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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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3 yr. ago

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 30th August 2026 - awful.systems

  • where's the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?

  • There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein

  • Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip

  • There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein

  • ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong

  • There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein

  • there's this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/

    While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.

  • There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein

  • yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.

  • There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein

  • I wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can't find now, about the early history of Vox's "explainers". They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • Apache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME

  • bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • fwiw, that HP cult doesn't have a body count (that I know of)

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    bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Tante on AI: ‘When this thing crashes, I want to see apologies’ (video)

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/20/how-to-hack-copilot-ai-ask-it-how-to-hack-it/
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    what Craig Wright's been doing since not inventing bitcoin

    www.ft.com /content/fe3a8ce6-e348-4588-aba0-bb88650f87b9
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Memory prices are up 500% in the past year — because of AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • countdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • I'm using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I've found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. "New recording" on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.

    I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026

  • can we kick aella and her friends out of perversion

  • Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

  • yeah. The word-choice watermarking is an interesting trick for a paper, needs quite a chunk of text, will have a ghastly rate of both false positives and false negatives in real world fraud detection, and is evidently good enough for Gemini not to drink too much its own piss but not much else.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/18/data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians/

  • Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

  • now awaiting the Daria crossover

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

  • oh it's worse, people send me this shit

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • Short punchy writing? GO SHORTER.

  • my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

  • someone who has crossed paths with the EAs previously sent it to me!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • top quality extremely offended dork

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this

    tally.so /r/81YD8z
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST??

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/14/turkey-asks-the-ai-are-you-a-terrorist/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/13/amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-payment

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/12/xai-data-centre-contractors-file-liens-for-non-payment/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026

  • lisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long

    so in that sense it's in character

  • SneerClub @awful.systems
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    UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA front

    www.telegraph.co.uk /gift/23731f653ebf2657
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/11/meta-brings-the-superintelligent-ai-future-probably/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/10/robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Molly White: following the AI and crypto money in US politics (video)

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    The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/