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•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
16·1 day agoThe cabal has gone “yeah fuck this” and succumbed to exhaustion https://awful.systems/post/8294148
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
15·2 days agoi want to speak to the manager of storytelling
(found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l)

David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%English
3·2 days agothat correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.
ohhh lol holy shit, that’d be a fine thread to pull on
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
6·2 days agoThat’s the neat part, you don’t!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
4·3 days agobizarre. Magic Dirt was an Australian indie rock band in the 90s.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
8·3 days ago“That’s as good as money, sir. These are tokens.”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
5·4 days agosomeone i recently fucked for the second time
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
5·4 days agoI spent January 1990 I think? reading all of Analog/Astounding from about 1959 to 1975. (It was 40 deg C all month and I stayed in with my aircon.) I loved that stuff from anthologies of the best of it, and I can assure you the original mags are extremely much the 90%.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’English
5·7 days agothe youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’English
5·7 days agoYou can’t stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
6·8 days agothe guy’s a bit of an infosec mall ninja, so reread anything he claims in the calmest possible way
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
11·8 days agowe’re still sending the occasional carrier pigeon and I can assure you he’s COPING JUST FINE REALLY JUST FINE
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
29·8 days agoSTATE OF THE SNEER
- our esteemed admin @self is offline because his fibre got cut
- the esteemed engineers of the telco are currently sucking their teeth and forecasting a fix date this millennium
- in the meantime he’s living off data SIMs and he is offline for most fun purposes
- Blake and I are still here waving the mod hammer in a menacing manner
- I have ssh to the server and can thump lemmy-ui as needed
- all is well citizen! Glory to Awful! Hooray for Big Basilisk!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injectionEnglish
4·9 days ago“$177,000” in hypothetical mark to market value, so yeah aobut $10 in practice if that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
9·12 days agoCremieux and Siskind prions.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
11·12 days agoanthropic has large gametes
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
2·13 days agoit’s like no no we’re not ALL basilisk believers
fuckers ANY of you are
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026English
5·13 days agoyeah, complaints about Ed’s tone tend to be in direct proportion to how many numbers he’s brought (and peppered with “fuck”)




















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