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 ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·5 天前Not 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
2·5 天前whaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
9·11 天前getting 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
7·25 天前posting 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
8·29 天前gyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’English
6·1 个月前OpenAI 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
6·1 个月前they’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 ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5·1 个月前most popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·1 个月前are 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
4·1 个月前my 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
3·1 个月前oh 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
4·1 个月前I’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
5·1 个月前Yud: 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
2·1 个月前urgh. which pod host was it?
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•Random Positivity ThreadsEnglish
2·1 个月前ooh 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
6·1 个月前i am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
8·1 个月前you may want to read the rest of the comments
David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) OPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
9·1 个月前it’s the best, and i’m not just saying that cos i’m in it




















tante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute