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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/

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

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  • I have no idea and I wonder if The Information does either.

  • Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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  • i wish it didn't

  • Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

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  • and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:

  • GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

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  • yeah, the drive to an IPO is purely escape hatch. they did one thing right in that being money bonfires is part of their well-known charm. But this much of a money bonfire, well.

  • Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

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  • as if they didn't put enough of a lie to it when they go to court to stop the details being released

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    Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/19/tucson-project-blue-data-centres-lie-about-water-again/
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    GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • this is likely tomorrow's Pivot

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • I called it out as lies and bullshit, the poster asserted it was totally true and I asked for numbers to support this statistical claim.

  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • I don't know of any examples that aren't LLMs themselves.

  • Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?

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  • If you read the post, you'll see ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • did you mean to post this in this week's stubsack?

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    arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/15/arxiv-bans-academic-authors-for-ai-slop-papers/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • looking very much forward to that crashing head first into arXiv threatening a ban if your chatbot fucks up in your name

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • the reply is about as close to being nice and helpful as one could be, really

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    Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/14/kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-centre-will-it-happen/
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    Google replaces your PC mouse with yelling at Gemini

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/13/google-replaces-your-pc-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini/

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • we apologise for the world

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%

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  • that correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.

    ohhh lol holy shit, that'd be a fine thread to pull on

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    GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/12/gitlab-announces-ai-layoffs-stock-goes-down-9/

  • Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs

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  • That's the neat part, you don't!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • bizarre. Magic Dirt was an Australian indie rock band in the 90s.

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    Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/11/banks-turn-data-centre-loans-into-2008-style-financial-time-bombs/
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    OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/08/openai-may-not-be-able-to-ipo-in-2026/
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    Google Chrome force-installs a 4-gigabyte AI model — how to get rid of it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/07/google-chrome-force-installs-a-4-gigabyte-ai-model-how-to-get-rid-of-it/
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    OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/06/openai-chatgpt-goes-goblin-mode-let-none-say-model-collapse/
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    Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/05/grok-ai-unofficial-crypto-wallet-hacked-with-an-nft-and-a-prompt-injection/
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    Microsoft VS Code says Copilot AI wrote all your code

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/04/microsoft-vs-code-says-copilot-ai-wrote-all-your-code/
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    Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide (video interview)

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    OpenAI to Microsoft: It’s not me, it’s you

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/30/openai-to-microsoft-its-not-me-its-you/
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    OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT — but it won’t save them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/29/openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-but-it-wont-save-them/
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    Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/28/tokenmaxxing-how-much-did-you-spend-in-tokens-ceo-of-tokens/
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    Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/27/kohl-verlags-new-line-of-ai-slop-school-textbooks/
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    Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/24/project-lobster-microsoft-brings-copilot-ai-to-openclaw/
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    Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes the customers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/23/claude-code-rate-limits-anthropic-ai-squeezes-the-customers/
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    Oh no! The President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus is in trouble

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/22/oh-no-the-president-donald-j-trump-advanced-energy-and-intelligence-campus-is-in-trouble/