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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 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The Affront are literally the colonial British, so they're easy

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

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  • ooooh photographic matthew embarking upon his fshtech turn out loud at last?

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

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  • who gets the California accents though

  • Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

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  • It's chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That's assuming the hardware doesn't die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.

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

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  • habryka:

    I have never written a song (without AI assistance) in my life, but I am sure I could learn within a week.

    FUCKIN

  • 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.

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

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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"

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

    Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/27/electronic-arts-is-losing-income-and-crippled-by-debt-more-ai/
  • 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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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

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

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

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/dewaffling_tech
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    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/