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•now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1English3·9 hours agoalso dorian is a solid chap and that’s in very diplomat mode
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Per Forbes: "Al Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal."English12·1 day agoI am pretty sure the “$3m” deal is fake. There are many ways to claim you’re doing a deal that absolutely does not involve a panny moving (except to the publicist), from just fuckin’ lying to churning to provisions behind so many conditionals they can’t happen, but sum them anyway.
anyway yeah thiere is nothing not fake about this story
and in particular no non-fakeable evidence of actual public interest
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•YouTube’s AI DJ interrupts your paid ad-free musicEnglish1·3 days agothere’s only one YouTube channel everyone should be following
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1English12·3 days agothere’s a writeup to do of Bluesky and AT-protocol as fashtech, start from this one https://azhdarchid.com/delusions-of-a-protocol/
there’s more detail to add for the explicit case for atproto as fashtech (including the bit where they’re increasingly mask-off rationalists, coiners, neoreactionaries and transphobes), but yelling about decentralisation while keeping a pile of obscured but load-bearing points of central control is a good tell
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1English7·3 days agoholy shit that site
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1English7·3 days agoas part of Syllable it was absolutely an interesting nerd project “yeah let’s write a browser!!”
then fashtech funding knocked on the door, Kling put on his red baseball cap and took ladybird out on the road
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish9·3 days agoI predict Sam will lose big on the S&C claims. They have made fuckin bank on this bankruptcy, but also their fees have already been ruled entirely reasonable given the shitshow in question, and the near complete recovery for creditors will make them look even better.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•YouTube’s AI DJ interrupts your paid ad-free musicEnglish3·3 days agothe robot DJ from the pic mixin’ choons, that’s fine however
(i.e. the autoplay list)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish11·4 days agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453386
nobody mentioned this particular incident, dude just threw it into the discussion himself
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English3·9 days agolargely not available digitally, though someone’s putting together a Borsook reissue
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learnEnglish7·9 days agosurely this is a post about tech nazis, and not a post about how to argue language design features.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English3·10 days agoCyberselfish by Borsook, several books by Dery but particularly Escape Velocity
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English3·10 days agoMark Dery and Paulina Borsook nailed these fuckers square on in the '90s, but nobody reads books
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025English2·10 days agoit’s a shitty paper but even they couldn’t avoid the point forever
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish4·10 days agothe story of open source burnout for the past 20 years is that venture philanthropy was not a thing, quite the opposite
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Handmade Network, BSC and finding actual places to learnEnglish9·10 days ago“He comes from the Bay Area, being techfash is part of his culture”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Cloudflare bankrolls fascistsEnglish6·10 days agoamused to see even /r/hyprland thinks omarchy is dumb shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show itEnglish4·11 days agooh lol it’s even worse
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish8·15 days agocrikey. I assume the CV is in good order and kept updated on the job sites just to see what comes in.
the report uses the figure “82%” a lot for other things, I expect they summarised it with Copilot