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 19th April 2026English
3·7 days agothat looks like a heaping pile of correlation, without mentioning the general downturn
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026English
11·7 days agothe worst kind of violence, the sort against people like me
all those other deaths? those aren’t violence
we also need to care more about property
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s houseEnglish
10·7 days agoyoutube comments and i’m getting the bangers again
If you are number one enemy of the nerds that are afraid of the etch-a-sketch, does that make you the most powerful etch-a-sketch?
The accounting of these companies must also be too dangerous to release or something.
At the mention of Butlerian Jihad I cringed so hard I became a quantum singularity (I got better)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026English
11·8 days agowriting this up for today, will be mentioning Ziz
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! AllegedlyEnglish
2·8 days agoper run
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crankEnglish
4·13 days agowell that shows it’s aligned to the flourishing of humanity
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026English
2·17 days agoAO3 this immediately
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•New Round of Criti-Hype Propaganda Drops Next WeekEnglish
1·17 days agoyeah this is the bad one. The good one is Ghost In The Machine.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that?English
2·18 days agoincluding Sam
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Claude Code codebase is leakedEnglish
7·18 days agojonny’s thread is sheer awesome
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requestsEnglish
4·19 days agoSo MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal offEnglish
26·26 days agoa Mickey Mouse camera, obviously
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Companies go full AI — then the bill comes dueEnglish
5·26 days agoyesterdays’ news just in, no we won’t
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026English
2·26 days agoCovered one attempt already!
https://awful.systems/post/7387786
Trouble is the sort of investment that’s uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
13·1 month agoif you use Rust enough it just grows like that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
22·1 month agofig. 1: @self hard at work keeping awful systems up and running

from Unix World 1985. enterprise computing was so much more fun in those days
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026English
2·1 month agoBut along the way, he found a way to take estrogen wrong
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase)English
9·1 month agoand somehow I’m declared enemy #1



















finally played this, nice, do feel free to let your muse lure you into a proper episode. Also liked the nice bleeps.