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•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
6·2 days agowhat were the other two?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·6 days agogyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’English
6·7 days agoOpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6·8 days agothey’re a fucking plage on the fedi right now, bots asking for masto accounts
there’s also a cryptocurrency, which may or may not actually be them
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5·9 days agomost popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·9 days agoare you sure you’re tall enough for this ride
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·9 days agomy first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
3·9 days agooh yeah i remember
I use zencastr for recording (works so far?) and never ever for hosting (I use libsyn for audio and youtube for video)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·9 days agoI’ve been keeping extensive notes on these bozos but I don’t quite have a story yet. Not even the US VCs are going big into “biocomputing”. I’m trying to work out what the fuck Cortical Labs think they’re on about.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
5·9 days agoYud: this is all because Dario is a commie
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
2·9 days agourgh. which pod host was it?
ooh the P series? those are beasts but there are some eBay bargains.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
6·9 days agoi am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
9·9 days agoyou may want to read the rest of the comments
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
10·9 days agoit’s the best, and i’m not just saying that cos i’m in it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
11·9 days agopsst you can see it on an Invidious instance that’s set to a US backend
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
9·10 days agospecifically, me
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
10·10 days agothis is an attempt at the camel’s nose, in the standard AI playbook





















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