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    AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/31/ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot/
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    AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/
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    OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/29/openai-goes-for-profit-what-happens-next/
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    Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/28/australia-sues-microsoft-for-forcing-copilot-ai-onto-office-365-customers/