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David Gerard

@dgerard@awful.systems
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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

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

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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 1d ago

Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

Long Island Iced AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEzV1m1DKbA&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260416-shoe-company-pivots-to-ai-st… - podcast time: 5 min 52 sec
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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%
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Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

Once upon a time there was a shoe company called Allbirds. They made wool sneakers that the Silicon Valley set loved in the late 2010s. The company went public on the stock market in 2021. But the …

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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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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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 2d ago

Maine bans new data centres until November 2027

don’t be left behind! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX58cf5asAE&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260415-maine-bans-new-data-centres-… - podcast time: 4 min 20 sec
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Maine bans new data centres until November 2027
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Maine bans new data centres until November 2027

Maine has passed a state-wide ban on new data centres over 20 megawatts until November 2027. [Maine State Legislature, PDF; The Hill] There aren’t a lot of data centres in Maine — but developers re…

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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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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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 3d ago

Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

It’s a new paradigm! Don’t be left behind! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRL0Nc2ZsVU&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260414-neural-computing-your-boss-t… - podcast time: 6 min 28 sec
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Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC
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Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

Today’s preprint is “Neural Computers” from Meta and KAUST. This proposes a fabulous new computing paradigm — where an AI does all the work of a computer! You just tell the bot to do computery thin…

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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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David Gerard
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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 4d ago
that looks like a heaping pile of correlation, without mentioning the general downturn
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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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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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 4d ago
the worst kind of violence, the sort against people like me all those other deaths? those aren’t violence
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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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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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 4d ago
youtube comments and i’m getting the bangers again If you are number one enemy of the nerds that are afraid of the etch-a-sketch, does that make you the most powerful etch-a-sketch? The accounting of these companies must also be too dangerous to release or something. At the mention of Butlerian Jihad I cringed so hard I became a quantum singularity (I got better)
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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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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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · 4d ago

AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7KI5jON_c&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20260413-ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-m… - podcast time: 11 min 58 sec
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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

Early on Friday morning, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at  OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s house in San Francisco! It bounced off the house and set a front gate on fire. Police would like to talk to…

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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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David Gerard
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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@dgerard@awful.systems in sneerclub · Jan 14, 2026

Curtis Yarvin absolutely losing his brain to AI

originally on reddit sneerclub, but reddit didn’t like links to Yarvin’s substack archive: archive.is/olhGc dead dove, approach with care before eating
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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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David Gerard
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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@dgerard@awful.systems in techtakes · Dec 03, 2025

Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk

‘built for user trust’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m3zjpTOcY&list=UU9rJrMV… - video …libsyn.com/20251203-googles-antigravity-ai-vibe-… - podcast time: 5 min 57 sec
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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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David Gerard
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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@dgerard@awful.systems · Nov 19, 2025
yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.
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