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.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
5Ā·21 hours agomuwahaha
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢ChatGPT ads: media agencies are āunderwhelmedāEnglish
6Ā·2 days agoOpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying āthese perform like trash mateā
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6Ā·2 days agotheyāre a fucking plage on the fedi right now, bots asking for masto accounts
thereās also a cryptocurrency, which may or may not actually be them
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5Ā·3 days agomost popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3Ā·3 days agoare you sure youāre tall enough for this ride
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4Ā·3 days agomy first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
3Ā·3 days agooh 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.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4Ā·3 days agoIāve been keeping extensive notes on these bozos but I donāt quite have a story yet. Not even the US VCs are going big into ābiocomputingā. Iām trying to work out what the fuck Cortical Labs think theyāre on about.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
5Ā·3 days agoYud: this is all because Dario is a commie
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
2Ā·3 days agourgh. which pod host was it?
ooh the P series? those are beasts but there are some eBay bargains.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
6Ā·3 days agoi am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
8Ā·3 days agoyou may want to read the rest of the comments
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
9Ā·3 days agoitās the best, and iām not just saying that cos iām in it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
11Ā·4 days agopsst you can see it on an Invidious instance thatās set to a US backend
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
10Ā·4 days agospecifically, me
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
9Ā·4 days agothis is an attempt at the camelās nose, in the standard AI playbook
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDEEnglish
8Ā·4 days agoit really does
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
14Ā·4 days agoif youāre in the US and have too much time on your hands, the comments on this one need attention, cos PBS leave comments on then just donāt moderate them.
please do stop by in ānew commentsā mode and upvote the good top-level comments, downvote the bad, and report the racists and straight up Nazis.
the upvotes/downvotes determine the default āTop commentsā view, and it takes multiple reports for any given racist






















gyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you