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•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
2·5 天前the video push reeks of paid promotion
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
5·5 天前tante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·7 天前macro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·7 天前Not convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·7 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@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
9·13 天前getting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·27 天前posting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·28 天前what were the other two?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·1 个月前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@awful.systemsOPMto
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”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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@awful.systemsOPMto
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@awful.systemsOPMto
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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
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?




















if only there were links that answered the question