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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 22nd March 2026

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  • if you use Rust enough it just grows like that

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • fig. 1: @self hard at work keeping awful systems up and running

    from Unix World 1985. enterprise computing was so much more fun in those days

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • But along the way, he found a way to take estrogen wrong

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/19/companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/18/facebook-shutting-down-its-horizon-worlds-vr-metaverse/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Kai Lentit: Interview with a sweating AI CEO (2026)

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves: ‘Quantum is an area within AI’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/17/uk-chancellor-rachel-reeves-quantum-is-an-area-within-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI advisor: ‘adult mode’ risks becoming ‘sexy suicide coach’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/16/openai-advisor-adult-mode-risks-becoming-sexy-suicide-coach/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • They are indeed all run by the same people.

  • UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI

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  • Not as far as I know.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    AI chatbot kids’ toys are still an obviously terrible idea

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/13/ai-chatbot-kids-toys-are-still-an-obviously-terrible-idea/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/12/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI bot network Facebook buys AI bot network Moltbook

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/11/ai-bot-network-facebook-buys-ai-bot-network-moltbook/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Block’s AI layoffs are fake too

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/

  • Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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  • I did the Spanish-from-English course, which I understand was the best course on Duolingo, from start to finish over 2 years. I also skimmed the English-from-Spanish course.

    I got good enough to pick my way slowly through Salvadoran newspaper articles, which is basically what I wanted. (This also teaches me more words.) I need to ping my Spanish-speaking friends to teach me how to fucking speak it though, Duolingo didn't teach me shit.

    (The tabloid newspapers are easy. The pompous newspapers write in a fancy tone which ~nobody in .sv uses. I really wanna read El Faro in Spanish, but it writes in high-level sarcastic and pissed-off. Still a subscriber tho. Guess I gotta git gud!)

    .sv Twitter was easy, cos it turns out shitposting is the universal human tongue.

    I understand Spanish-from-English in particular has decayed badly in the AI era. Apparently it randomly started teaching someone "vosotros" which was never previously introduced. Pretty sure it still doesn't teach "vos", which is annoying (.sv uses vos).

    Its main advantage was that I did it at all - the gamification tickled my brain just right - and I did in fact learn anything from it.

    I was a paying customer, but my subscription finished a few months after the AI memo, so adios.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/06/how-much-water-do-the-data-centres-use-its-a-secret/
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    Power price rises are from data centres. Nothing but data centres.

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/05/power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres/

  • AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the US

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  • except that it's all stolen code. whether it's a copyright violation, well that's call your lawyer

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI works can’t be copyrighted or patented in the US

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/04/ai-works-cant-be-copyrighted-or-patented-in-the-us/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • yeah Carvalho was up to his heck in the whole thing at the time

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • i've suffered Masnick's writing since the early 2000s and he has never learnt to write any better

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • ehh. i'm not inclined to hand it to marcus. i can't think of an example of him saying something new and interesting.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • nah

  • Blue Owl won’t give your money back. This is fine

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  • the AI bubble, the private credit bubble (this one), the Wall St Bitcoin thing, etc. are all about writing down a big number with a $ in front on thin justification, then borrowing against it

    this runs into issues tomorrrow. but not today!

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

    OpenAI’s ‘$110b’ funding round is $25b and some promises

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/03/openais-110b-funding-round-is-25b-and-some-promises/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • CS 2005 is absolutely worth it, it's a version of Photoshop that does everything you actually need including CMYK with Pantone.

  • Bet against the bubble: Goldman Sachs’ non-AI stock index

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  • I also didn't say it's a good hedge. It'll stay uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to, when it'll crash in lockstep.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • amazed he got through that without somehow blaming sneerclub

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • "Dark Enlightenment" was invented for Nick Land for his essay of the same name.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • more proximately, he also went to the Manifold Markets meetup for statistical predictors that just happened to include Jordan Lasker, which is why he keeps making these posts with curiously Lasker-adjacent talking points. It's very disappointing.