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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 21st September 2025

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  • largely not available digitally, though someone's putting together a Borsook reissue

  • Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learn

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  • surely this is a post about tech nazis, and not a post about how to argue language design features.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Cyberselfish by Borsook, several books by Dery but particularly Escape Velocity

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • Mark Dery and Paulina Borsook nailed these fuckers square on in the '90s, but nobody reads books

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • it's a shitty paper but even they couldn't avoid the point forever

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • the story of open source burnout for the past 20 years is that venture philanthropy was not a thing, quite the opposite

  • Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learn

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  • "He comes from the Bay Area, being techfash is part of his culture"

  • Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

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  • Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show it

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  • oh lol it's even worse

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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  • crikey. I assume the CV is in good order and kept updated on the job sites just to see what comes in.

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • ty!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • the talking point about disparaging terms for AI users by choice "I came up with a racist-sounding term for AI users, so if you say 'clanker' you must be a racist" is so fucking stupid it's gotta be some sort of op

    (esp when the made-up racist-sounding term turns out to have originated with Warren fucking Ellis)

    i am extremely disappointed that awful systems users have fallen for it for a moment

  • Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

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  • the historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this

    tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I have no hope. The guy who introduced me to LessWrong included what I later realised was a race science pitch. Yudkowsky was pushing this shit in 2007. This sucker just realised a coupla decades late.

  • Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!

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  • yeh

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • nah. Sam's a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • Is there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?

  • Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

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  • look, that sounds like a "this afternoon" problem

  • Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

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  • enterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious

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    MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam. That Fortune article? The paper's authors are web3 crypto bros

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Surveys the easy way: fake your data with an AI chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/20/surveys-the-easy-way-fake-your-data-with-an-ai-chatbot/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/19/spreadshirt-to-artists-were-taking-your-designs-for-ai/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI brings huge enterprise efficiencies! Except in making money

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/18/ai-brings-huge-enterprise-efficiencies-except-in-making-money/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/16/at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI ‘chain of thought’ is still just a ‘brittle mirage’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/15/ai-chain-of-thought-is-still-just-a-brittle-mirage/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/14/defra-says-delete-your-emails-to-save-water/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/13/optional-ai-scribe-is-mandatory-if-you-want-to-see-the-doctor/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Prompt-inject Copilot Studio AI via email, grab a company’s whole Salesforce

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/12/prompt-inject-copilot-studio-ai-via-email-grab-a-companys-whole-salesforce/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/11/cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/10/hack-a-smart-home-with-a-calendar-invite-and-google-gemini/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Alexa+ rolls out at last! … It’s not so great

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/09/alexa-rolls-out-at-last-its-not-so-great/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    hilarious thread on gpt-oss

    x.com /jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill us

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/08/openai-announces-gpt-5-please-microsoft-dont-kill-us/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/06/microsofts-2030-vision-no-mouse-no-keyboard-just-the-ai/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Disney fears public backlash, copyright issues over AI ‘Moana’, ‘Tron’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/05/disney-fears-public-backlash-copyright-issues-over-ai-moana-tron/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/04/wear-metas-ai-creepshot-glasses-or-be-left-behind/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/03/uk-ai-action-plan-for-justice-a-magic-infallible-ai-precrime-detector/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/