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 coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish1·15 hours agoty!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English13·2 days agothe 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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it isEnglish11·5 days agothe historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this
tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English6·6 days agoI 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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!English4·7 days agoyeh
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025English6·9 days agonah. Sam’s a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruptionEnglish2·9 days agoIs there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Cursor looks into selling your data for AI trainingEnglish7·9 days agolook, that sounds like a “this afternoon” problem
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Cursor looks into selling your data for AI trainingEnglish16·10 days agoenterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•They really just be making stuff upEnglish4·11 days agowhere was this?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025English4·11 days agoand the budget for fixing literally every frame afterwards, as with their previous demos
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025English11·11 days agoalso, I was at Bible study with Luigi at the time a CEO coincidentally had a bullet-involved collision, as were you
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025English8·13 days agoif you call him an AI promoter he cites his carefully organised blog posts of concerns
meanwhile he was on the early access list for GPT-5
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)English6·13 days agoalso I recall you’re the one claiming us queer perverts must object to aella from a position of being anti-kink, and not because of all the horrible shit she says and does
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)English7·13 days agoFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Q. look, if we throw mean names at the AI grifters fucking up the economy, the culture, our lives, our personal interactions, and everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them? if you really think about it.
A. lol no, the fuck is this dumb bullshit, get the fuck out with this fucking insulting stupidity
Q. but
A. no, we need more shame here. much more. also, the fuck you doing using Warren fucking Ellis as a source in TYOOL 2025, did you remember to consult Neil Gaiman.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)English5·13 days agowireback
Is there an actual cite for this term outside the rapist creep?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billionEnglish11·14 days agoholy shit
Anthropic Judge Rejects $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthropic-judge-blasts-copyright-pact-as-nowhere-close-to-done
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025English5·16 days agoto elaborate, Taler has been busy going nowhere for coming on ten years now. There is no reason to expect it will do anything. It doesn’t do anything ordinary non-nerds don’t already get from money.
Given this, and its track record of going nowhere, how does it seem like it could be big?
(I once had rms email me personally asking me to publicise Taler on my blockchain blog. I never got around to it because I couldn’t find anything interesting to say about it. Literally its only point of interest is the GNU label, same as the only reason anyone knows about Hurd.)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)English6·16 days agolook, if we say mean names at the AI grifters fucking up everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them if you really think about it?
lol no gtfo the fuck is this shit
increasingly equivalent to hand wringing over calling nazis nazis
this
crikey. I assume the CV is in good order and kept updated on the job sites just to see what comes in.