David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiotEnglish
17·6 天前I’M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY’RE ALL FP4
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!English
7·7 天前yeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
4·8 天前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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
4·8 天前do please continue!
(i mean, like i can talk)
Moderation opinion: oh, do fuck off
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025English
3·9 天前did you read either link
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
3·10 天前“yor mums a code smell”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•New paper tries to define AGI, cites hallucinated papersEnglish
8·10 天前Actually Generates Income
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
8·14 天前fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts
sigh
I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
16·15 天前I don’t actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
18·15 天前the fashtech tells are smells.
like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit
lots of people write inner-platforms
lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal
but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•so replacement.ai is funny as hell, but it turns out it's actually the Future of Life Institute (Max Tegmark's lot). more EA on EA violenceEnglish
5·15 天前only if they’re closely related, you understand
“did you hear about the swedish EA with the racism scandal this week”
“which one”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
5·19 天前AI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!
DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical way
AI SHILL: fuck off
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
7·19 天前and a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
6·20 天前a youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot’s left hand
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
8·20 天前I’m apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
9·20 天前take a drink for every 10,000 lies or exaggerations https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tech-skeptics-ai-video-startup-wants-to-change-hollywood
more than that and you’ll wipe out in 5 min
he’s very skeptical u kno
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
4·20 天前I did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
3·20 天前Given this user’s declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.

















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