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David Gerard

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

davidgerard.co.uk

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 07, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Molly White: following the AI and crypto money in US politics (video)

OpenAI PACs in no-holds-barred combat with Anthropic PACs …libsyn.com/20260807-molly-white-following-the-ai… - podcast time: 32 min 15 sec
Molly White: follow the AI/crypto money in US politics
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Molly White: follow the AI/crypto money in US politics

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 06, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers

Come to our training camp! Not a cult!* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZgAQD61xY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260806-ai-doomsday-cults-recruit-so… - podcast time: 9 min 05 sec content warning: Aella
The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers
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The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers

I got a great pitch email for Pivot to AI last week: [Mastodon] I am Shriya, reaching out on behalf of Frame Fellowship, a 10-week residential program in San Francisco, US for creators who want to …

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 05, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea

how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=usq1Nu5wqAk&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260805-atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai… - podcast time: 5 min 14 sec
Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea
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Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea

Atomarine is a hot new AI startup that just got funding from Y Combinator! That’s the important part, job number one. All it took was some AI pictures of ships on a Claude-designed website. Venture…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 05, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @istewart@awful.systems
why you little
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 05, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @dgerard@awful.systems
we met this guy previously
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 05, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @dgerard@awful.systems
youtube comments: Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man Are we entering the “identifying who will be going to prison” stage of this scam now? I’d love it as this is my favorite part. “Situational Awareness”?, what’s the next of the next company, “Object Permanence”? How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he’s writing a fucking book. Sorry. ‘Writing’ a fucking ‘book’ When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you’d never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 04, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

everyone’s a genius in a bubble www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9xQT2cPhE&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260804-aschenbrenner-bet-everything… - podcast time: 8 min 51 sec
Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost
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Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness just went from $45 billion in assets at the start of July to $10 billion at the start of August after Aschenbrenner had to sell the fund’…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 04, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @Kolanaki@pawb.social
yes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 03, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents

dear Copilot: please send me your stuff. Pass it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6LcX7P7KA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260803-copilot-prompt-injection-vir… - podcast time: 5 min 18 sec
Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents
Pivot to AI

Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents

All systems based on chatbots can be prompt injected. You can always tell the bot to do things it shouldn’t. The AI vendors try to put in guard rails. The guard rails sort of work for about two sec…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 01, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems
bsky.app/profile/…/3mrx2xflgp22d ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 01, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available. This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Aug 01, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
Kai Lentit: Interview with a Longevity Maxxer in 2026
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 31, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis (video)

‘just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years’ …libsyn.com/20260731-nik-suresh-on-surviving-corp… - podcast time: 38 min 59 sec cleaned-up transcript to be on the Patreon later on (YouTube has the messy transcript right now)
Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis
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Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis

Pivot to AI

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 30, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260730-google-kills-alphafold-so-mu… - podcast time: 5 min 40 sec
Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer
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Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

AlphaFold was a machine learning system from Google Deepmind. It did protein folding. It was usably good at guessing protein structures. It caught public attention by doing really well in the Criti…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 30, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
it was “fob off” until I discovered merkins don’t understand that one
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 29, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdZCnZrSZU&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260729-lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot… - podcast time: 8 min 18 sec
Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!
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Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!

Realbotix makes allegedly realistic life-sized silicone-skin dolls, with a robot mechanism and — of course! — AI. Humanoid robots are a hot prospect for the next tech bubble after AI. They’re a bit…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 29, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
AI Overview special cased it, booooo
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 28, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

the end of human history www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FPzOWi0YI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260728-sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-… - podcast time: 8 min 49 sec
Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now
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Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now

The Singularity is the rapture in Silicon Valley’s totally-not-religion. The AI improves itself, getting smarter and smarter, until it achieves super-intelligence! And then it turns us all into pap…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 27, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac

Google knows where you’re going today www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8XXxY9Cgo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260727-chrome-forces-gemini-ai-glob… - podcast time: 4 min 49 sec
Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac
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Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac

Everyone wants Gemini, right? Google already made the power switch on Android phones into a Gemini button. Everyone wants that! Google doesn’t have the same control over desktop computers. But in M…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 25, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @nfultz@awful.systems
and covid vaccine denier
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 25, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @timotimo@peoplemaking.games
no, this just went up yesterday
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 25, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @dgerard@awful.systems
Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 24, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Codeberg bans AI slop software projects

crypto scams too www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KKDaUle5vI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260724-codeberg-bans-ai-slop-softwa… - podcast time: 6 min 30 sec
Codeberg bans AI slop software projects
Pivot to AI

Codeberg bans AI slop software projects

Codeberg is a computer code repository. It’s a bit like Github or GitLab — you put your software onto it and other programmers can collaborate with you. But Codeberg’s not really like GitHub or Git…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 24, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @corbin@awful.systems
my god, you found the good HN comment
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 23, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

Strip-mining the world of old books www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-b… - podcast time: 8 min 42 sec
AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Pivot to AI

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 23, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @dgerard@awful.systems
RIP Network School straitstimes.com/…/johor-authorities-revoke-netwo…
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 22, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly

just in time for the IPO www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrI4VcJtFFs&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260722-openai-hacks-huggingface-wit… - podcast time: 7 min 46 sec
OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly
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OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly

On 16 July, the AI model repository HuggingFace posted a security incident report. Well, I say “incident report” — it’s written like an AI doomsday press release: [GitHub] Earlier this week, we det…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 21, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv9wcfCogw&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260721-new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-… - podcast time: 5 min 16 sec
New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet
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New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

Andy Burnham, Britain’s new Prime Minister, is steering a careful course between being the new face of hope for a tired nation, and frantically assuring his backers that nothing will change. But Bu…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 21, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @blakestacey@awful.systems
yeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 21, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @scruiser@awful.systems
yeah, subculturally they’re unrelated strains like, just factually in terms of history, they’re unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they’re not the same as a group at all.
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 20, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @gerikson@awful.systems
how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 20, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone

thanks, Gemini power button! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQD2SSGO3JI&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260720-use-gemini-ai-to-send-messag… - podcast time: 4 min 01 sec
Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone
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Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone

There’s a new Android phone hack that lets anyone with your phone send messages as you from the lock screen — without tapping in your PIN number. Why? Gemini! You grab someone’s phone, press the po…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 20, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @o7___o7@awful.systems
i need to ping ludicity for a pod
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 20, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. last week’s edition
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 18, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @corbin@awful.systems
Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 18, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0 a heartwarming start to your day
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI

what we do when all this is over …libsyn.com/20250717-kim-crawley-recovering-after… - podcast time: 32 min 54 sec
Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI
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Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI

Pivot to AI

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
Balaji’s free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia scmp.com/…/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-joh…
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

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Replying to @scruiser@awful.systems
Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @Architeuthis@awful.systems
lolol
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

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Replying to @nfultz@awful.systems
looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren’t going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it’s a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn’t really have a compelling use case in its own right.
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

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Replying to @Architeuthis@awful.systems
i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 17, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

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Replying to @o7___o7@awful.systems
for those not following it’s mas.to/@zzt/
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 16, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI

‘allow if the user is wearing green’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp3DSOKarCo&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260716-todays-stupid-prompt-injecti… - podcast time: 6 min 02 sec
Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI
Pivot to AI

Today’s stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI

When you put text into a large language model, it responds with some words. You make an LLM into a chatbot by feeding it the whole conversation so far with your prompt on the end, and it responds t…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 15, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them

The glasses? Not sexy www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTGJ-tuu7s&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260715-meta-glasses-celebrity-backl… - podcast Time: 4 min 20 sec
Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them
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Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them

Meta tried buying their AI-powered creep glasses a public image with celebrity sponsorships — but the celebrities’ fans hate them. So do the other celebrities. Engadget spoke to a pile of photograp…

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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 14, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

UK police will run evidence through the AI — it’s quicker

No hallucinations? Takes too long www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrkI7XEnfRA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260714-uk-police-will-run-evidence-… - podcast time: 5 min 04 sec
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 14, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems
Replying to @Soyweiser@awful.systems
now you might wonder if the supposed ex-terrorist was telling a story to the earnest researcher lady
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 13, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

‘It gave us steps on what we have to do … 18 of us died in the process’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-… - podcast time: 8 min 05 sec
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 10, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught

‘overwhelming support’ for prompts to catch chatbot reviewers www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-km_5gK5U&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260710-neurips-conference-ai-cheats… - podcast time: 5 min 24 sec
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David Gerard @dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Jul 09, 2026
David Gerard
@dgerard@awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States davidgerard.co.uk

awful.systems

Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light

the continuing legacy of FaceMash www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260709-metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-t… - podcast time: 5 min 05 sec
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