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•Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it publicEnglish
0·1 day agoI’m told it’s good for satellite internet, if you only have satellite internet.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
0·4 days agodoes no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator
at least its posts were shorter
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scamEnglish
0·9 days agoit’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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
0·10 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
0·13 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
0·14 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
0·14 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
0·14 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
0·14 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
0·16 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
0·21 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
0·21 days agothe most robust study in AI coding! cos they built it from toothpicks instead of toilet paper
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026English
0·23 days agoyou will be pleased to know that self and i are responding, about to post
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerlessEnglish
0·26 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
0·26 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.
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
0·26 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
0·29 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
0·1 month 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
0·1 month 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.

I outlined it here a bit. Basically there’s a lot of Wall St fuck fuck games - AI is just one of them - that’s a tottering heap of dollar-denominated accounting entries for lies and trash. But also, the institutions have been white anted. Trump’s pick for the next Fed chair is a bitcoiner who espouses Austrian economics - that is, literally the same gold standard economics that made Great Depression 1 worse.