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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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
6·4 days agothe way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
4·23 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·25 days agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·25 days agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
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SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
9·1 month agogetting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·2 months agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·2 months agogyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
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TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’English
6·2 months agoOpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6·2 months 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
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5·2 months agomost popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·2 months agoare you sure you’re tall enough for this ride
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·2 months agomy first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
3·2 months 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)
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·2 months 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.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
5·2 months agoYud: this is all because Dario is a commie
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
2·2 months agourgh. which pod host was it?
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•Random Positivity ThreadsEnglish
2·2 months agoooh the P series? those are beasts but there are some eBay bargains.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
6·2 months agoi am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response






















fiiixed thank you