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.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English2·2 days ago
and a better personality with better opinions
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Gal Gadot Defends Starring in Bitcoin Movie With AI Sets and Lighting: "I am afraid of AI... you’re going to work with it"English3·2 days ago
defending the only work you can get
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th September 2026English5·2 days ago
it’s run by neoreactionaries
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoSneerClub@awful.systems•Irreplaceable.org is your new *professional* anti-AI org! oh, it's the Effective Altruists againEnglish7·2 days ago
oh boy are you in the right sub to hear about it
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoSneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English3·5 days ago
donor-advised funds
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish14·8 days ago
neovim is hearty fashtech now https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117167738907856218
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoSneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English9·8 days ago
the fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systemsEnglish4·11 days ago
where’s the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?
- David Gerard@awful.systemstoMoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish13·12 days ago
Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip
- David Gerard@awful.systemstoMoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish10·12 days ago
ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong
- David Gerard@awful.systemstoMoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish5·12 days ago
there’s this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.
- David Gerard@awful.systemstoMoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish4·12 days ago
yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.
- David Gerard@awful.systemstoMoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish8·12 days ago
I wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can’t find now, about the early history of Vox’s “explainers”. They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English2·12 days ago
Apache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME
- David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoSneerClub@awful.systems•bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEnglish12·12 days ago
fwiw, that HP cult doesn’t have a body count (that I know of)
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English9·16 days ago
countdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English6·16 days ago
I’m using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I’ve found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. “New recording” on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.
I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.
- David Gerard@awful.systemsMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English9·17 days ago
can we kick aella and her friends out of perversion
oh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025