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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 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.

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

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  • it's art school, it's all a stunt

  • 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

  • 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.

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

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  • obviously Pivot did this

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

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  • yeah that's a classic

    MDMA, however, is meth; it’s literally its name: three-four-methylene-deoxy-methamphetamine.

    amazing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

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  • Two of the bsky posts are log-in only

    if you're going to do internet research, at this point it's a skill issue. Create a reader account.

  • A Nix flake for detecting and removing fascist software

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  • we've got this for a starter

  • A Nix flake for detecting and removing fascist software

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  • /* detects if this is dhh's computer using his ssh pubkey */

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  • Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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  • chromefox

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • lol, Oliver Habryka at Lightcone is sending out begging emails, i found it in my spam folder

    (This email is going out to approximately everyone who has ever had an account on LessWrong. Don't worry, we will send an email like this at most once a year, and you can permanently unsubscribe from all LessWrong emails here)

    declared Lightcone Enemy #1 thanks you for your attention in sending me this missive, Mr Habryka

    In 2024, FTX sued us to claw back their donations, and around the same time Open Philanthropy's biggest donor asked them to exit our funding area. We almost went bankrupt.

    yes that's because you first tried ignoring FTX instead of talking to them and cutting a deal

    that second part means Dustin Moskovitz (the $ behind OpenPhil) is sick of Habryka's shit too

    If you want to learn more, I wrote a 13,000-word retrospective over on LessWrong.

    no no that's fine thanks

    We need to raise $2M this year to continue our operations without major cuts, and at least $1.4M to avoid shutting down. We have so far raised ~$720k.

    and you can’t even tap into Moskovitz any more? wow sucks dude. guess you’re just not that effective as altruism goes

    And to everyone who donated last year: Thank you so much. I do think humanity's future would be in a non-trivially worse position if we had shut down.

    you run an overpriced web hosting company and run conferences for race scientists. my bayesian intuition tells me humanity will probably be fine, or perhaps better off.

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

    OpenAI does NORAD’s Santa tracker! With apps that don’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/24/openai-does-norads-santa-tracker-with-apps-that-dont-work/
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    Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI image generators have just 12 generic templates

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/22/ai-image-generators-have-just-12-generic-templates/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ‘How do people survive?’ A chat with StopGenAI

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Robin AI: a legal review AI that was humans! And it just went broke

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/18/robin-ai-a-legal-review-ai-that-was-humans-and-it-just-went-broke/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Amazon discovers AI sucks at automated TV recaps

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/16/amazon-discovers-ai-sucks-at-automated-tv-recaps/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Why Disney just put $1 billion into OpenAI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/12/why-disney-just-put-1-billion-into-openai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Let’s power AI with supersonic jet engine turbines!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/11/lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-turbines/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/09/microsoft-cuts-ai-sales-quotas-stock-drops-3/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/08/la-unified-school-district-forces-unfiltered-ai-on-kids/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google AI mangles news headlines in ‘Discover’ feed

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    AI screws us over again: memory shortages, Crucial shutting down

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/04/ai-screws-us-over-again-memory-shortages-crucial-shutting-down/
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    Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/03/googles-antigravity-ai-vibe-coder-wipes-your-hard-disk/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/02/lawyers-find-more-work-cleaning-up-after-ai-bots/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/28/natures-latest-ai-generated-paper-with-medical-frymblal-and-factor-fexcectorn/
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    Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/27/epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures/