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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/

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

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  • have you ever met actual anti nuclear activists

  • 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 f*shtech 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.

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • Keep Arse

  • 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.

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

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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

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

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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

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

    dl.acm.org /doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    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/
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    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/
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    Microsoft’s Office 365 workslop generator — for ‘vibe working’

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

    Friend AI fails to make friends

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/29/friend-ai-fails-to-make-friends/
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    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/
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    Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/27/massachusetts-mcas-tests-sorry-kid-ai-says-fail/
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    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/
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    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/
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    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/
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    Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/23/workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word/
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    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/
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    ‘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/
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    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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    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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    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/