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.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th November 2026English
1·2 days agoLLM technology - which does have many genuine positive uses
this ain’t it chief
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•Ethereum Foundation goes explicitly suicide cult, your escalating WTF story for the dayEnglish
1·2 days agowe apologise for our war crime of a language
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Tech stocks crash — and so do data center loansEnglish
2·2 days agoI read the rest of their comments and am pretty sure the chance of this is 0
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cultEnglish
4·2 days agoit’s “On information and belief”, so he told someone else who told her.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Elon Musk admits Grok Bot costs too much to serveEnglish
3·8 days agofiiixed thank you
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
9·9 days agothe way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
84·9 days agothis is like the guys on mastodon who mention libreoffice at every opportunity
do you honestly think anyone reading this post hasn’t heard of duckduckgo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going slopEnglish
14·13 days agotell me you didn’t read without saying you didn’t read
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-upEnglish
121·24 days agoif only there were links that answered the question
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US Third Circuit: AI training not fair use after allEnglish
3·27 days agowhat did that have to do with AI or ML?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
2·28 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
5·28 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·1 month agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·1 month agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·1 month agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·2 months agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·2 months agowhat were the other two?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·2 months agogyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you




















cool in the sense of nerdsniping, not in the sense of being in any way a good idea