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 28th June 2026English
7·2 days agoAlsup put this as a point in Anthropic’s favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it’s received wisdom.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)English
2·2 days agothis was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·6 days agothat’s right, NFTs
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
3·6 days agoNo blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language “Verse” for “metaverse”.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
4·7 days agoI checked the image which says December last year.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads themEnglish
4·8 days agoyou’re talking like you don’t want another fifty match-3 games
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
4·16 days agoBecause after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
71·20 days agothey too slurp at the slop sewer
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
272·21 days agoevery vibe coder insists they’re shooting up krokodil responsibly
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
213·21 days agoI commend to you jonny’s thread on the tests:
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116666900898570791
It keeps turning out that when you look at the AI output, it’s shit.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
122·21 days agowow that guy really went for it huh
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsEnglish
2413·21 days agoIt literally is slop. It’s always correct to call slop slop.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web pageEnglish
2·22 days agothis is what i like to hear!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
13·26 days agothat EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD FUCKING USES
it’s one of the tiny bricks way down the xkcd diagram
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
15·26 days agoby “culture wars” she means she’s a fucking nazi
This was the reason Wendy Hanamura cited when she canceled my invitation to speak at the Internet Archive.
hmm, looking at the text you link it says “your past statements in Twitter” first. could it be they found out you’re a fucking nazi
also you’re shocked, shocked to find that 4chan people are assholes. you hang out there for hours at a time. probably just coincidence.
Tunney has deleted the post already! But there’s an archive and another one
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026English
5·28 days agoHe does, but also that piece is based on talking to the WMF employees, who he knows, and multiple of said employees have forwarded the piece to me.
It checks out as a good source.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026English
15·1 month agoSTOP FINDING THINGS
- WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
- YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
- Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA “RANDOM PAGE”
- “Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS and A PARAGRAPH OF SLOP FIRST” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them
(This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)
- “None of Africa’s 54 recognized countries start with the letter ‘K’.”
- “Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce”
- “Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need.”
“Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn’t generated”
They have played us for absolute fools




















AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW
fuck