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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 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stephenson knows how computers work.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • and it made it to being an actual content guideline, not just an essay!

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

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  • I would guess the latter.

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

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  • I speak many phrase from your Englander language!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Rust is the tr*ns language with programmer socks, you see

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • and they're all using chatbots in their methodology and for the mandatory reviews

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • I'm guessing ivermectin and miasma theory

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

    You know they meant they'd ask a chatbot

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • That seems potentially unwise.

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • hey hey hey!! there's always making it a Conference Proceeding

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • That's a great question! If it's for an AI power station, it turns out that 3.6 roentgen is a nutritional requirement.

    Is there anything else I can help you with?

    • Health benefits of radioactive glue on pizza
    • Why South Memphis needs a nuclear reactor built in 6 months
    • Why you need an anime waifu who glows in the dark

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • plutonium, looks like:

    US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium - Oct 21st https://www.ft.com/content/2fbbc621-405e-4a29-850c-f0079b116216 https://archive.is/Pc949

    The Department of Energy on Tuesday published an application that nuclear energy groups can use to seek up to 19 metric tonnes of the government’s weapons-grade plutonium from cold war-era warheads.

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    At least two companies, Oklo, which is backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and France’s Newcleo, are expected to apply to access the government’s plutonium stockpile.

    may I just say:

    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

    However, experts have raised concerns about the commercial use of plutonium and the risk of the material falling into the wrong hands.

    NO SHIT

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • I'm sure there will be no issues setting up nuclear fuel handling at ports worldwide. Well, maybe one or two.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • Trump was ready to give some Sam Altman project highly enriched uranium, though I'm not clear on whether that was 20% (already considered a serious proliferation risk) or full bomb-grade 95%.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • helps to be the US Navy and not be worried about costs

    ship-sized SMR power is quite expensive!

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they're liberal colonialism writ large but they're nice about it, until they aren't

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • christ these people are so bad at reading things

    Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds

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    Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/27/electronic-arts-is-losing-income-and-crippled-by-debt-more-ai/
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    Scrape the web for OpenAI — with the Atlas browser!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/24/scrape-the-web-for-openai-with-the-atlas-browser/
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    Anti-renewables group uses AI in government inquiry submissions

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/23/anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-government-inquiry-submissions/
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    the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

    xn--gckvb8fzb.com /a-word-on-omarchy/
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    South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/19/south-korea-blows-850m-on-failed-ai-school-textbooks/
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    How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/
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    now that's what I don't call fashtech, vol. 0 - matz says "fuck this" and takes over RubyGems himself

    www.ruby-lang.org /en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/
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    ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/
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    AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/16/ai-boyfriend-users-radicalise-against-openai-and-self-host-their-chatbot-companions/
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    AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/15/ai-is-not-popular-and-ai-users-are-unpleasant-asshats/
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    It’s trivial to prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/14/its-trivial-to-prompt-inject-githubs-ai-copilot-chat/
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    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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    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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    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
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    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/