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•Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lostEnglish
0·1 day agoyoutube 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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yetEnglish
0·2 days agoyes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·5 days agohttps://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mm5ebihpjvtrdunomulbls5m/post/3mrx2xflgp22d
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·5 days agoApparently 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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!English
0·7 days agoit was “fob off” until I discovered merkins don’t understand that one
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity nowEnglish
0·8 days agoAI Overview special cased it, booooo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·12 days agoand covid vaccine denier
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·12 days agoDebian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·13 days agomy god, you found the good HN comment
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·16 days agoyeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·16 days agoyeah, 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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·17 days agohow did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·17 days agoi need to ping ludicity for a pod
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·19 days agoPatreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·19 days agoOlivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0
a heartwarming start to your day
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·20 days agoBalaji’s free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately



















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