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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 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • IoM cribs from the ENC, here's to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

  • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what

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  • OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

  • Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!

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  • it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

    "I love it!!"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • there's having a favourite animal, then there's whatever this is

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

  • AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027

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  • oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

  • Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI

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  • that's what we used to say about crypto

  • the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

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  • good news is the economy will collapse anyway, Wall St is running a multipronged scam economy right now

  • the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

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  • it is not

  • the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

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  • i heard capybaras are normally the chillest of all the animals, but fucking loathe AI

  • the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

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  • absolutely fucking fake as shit, yes

  • AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027

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  • dont let ... the door .. ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • it is difficult to overstate the stupendous degree to which Peter Kyle's job is beyond him

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • BLOOMBERG BREAKING: Sam Altman promises that GPT-6 will generate Ghibli images with levels of piss yellow heretofore "unseen"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • gemini isn't even trying now

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

    EchoLeak — send an email, extract secret info from Microsoft Office 365 Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/15/echoleak-send-an-email-extract-secret-info-from-microsoft-office-365-copilot-ai/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/14/meta-ai-posts-your-personal-chats-to-a-public-feed/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/13/meta-buys-into-scale-ai-in-the-quest-for-fresh-data/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/12/disney-sues-ai-image-generator-midjourney/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/05/29/game-studios-love-ai-the-gamers-hate-it/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/05/08/christopher-pelkey-ai-victim-testimony-from-beyond-the-grave/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/05/07/ai-computers-arent-selling-because-users-dont-care/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/04/29/generative-ai-no-significant-impact-on-earnings-or-recorded-hours-in-any-occupation/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/04/15/video-the-rode-nt-usb-mini-is-a-lovely-little-podcast-mic-2025/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Get a portable monitor, they’re great

    davidgerard.co.uk /blockchain/2025/02/11/get-a-portable-monitor-theyre-great/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/02/08/deepseek-roundup-banned-by-governments-no-guard-rails-lied-about-its-training-costs/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

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

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD

    psi3.ru /blog/swl01u/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/01/23/youtuber-f4mi-tells-you-how-to-poison-ai-video-scrapers-with-%d0%b0ss-subtitles/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/01/05/elsevier-rewrites-academic-papers-with-ai-without-telling-editors-or-authors/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/01/04/nvidia-primes-the-pump-puts-1b-of-pocket-change-into-ai-startups/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/12/15/apple-intelligence-ai-mangles-headlines-so-badly-the-bbc-officially-complains/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    BrandShite: RPG about taking down other people's entire websites

    lvngbth.itch.io /brandshite
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/12/07/a-polite-disagreement-bot-ring-is-flooding-bluesky-reply-guy-as-a-disservice/