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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/

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

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  • lol. The comment on the video that appears to read "Great video!" is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • AT is fashtech. This needs a proper writeup I realise, but it ticks too many boxes in theory and practice. I don't welcome this style of openwashing, where it's COMPLETELY OPEN except in all practice. Like, you could say the same about Urbit.

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

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  • Various characters that aren't ASCII but are shaped the same, or sneaking in text encoded in flag emojis, stuff like that.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • it's a great day for high velocity egress

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • reviewing their contributions in general, this user is not suited to this forum and has been T-shirt cannoned off the egress.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • looks good!

    i would LOVE them to get an actual designer though. If ever a laptop looked like open source ...

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • the Eich controversy is dumber than that. His donation against gay marriage made international press in 2012! Somehow nobody on the Mozilla board realised this would be the entire story in 2014! jfc

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • Microsoft: forget your IT department, use Copilot at work anyway!

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  • the report uses the figure "82%" a lot for other things, I expect they summarised it with Copilot

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • also dorian is a solid chap and that's in very diplomat mode

  • Per Forbes: "Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal."

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  • I am pretty sure the "$3m" deal is fake. There are many ways to claim you're doing a deal that absolutely does not involve a penny moving (except to the publicist), from just fuckin' lying to churning to provisions behind so many conditionals they can't happen, but sum them anyway.

    anyway yeah thiere is nothing not fake about this story

    and in particular no non-fakeable evidence of actual public interest

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

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  • there's only one YouTube channel everyone should be following

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • there's a writeup to do of Bluesky and AT-protocol as fashtech, start from this one https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/

    there's more detail to add for the explicit case for atproto as fashtech (including the bit where they're increasingly mask-off rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries and transphobes), but yelling about decentralisation while keeping a pile of obscured but load-bearing points of central control is a good tell

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • holy shit that site

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • as part of Syllable it was absolutely an interesting nerd project "yeah let's write a browser!!"

    then fashtech funding knocked on the door, Kling put on his red baseball cap and took ladybird out on the road

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I predict Sam will lose big on the S&C claims. They have made fuckin bank on this bankruptcy, but also their fees have already been ruled entirely reasonable given the shitshow in question, and the near complete recovery for creditors will make them look even better.

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  • the robot DJ from the pic mixin' choons, that's fine however

    (i.e. the autoplay list)

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    We try Suno’s AI music generator — hear Suno fail the Fall

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/08/we-try-sunos-ai-music-hear-suno-fail-the-fall/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/07/anthropic-ai-pays-off-authors-with-just-1-5-billion/
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    Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/06/edward-saatchi-maybe-not-the-orson-welles-of-ai/
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    Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/05/google-quietly-vanishes-its-net-zero-carbon-commitment/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/04/openai-is-using-legal-threats-to-harass-its-critics/
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    DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/03/dragoncon-ejects-ai-artist-to-approval-of-all/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Vibe coding is getting rancid even for venture capital

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/02/vibe-coding-is-getting-too-rancid-even-for-venture-capital/
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    this seemed harsh ten years ago, but in 2025? it's quite calm and measured

    deadspin.com /hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Fake freelance journalism with AI — until you’re busted

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/01/fake-freelance-journalism-with-ai-until-youre-busted/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/31/31-of-employees-are-sabotaging-your-corporate-ai-strategy/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/30/taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work/
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    Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/29/vibe-coded-build-system-nx-gets-hacked-steals-vibe-coders-crypto/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/27/softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/26/excel-copilot-make-up-spreadsheet-numbers-with-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Perplexity’s AI browser Comet can be prompt-injected by any website

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/25/perplexitys-ai-browser-comet-can-be-prompt-injected-by-any-website/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/24/commonwealth-bank-fires-un-fires-call-centre-over-ai/
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    the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

    www.ft.com /content/96e14cb0-f49f-4632-b94f-2d1cdc625f8b
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/23/ai-winter-is-in-the-air-but-we-think-the-ai-bubble-keeps-going-until-2027/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Prompt-inject an AI chatbot with … an image!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/22/prompt-inject-an-ai-chatbot-with-an-image/