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•Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AIEnglish
11·4 days agoThis appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for “Ecosia” and cut’n’paste some text you had to hand?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
6·10 days agoSon speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggsEnglish
5·10 days agoSoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
4·14 days agoAHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW
fuck
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026English
8·14 days agoAlsup put this as a point in Anthropic’s favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it’s received wisdom.
don’t forget the whole youtube series it’s the latest entry in!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)English
2·14 days agothis was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·18 days agothat’s right, NFTs
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·18 days agoNo blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language “Verse” for “metaverse”.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•DCA is just rebranding for chasing losses.English
0·19 days agothe way bitcoiners do it is dumbass brain damage however
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
4·20 days agoI checked the image which says December last year.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads themEnglish
4·21 days agoyou’re talking like you don’t want another fifty match-3 games
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movementEnglish
0·21 days agoMoskovitz is the biggest name in Abundance
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
4·29 days agoBecause after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
71·1 month agothey too slurp at the slop sewer
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
272·1 month agoevery vibe coder insists they’re shooting up krokodil responsibly
I’ve started going to the movies with the kid - they like psychological horror, video game or internet style, and their mum hates that shit. But I’m a fan of it. So we saw Backrooms on Monday. https://rocknerd.co.uk/2026/06/03/backrooms-2026/






















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