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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/

  • 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

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

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  • dammit beat me by 7 minutes

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

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  • I guess install it and see!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • first read as lucid screaming

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

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  • lol. The comment on the video that appears to read "Great video!" is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • AT is fashtech. This needs a proper writeup I realise, but it ticks too many boxes in theory and practice. I don't welcome this style of openwashing, where it's COMPLETELY OPEN except in all practice. Like, you could say the same about Urbit.

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

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  • Various characters that aren't ASCII but are shaped the same, or sneaking in text encoded in flag emojis, stuff like that.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • looks good!

    i would LOVE them to get an actual designer though. If ever a laptop looked like open source ...

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • the Eich controversy is dumber than that. His donation against gay marriage made international press in 2012! Somehow nobody on the Mozilla board realised this would be the entire story in 2014! jfc

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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

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  • there's only one YouTube channel everyone should be following

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • there's a writeup to do of Bluesky and AT-protocol as fashtech, start from this one https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/

    there's more detail to add for the explicit case for atproto as fashtech (including the bit where they're increasingly mask-off rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries and transphobes), but yelling about decentralisation while keeping a pile of obscured but load-bearing points of central control is a good tell

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • holy shit that site

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  • as part of Syllable it was absolutely an interesting nerd project "yeah let's write a browser!!"

    then fashtech funding knocked on the door, Kling put on his red baseball cap and took ladybird out on the road

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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    Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/19/business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure/
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    OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! — which doesn’t exist yet

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/18/openai-fights-the-evil-scheming-ai-which-doesnt-exist-yet/
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    shocked, shocked at all these racists

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    We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/17/we-simulated-the-human-mind-with-a-chatbot-it-didnt-work/
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    The hype after AI: lads, it’s looking really quantum

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/16/the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum/
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    UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/15/uk-government-productivity-not-enhanced-by-copilot-ai/
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    Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/14/medical-research-ethics-is-hard-but-fake-ai-data-is-easy/
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    Canadian education report riddled with fake AI references

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/13/canadian-education-report-riddled-with-fake-ai-references/
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    Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/12/cursor-looks-into-selling-your-data-for-ai-training/
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    Apple retrains Siri AI for the Trump anti-’woke’ era

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/11/apple-retrains-siri-ai-for-the-trump-anti-woke-era/
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    New Humanist: The rationalist murders

    newhumanist.org.uk /articles/6458
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    At the forefront of AI thought thought leadership leadership: the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

    alignmentalignment.ai
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    Inception Point — AI spam podcasts with no listeners

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/10/inception-point-ai-spam-podcasts-with-no-listeners/
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    New Scientist reviews the Yudkowsky/Soares book. They don't recommend it.

    www.newscientist.com /article/2495333-no-ai-isnt-going-to-kill-us-all-despite-what-this-new-book-says/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    If AI coding is so good … where are the little apps?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/09/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-little-apps/
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    Only you can stop EA psychosis

    elftheory.substack.com /p/only-you-can-stop-ea-psychosis
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    We try Suno’s AI music generator — hear Suno fail the Fall

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/08/we-try-sunos-ai-music-hear-suno-fail-the-fall/
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    Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/07/anthropic-ai-pays-off-authors-with-just-1-5-billion/
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    Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/06/edward-saatchi-maybe-not-the-orson-welles-of-ai/
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    Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/05/google-quietly-vanishes-its-net-zero-carbon-commitment/