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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/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • David Hamburger-Helper

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • when you get this working i am totally copying this for rationalwiki

    i nearly installed caddy just to get iocaine

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • If you're having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • sticky note under the keyboard

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as “fuck [name]” and “punch [group]”.

    why are they so bad at this

  • KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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  • sticky note under the keyboard

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • born to e-waste

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • I'm failing to see the ambiguity here. He repeatedly says it's in the devices (PC, phones) and then that it's on the edge. So those devices are what he means by the edge.

    This comes across as failure to read the text.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • KeepArseNX

    lead dev: Jia Tan

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • yeah. LLMs are fat. Lesser ML works great tho.

  • Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

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  • i have a pile of long winded comments and emails pretending this tech can be apolitical and how dare i impugn their hard work and science

    there's a reason i moderate against fucking idiots. you have a billion other loungeroom floors on the internet to piss on

  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL FP4

  • AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

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  • yeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • looks pretty good to me, I'd be delighted to produce this sort of work and he's doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • do please continue!

    (i mean, like i can talk)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • did you read either link

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • "yor mums a code smell"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts

    sigh

    I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.

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

    Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/13/microsoft-tracks-your-copilot-ai-usage-in-its-workplace-spyware/
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    Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/12/microsoft-onedrive-lets-you-disable-ai-face-recognition-three-times-in-a-year/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/11/google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai/
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    OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/10/openai-does-deals-to-make-a-deal-and-the-money-is-getting-worried/
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    OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Siri-alike has compute problems

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/09/openai-and-jony-ives-siri-alike-has-compute-problems/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI — customers outraged

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/08/salesforce-replaces-help-with-agentforce-ai-customers-outraged/
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    Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/dewaffling_tech
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/07/deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government/
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    Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/06/microsoft-forget-your-it-department-use-copilot-at-work-anyway/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Musk’s Grokipedia — Grok AI rewrites Wikipedia

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/05/musks-grokipedia-grok-ai-rewrites-wikipedia/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI wants all the gas power — and prices go up

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/04/openai-wants-all-the-gas-power-and-prices-go-up/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    I’m appalled and saddened to hear that Tilly Norwood’s brief but dazzling career has abruptly ended due to an unforeseen tragedy.

    www.linkedin.com /posts/activity-7380212586438434816-qjR9
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    awesome old AI paper Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (PDF, 1976)

    dl.acm.org /doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    YouTube’s AI DJ interrupts your paid ad-free music

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/03/youtubes-ai-dj-interrupts-your-paid-ad-free-music/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/02/microsoft-copilot-ai-tries-faces-instead-of-a-pearly-blob/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft’s Office 365 workslop generator — for ‘vibe working’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/01/microsofts-office-365-workslop-generator-for-vibe-working/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Friend AI fails to make friends

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/29/friend-ai-fails-to-make-friends/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The finance press finally starts talking about the ‘AI bubble’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/28/the-finance-press-finally-starts-talking-about-the-ai-bubble/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/27/massachusetts-mcas-tests-sorry-kid-ai-says-fail/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Neon buys your phone calls to train AI — then it leaks them all

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/26/neon-buys-your-phone-calls-to-train-ai-then-it-leaks-them-all/