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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 24th August 2025

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  • and never reading the Sequences and having fun at VibeCamp with their fellow smol bean uwu race scientists, very important

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

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  • this cult franchise was tangential to the Ziz cult, wasn't it?

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

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  • Rolls-Royce are looking at this as a big sack with a "£" on the side.

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

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  • has anyone worked out who Hossenfelder's new backer is yet

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • it was!

  • DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!

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  • got the wrong song stuck in my head

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • this guy actually lost a bundle in NFTs a few years ago

  • OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill us

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  • I've tested Gemini on this stuff. Sometimes it spots the syntax error and even suggests a more elegant rewrite. Sometimes it just completely shits itself.

  • Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!

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  • Kai Lentit: Senior Engineer Uses vim Via Voice Control

  • Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

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  • Augmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don't even have screens or projectors!

  • Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

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  • just found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.

  • Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

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  • the interesting thing is i looked and that isn't actually a big enough market to sustain itself

  • Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

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  • Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram's cryptography follows directly

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • thiel

  • Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

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  • a lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).

    that's the story, but this doesn't work, like, at all, with just a moment's thought.

    if humanoid was a good shape we'd have humanoid robots already.

    the reason is they're selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • That's Yudkowsky and Piper's "glowfic"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • they're a Thiel op

  • Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

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  • UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

  • Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

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  • because i know what you like

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

    Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/11/17/coca-colas-new-ai-generated-christmas-ad-is-as-bad-as-youd-expect/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning

    anderegg.ca /2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/08/19/google-is-no-longer-asking-feed-the-ai-or-youre-not-in-search-results/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/07/31/can-artificial-intelligence-speak-for-incapacitated-patients-at-the-end-of-life-no-and-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI does stand-up: ‘cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/07/14/ai-does-stand-up-cruise-ship-comedy-material-from-the-1950s-but-a-bit-less-racist/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Mother Jones sues OpenAI and Microsoft - best pic of Sam Altman-Fried

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/06/28/mother-jones-sues-openai-and-microsoft/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    "It’s sad that DeepDream is technically abandonware. I did some work on porting it to a webservice in a Docker container last summer, it’s history worth keeping"

    github.com /Kezzsim/deepdream-api-docker
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    this looks fun. Get an old analogue oscilloscope and run a simple chaos generator through it. {PDF}

    www.chaotic-circuits.com /wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Build-a-chaos-generator-in-5-minutes.pdf