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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 shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off

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  • a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously

  • Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due

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  • yesterdays' news just in, no we won't

  • OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026

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  • Covered one attempt already!

    https://awful.systems/post/7387786

    Trouble is the sort of investment that's uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep

  • 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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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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  • 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!

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    Accenture: you’re promoted or fired on using the AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/25/accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai/

  • 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.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Meta’s director of AI alignment falls for OpenClaw

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/24/metas-director-of-ai-alignment-falls-for-openclaw/
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    Bet against the bubble: Goldman Sachs’ non-AI stock index

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/23/bet-against-the-bubble-goldman-sachs-non-ai-stock-index/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/20/amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two/
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    AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/19/ai-vibe-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over/
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    Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/18/seedances-generated-ai-cruise-pitt-demo-was-a-green-screen-and-face-swap/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/
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    The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/
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    Let’s vibe-regulate US transport with Gemini!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/13/lets-vibe-regulate-us-transport-with-gemini/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    SaaSpocalypse: investors overspend badly on software companies and blame AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/12/saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-on-software-companies-and-blame-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Waymo self-driving cars, powered by AGI — A Guy Instead

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/09/waymo-self-driving-cars-powered-by-agi-a-guy-instead/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/06/ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster/
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    The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/05/the-openai-and-nvidia-100b-not-a-deal-is-off/
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    Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/04/microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    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

    podcasts.apple.com /gb/podcast/hater-season-openclaw-with-david-gerard/id1730587238
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    AI makes Microsoft’s Q4 2025 numbers weird and bad

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/02/03/ai-makes-microsofts-q4-2025-numbers-weird-and-bad/
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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/
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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/