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 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
13·5 days agoneovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
9·5 days agothe fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish
4·9 days agowhere’s the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
13·9 days agoEzra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
10·9 days agoah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
5·9 days agothere’s this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
4·9 days agoyeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
8·9 days agoI wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can’t find now, about the early history of Vox’s “explainers”. They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
2·9 days agoApache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEnglish
12·9 days agofwiw, that HP cult doesn’t have a body count (that I know of)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·14 days agocountdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
6·14 days agoI’m using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I’ve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. “New recording” on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.
I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·14 days agocan we kick aella and her friends out of perversion
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
4·14 days agoyeah. The word-choice watermarking is an interesting trick for a paper, needs quite a chunk of text, will have a ghastly rate of both false positives and false negatives in real world fraud detection, and is evidently good enough for Gemini not to drink too much its own piss but not much else.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
2·15 days agonow awaiting the Daria crossover
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
5·16 days agoWorm x blockchain fanfic
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over thisEnglish
2·17 days agooh it’s worse, people send me this shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
6·17 days agoShort punchy writing? GO SHORTER.



















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