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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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3 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/

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic's favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it's received wisdom.

  • Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)

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  • this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • that's right, NFTs

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language "Verse" for "metaverse".

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    Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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    SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/17/searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • I checked the image which says December last year.

  • We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

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  • you're talking like you don't want another fifty match-3 games

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    We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/
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    Google found liable for defamatory AI overviews

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/15/google-found-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Because after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • they too slurp at the slop sewer

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • every vibe coder insists they're shooting up krokodil responsibly

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • wow that guy really went for it huh

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • It literally is slop. It's always correct to call slop slop.

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    rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/

  • Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page

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  • this is what i like to hear!

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    Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicely

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/02/log-into-any-instagram-by-asking-metas-ai-nicely/
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    Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/01/prompt-inject-chatgpt-with-any-web-page/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • that EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD FUCKING USES

    it's one of the tiny bricks way down the xkcd diagram

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • by "culture wars" she means she's a fucking nazi

    This was the reason Wendy Hanamura cited when she canceled my invitation to speak at the Internet Archive.

    hmm, looking at the text you link it says "your past statements in Twitter" first. could it be they found out you're a fucking nazi

    also you're shocked, shocked to find that 4chan people are assholes. you hang out there for hours at a time. probably just coincidence.

    Tunney has deleted the post already! But there's an archive and another one

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    Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/29/test-software-tells-code-bots-delete-me-ai-bros-outraged/
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    The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • He does, but also that piece is based on talking to the WMF employees, who he knows, and multiple of said employees have forwarded the piece to me.

    It checks out as a good source.

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    McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists’ names on it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/27/mcclatchy-runs-ai-slop-with-journalists-names-on-it/
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    Pope Leo to AI bros: Just stop it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/26/pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it/
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    STOP DOING SEARCHES (a dramatic reading)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • STOP FINDING THINGS

    • WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
    • YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
    • Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA "RANDOM PAGE"
    • "Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS and A PARAGRAPH OF SLOP FIRST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

    LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

    (This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

    • "None of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with the letter 'K'."
    • "Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
    • "Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need."

    "Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn't generated"

    They have played us for absolute fools

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    OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/
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    Amazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit managers’ AI token targets

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/21/amazon-engineers-use-meshclaw-bot-to-hit-managers-ai-token-targets/
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    Google is replacing search results with only the AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/