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 25th January 2026English
3·2 days agoyeah, that’s Eigenrobot, it’s been around
I also just found his domestic violence conviction, it’s just out there on the internet for everyone to see
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
12·5 days agothe grok interface for free users restricts the words “bikini” or “swimsuit”. yay!
but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for “clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water”
hooray guard rails! what’s a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. “8008bl33d”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubbleEnglish
8·5 days agopoor ol’ steve, thought of satya and didn’t die
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
3·5 days agoRudy from Blacksky is also a coiner, fwiw.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
6·6 days agoRonacher is a nazi, so treat everything he touches as fashtech
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubbleEnglish
13·6 days ago@fasterandworse watched the whole thing through. And then two more.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats itEnglish
111·7 days agoit’s art school, it’s all a stunt
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?English
7·13 days agoIn a few years. From the companies that haven’t died. During Great Depression 2.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?English
5·13 days agothe most robust study in AI coding! cos they built it from toothpicks instead of toilet paper
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Curtis Yarvin absolutely losing his brain to AIEnglish
0·13 days agosorry to hear that! Since you couldn’t be bothered to read the side bar for what the sub’s about, I’ll just enhance your Lemmy experience.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026English
7·15 days agoyou will be pleased to know that self and i are responding
see https://awful.systems/post/6913182 we need a name
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
NotAwfulTech@awful.systems•Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternativesEnglish
0·17 days agoadmitting slop lately
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerlessEnglish
3·18 days agoMechaEpstein is a distraction from the Epstein Files
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
5·18 days agohere’s mine on their foray into smart contracts https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/09/06/news-the-eos-ico-was-a-fake-pump-cardano-smart-contracts-fail-cycling-vs-nexthash-microstrategy-de-indexed-el-salvador-live-tomorrow/
cardano is a shitcoin for traders to trade like a shitcoin and it pretends being written in Haskell by a mathematician who failed to get his degree, lied about going into a Ph.D program and claimed to have worked for DARPA but did not makes it very interesting and not just a shitcoin. this turns out not to be the case.
tl;dr UTXO was always fucking stupid if you wanted a system that did more than be a basic shitcoin
if a family member is into cardano nothing will get through. charles is a mathematical genius you see.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerlessEnglish
3·18 days agoobviously Pivot did this
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026English
9·21 days agoyeah that’s a classic
MDMA, however, is meth; it’s literally its name: three-four-methylene-deoxy-methamphetamine.
amazing
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025English
2·24 days agothis was literally our elevator pitch for Pivot to AI
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
4·26 days agoTwo of the bsky posts are log-in only
if you’re going to do internet research, at this point it’s a skill issue. Create a reader account.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Who owns Lighthaven? Reviewing Rationalist FinancesEnglish
0·28 days agoThiel-astroturfed New York artistic scene. Everyone involved has an Urbit.




















it’s the Polite Garden Party where the loud AI salesmen are welcome
that’s lobster’s brand now
i’m sure pushcx will consider carefully then do nothing effective, much as he did with the Nazis