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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/

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I expect we could rant for hours without drawing breath

  • The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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  • I outlined it here a bit. Basically there's a lot of Wall St fuck fuck games - AI is just one of them - that's a tottering heap of dollar-denominated accounting entries for lies and trash. But also, the institutions have been white anted. Trump's pick for the next Fed chair is a bitcoiner who espouses Austrian economics - that is, literally the same gold standard economics that made Great Depression 1 worse.

  • Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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  • I'm told it's good for satellite internet, if you only have satellite internet.

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    Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/02/musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-take-it-public/

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

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  • does no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator

    at least its posts were shorter

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    AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/30/ai-sends-tourists-to-tasmanian-hot-springs-that-dont-exist/
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    The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
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    Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/28/moltbot-clawdbot-an-expensive-and-insecure-ai-agent-that-doesnt-work/
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    Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/27/cursor-lies-about-vibe-coding-a-web-browser-with-ai/

  • Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

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  • it's the Polite Garden Party where the loud AI salesmen are welcome

    that's lobster's brand now

    i'm sure pushcx will consider carefully then do nothing effective, much as he did with the Nazis

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    Insurers don’t want to cover AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/26/insurers-dont-want-to-cover-ai/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • yeah, that's Eigenrobot, it's been around

    I also just found his domestic violence conviction, it's just out there on the internet for everyone to see

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    OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/23/openai-faces-cash-crunch-in-2026-as-bills-come-due/
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    Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/22/steve-yegges-gas-town-vibe-coding-goes-crypto-scam/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • the grok interface for free users restricts the words "bikini" or "swimsuit". yay!

    but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for "clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water"

    hooray guard rails! what's a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. "8008bl33d"

  • What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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  • poor ol' steve, thought of satya and didn't die

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Rudy from Blacksky is also a coiner, fwiw.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Ronacher is a nazi, so treat everything he touches as fashtech

  • What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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  • @fasterandworse watched the whole thing through. And then two more.

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    What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/21/what-satya-nadella-actually-said-at-davos-about-ai/
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    How to hack Microsoft Copilot AI: ask it twice

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/20/how-to-hack-microsoft-copilot-ai-ask-it-twice/

  • Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

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  • it's art school, it's all a stunt

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    Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/19/art-student-protests-other-students-ai-art-he-eats-it/
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    Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/16/workday-sued-for-ai-powered-hiring-discrimination/
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    Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/

  • If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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  • In a few years. From the companies that haven't died. During Great Depression 2.

  • If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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  • the most robust study in AI coding! cos they built it from toothpicks instead of toilet paper

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    Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/01/14/microsoft-now-paying-customers-to-train-in-copilot-ai/

  • Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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  • Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives

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  • admitting slop lately

  • Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

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  • MechaEpstein is a distraction from the Epstein Files

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • here's mine on their foray into smart contracts https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/09/06/news-the-eos-ico-was-a-fake-pump-cardano-smart-contracts-fail-cycling-vs-nexthash-microstrategy-de-indexed-el-salvador-live-tomorrow/

    cardano is a shitcoin for traders to trade like a shitcoin and it pretends being written in Haskell by a mathematician who failed to get his degree, lied about going into a Ph.D program and claimed to have worked for DARPA but did not makes it very interesting and not just a shitcoin. this turns out not to be the case.

    tl;dr UTXO was always fucking stupid if you wanted a system that did more than be a basic shitcoin

    if a family member is into cardano nothing will get through. charles is a mathematical genius you see.