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 26th October 2025English
3·1 day ago“yor mums a code smell”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025English
8·6 days agofuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts
sigh
I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
16·7 days agoI don’t actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the code smells of fashtech: omarchyEnglish
18·7 days agothe fashtech tells are smells.
like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit
lots of people write inner-platforms
lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal
but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
1·11 days agoand a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
2·11 days agoa youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot’s left hand
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
1·11 days agoI’m apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
1·11 days agotake a drink for every 10,000 lies or exaggerations https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tech-skeptics-ai-video-startup-wants-to-change-hollywood
more than that and you’ll wipe out in 5 min
he’s very skeptical u kno
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish
1·11 days agoI did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
2·13 days agoYeah, that’s great, thanks.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
1·13 days agoincreasing number of social media responses which come across as they think they’re giving clarifying orders to a chatbot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
7·13 days agoHaving reviewed your posts, new poster bad.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
9·13 days agoSorry, it’s science now.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English
3·13 days agoSneer Zone Media shall TRIUMPH
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish
121·13 days agodammit beat me by 7 minutes
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!English
7·16 days agoI guess install it and see!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025English
4·16 days agofirst read as lucid screaming
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AIEnglish
7·17 days agolol. The comment on the video that appears to read “Great video!” is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and OmarchyEnglish
1·17 days agodeleted by creator


















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