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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/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • "yor mums a code smell"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts

    sigh

    I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • the fashtech tells are smells.

    like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit

    lots of people write inner-platforms

    lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal

    but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • AI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical wayAI SHILL: fuck off

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • and a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists

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

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  • a youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot's left hand

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • I'm apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant's Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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

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  • I did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.

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

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  • Given this user's declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.

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

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  • this poster doesn't seem to be improving. We wish them well in their posting career to any of the many other Lemmy discussion forums.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • ah minor correction, you're on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry

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  • We hope they enjoy their Fediverse(tm) experience here at Awful

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  • Yeah, that's great, thanks.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • increasing number of social media responses which come across as they think they're giving clarifying orders to a chatbot

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  • Having reviewed your posts, new poster bad.

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  • Sorry, it's science now.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Sneer Zone Media shall TRIUMPH

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

    Musk’s Grokipedia — Grok AI rewrites Wikipedia

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/05/musks-grokipedia-grok-ai-rewrites-wikipedia/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI wants all the gas power — and prices go up

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/04/openai-wants-all-the-gas-power-and-prices-go-up/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    I’m appalled and saddened to hear that Tilly Norwood’s brief but dazzling career has abruptly ended due to an unforeseen tragedy.

    www.linkedin.com /posts/activity-7380212586438434816-qjR9
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    awesome old AI paper Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (PDF, 1976)

    dl.acm.org /doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    YouTube’s AI DJ interrupts your paid ad-free music

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/03/youtubes-ai-dj-interrupts-your-paid-ad-free-music/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/02/microsoft-copilot-ai-tries-faces-instead-of-a-pearly-blob/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft’s Office 365 workslop generator — for ‘vibe working’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/01/microsofts-office-365-workslop-generator-for-vibe-working/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Friend AI fails to make friends

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/29/friend-ai-fails-to-make-friends/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The finance press finally starts talking about the ‘AI bubble’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/28/the-finance-press-finally-starts-talking-about-the-ai-bubble/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/27/massachusetts-mcas-tests-sorry-kid-ai-says-fail/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Neon buys your phone calls to train AI — then it leaks them all

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/26/neon-buys-your-phone-calls-to-train-ai-then-it-leaks-them-all/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/25/are-ai-users-dishonest-if-they-are-this-nature-paper-doesnt-show-it/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/24/lionsgate-still-cant-turn-its-movies-into-an-ai-video-model/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/23/workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word/
  • SneerClub @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The minutest detail of Yudkowsky - the play "about" him, as described by the author, Bobby Silverman

    bsky.app /profile/robertsilverman.bsky.social/post/3lz7j5ccrfs2m
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/22/the-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-the-tony-blair-institute-is-very-worried/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ‘Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment’ said the wallet inspector

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/21/stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-said-the-wallet-inspector/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/20/albanias-ai-minister-speaks-and-turns-out-to-be-an-actor/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    lol, the Atlantic gave the Yudkowsky/Soares book review to Adam Becker

    www.theatlantic.com /books/archive/2025/09/what-ais-doomers-and-utopians-have-in-common/684270/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/19/business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure/