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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/

  • Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway!

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  • the report uses the figure "82%" a lot for other things, I expect they summarised it with Copilot

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

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  • also dorian is a solid chap and that's in very diplomat mode

  • Per Forbes: "Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal."

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  • I am pretty sure the "$3m" deal is fake. There are many ways to claim you're doing a deal that absolutely does not involve a penny moving (except to the publicist), from just fuckin' lying to churning to provisions behind so many conditionals they can't happen, but sum them anyway.

    anyway yeah thiere is nothing not fake about this story

    and in particular no non-fakeable evidence of actual public interest

  • 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

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

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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

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I predict Sam will lose big on the S&C claims. They have made fuckin bank on this bankruptcy, but also their fees have already been ruled entirely reasonable given the shitshow in question, and the near complete recovery for creditors will make them look even better.

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

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  • the robot DJ from the pic mixin' choons, that's fine however

    (i.e. the autoplay list)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • largely not available digitally, though someone's putting together a Borsook reissue

  • Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learn

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  • surely this is a post about tech nazis, and not a post about how to argue language design features.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Cyberselfish by Borsook, several books by Dery but particularly Escape Velocity

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Mark Dery and Paulina Borsook nailed these fuckers square on in the '90s, but nobody reads books

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • it's a shitty paper but even they couldn't avoid the point forever

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • the story of open source burnout for the past 20 years is that venture philanthropy was not a thing, quite the opposite

  • Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learn

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  • "He comes from the Bay Area, being techfash is part of his culture"

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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

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  • oh lol it's even worse

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    Alexa+ rolls out at last! … It’s not so great

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/09/alexa-rolls-out-at-last-its-not-so-great/
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    hilarious thread on gpt-oss

    x.com /jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164
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    OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill us

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/08/openai-announces-gpt-5-please-microsoft-dont-kill-us/
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    Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/06/microsofts-2030-vision-no-mouse-no-keyboard-just-the-ai/
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    Disney fears public backlash, copyright issues over AI ‘Moana’, ‘Tron’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/05/disney-fears-public-backlash-copyright-issues-over-ai-moana-tron/
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    Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/04/wear-metas-ai-creepshot-glasses-or-be-left-behind/
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    UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/03/uk-ai-action-plan-for-justice-a-magic-infallible-ai-precrime-detector/
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    Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/
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    Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/01/figure-ais-botq-humanoid-robot-is-an-investor-demo-not-a-product/
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    Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/31/edward-saatchi-pay-to-make-your-own-bad-ai-south-park-episodes/
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    CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/30/csiro-posts-ai-fake-climate-article-with-made-up-quotes/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/29/copilot-vision-ai-sends-your-data-to-microsoft/
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    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/28/microsoft-copilot-ais-official-avatar-looks-like-a-blob-of-semen/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/27/seraphinne-vallora-dubious-ai-model-hype-again/
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    Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/26/google-ai-overview-is-just-affiliate-marketing-spam-now/
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    16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/25/16-of-employees-pretend-to-use-ai-at-work-to-please-their-boss/
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    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/24/nobody-clicks-past-googles-ai-overviews/
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    Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/23/huge-saastr-replit-vibe-coding-disaster-if-it-ever-happened/
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    Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/22/open-source-projects-reject-ai-code-over-copyright-concerns/