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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/

  • Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

  • Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

  • youtube comments:

    Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man

    Are we entering the "identifying who will be going to prison" stage of this scam now? I'd love it as this is my favorite part.

    "Situational Awareness"?, what's the next of the next company, "Object Permanence"?

    How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he's writing a fucking book. Sorry. 'Writing' a fucking 'book'

    When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you'd never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.

  • Our friends open brokerage accounts

  • Mitchell, you've been around rationalism long enough.

  • When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global Inequality

  • what's good about this article to be worth posting?

  • Random Positivity Threads

  • probably time for a new thread!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available.

    This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis (video)

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    Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/30/google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer/

  • Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

  • it was "fob off" until I discovered merkins don't understand that one

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    Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/29/lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot-teachers-onto-the-poor-kids/

  • Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

  • AI Overview special cased it, booooo

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    have you ever sent a promotional email to someone who thinks you all belong in jail?

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/28/sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-singularity-now/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/27/chrome-forces-gemini-global-shortcut-onto-your-mac/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • and covid vaccine denier

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Codeberg bans AI slop software projects

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • my god, you found the good HN comment

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    Émile Torres deep-sneers Nick Bostrom, the smartest man in Sweden

    www.realtimetechpocalypse.com /p/41779538-5a1a-491d-b937-7e6d4ccd2683
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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    OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/22/openai-hacks-huggingface-with-an-ai-allegedly/
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    New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/21/new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-ai-britain-into-the-cabinet/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • yeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • yeah, subculturally they're unrelated strains

    like, just factually in terms of history, they're unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they're not the same as a group at all.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • i need to ping ludicity for a pod

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it

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    Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI

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    “At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.”

    www.thenewcritic.com /p/manifest-man
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    Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/
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    Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/07/15/meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them/