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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 19th July 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • lolol

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything

    there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren't going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it's a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn't really have a compelling use case in its own right.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism

    i saw TPOTs on Twitter going "shit I know him"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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  • now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest white researcher lady

    no no seventeen more of our guys jumped into the flaming pit after the first one, yep

    but the NYT printed the scary version of the tale and they wouldn't make shit up right

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    Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/13/terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them/
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    NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/10/neurips-conference-ai-cheats-outraged-they-got-caught/
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    Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/
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    Quantum computing doesn’t need to exist to make venture capital deals

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/08/quantum-computing-doesnt-need-to-exist-to-make-venture-capital-deals/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • BRYAN JOHNSON: transhumanist body hacker, fucks self up and dies by 50

    HUNTER BIDEN: subsists on crack and hookers, will live to 100

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    Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/07/google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it/
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    OpenAI ‘Stargate UK’ plan was completely fake

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/06/openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-completely-fake/

  • Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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  • No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

  • Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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  • This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for "Ecosia" and cut'n'paste some text you had to hand?

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    Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/03/ecosias-odious-greenwashing-now-with-ai/
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    Frontiers forces AI onto academic journal editors

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/02/frontiers-forces-ai-onto-academic-journal-editors/
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    AI leaks your company’s code secrets faster than ever

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/01/ai-leaks-your-companys-code-secrets-faster-than-ever/
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    Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/30/sam-altman-movie-blocked-by-ai-partner-distributors/
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    Mythos is just too powerful? OK, we’ll ban it then

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/29/mythos-is-just-too-powerful-ok-well-ban-it-then/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Son speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.

  • SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs

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  • SoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.

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    SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/
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    Office workers are spending way too much on AI too

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/25/office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too/
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    Meta keylogs staff typing for AI training — then leaks it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/24/meta-keylogs-staff-typing-for-ai-training-then-leaks-it/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW

    fuck

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    UK press can opt out of AI overviews, stay in search results

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/23/uk-press-can-opt-out-of-ai-overviews-stay-in-search-results/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic's favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it's received wisdom.

  • Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)

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  • this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

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    Religious exemption from using the AI at work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/22/religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work/
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    Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/19/midjourney-ai-pivots-to-theranos-ultrasonic-ct/

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • that's right, NFTs

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language "Verse" for "metaverse".

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    Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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    SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/17/searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • I checked the image which says December last year.

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    We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/