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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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3 yr. ago

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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

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  • "That's as good as money, sir. These are tokens."

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

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  • someone i recently fucked for the second time

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  • I spent January 1990 I think? reading all of Analog/Astounding from about 1959 to 1975. (It was 40 deg C all month and I stayed in with my aircon.) I loved that stuff from anthologies of the best of it, and I can assure you the original mags are extremely much the 90%.

  • OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’

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  • the youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady

  • OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’

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  • You can't stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.

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

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  • the guy's a bit of an infosec mall ninja, so reread anything he claims in the calmest possible way

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

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  • we're still sending the occasional carrier pigeon and I can assure you he's COPING JUST FINE REALLY JUST FINE

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

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  • STATE OF THE SNEER

    • our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
    • the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
    • in the meantime he's living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
    • Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
    • I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
    • all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!

  • Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection

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  • "$177,000" in hypothetical mark to market value, so yeah aobut $10 in practice if that

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • Cremieux and Siskind prions.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • anthropic has large gametes

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • it's like no no we're not ALL basilisk believers

    fuckers ANY of you are

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • yeah, complaints about Ed's tone tend to be in direct proportion to how many numbers he's brought (and peppered with "fuck")

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • As compared to Xubuntu?

    I believe Xfce is still on X11 and Wayland is still "experimental" this cycle.

    I considered Alpine, but I got actual work to do and I already have enough lib issues with OpenShot. (Even in an AppImage, which should be safe from that shit. Flatpak behaves tho.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • every one of them has read it

    they particularly liked the zombie sex and the incest

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • hello hello AI coverer here, Ed brings the numbers, which is insanely valuable work, and he's at the stage where people just tell him shit now (it's a great stage to be at), and Piper is a fucking idiot as usual

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • oh i have made sure i'm back on the AI Hater and AI Slurs labels

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  • still looking at Debian over 26.04

    will be disappointing because Xubuntu really is just that little bit nicer than stock Xfce, but oh well

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  • Wrong’un

    dammit why didn't I think of this a decade ago

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    Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/21/gudtrip-the-ai-agent-vape-pen-with-blockchain/
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    Russia demands a sovereign AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/20/russia-demands-a-sovereign-ai/
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    Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/17/objection-ai-venture-capital-tries-to-block-bad-press/
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    Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/16/shoe-company-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-and-the-stock-goes-up-580/
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    Maine bans new data centres until November 2027

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/15/maine-bans-new-data-centres-until-november-2027/
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    Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/
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    AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/13/ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house/
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    OpenAI pulls out of Stargate UK data centre

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/10/openai-pulls-out-of-stargate-uk-data-centre/
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    Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/09/claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly/
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    OpenAI IPO proceeds — even as CFO says the company is ‘not ready’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/08/openai-ipo-proceeds-even-as-cfo-says-the-company-is-not-ready/
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    Associated Press dumps journalists for AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/07/associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai/
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    Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/03/nobody-wants-openai-shares-on-the-secondary-market/
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    Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/02/microsoft-ai-reshuffle-mustafa-suleyman-goes-ai-doomsday-crank/
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    Claude Code codebase is leaked

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/01/claude-code-codebase-is-leaked/
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    GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/31/github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests/
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    OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/30/openai-offers-17-5-on-venture-deal-how-can-it-do-that/
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    The AI bubble and the global polycrisis

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/27/the-ai-bubble-and-the-global-polycrisis/
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    BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/26/buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke/
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    OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/25/openai-shuts-down-sora-video-disney-deal-off/
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    Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/03/24/walmart-dumps-openai-at-the-checkout/