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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

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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  • No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

  • Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI

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  • This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for "Ecosia" and cut'n'paste some text you had to hand?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Son speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.

  • SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs

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  • SoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.

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    SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/
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    Office workers are spending way too much on AI too

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/25/office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too/
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    Meta keylogs staff typing for AI training — then leaks it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/24/meta-keylogs-staff-typing-for-ai-training-then-leaks-it/
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    "good epistemics": the rationalist dog whistle for /ourguys/

    hollyelmore.substack.com /p/fuck-the-epistemics

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW

    fuck

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    UK press can opt out of AI overviews, stay in search results

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/23/uk-press-can-opt-out-of-ai-overviews-stay-in-search-results/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic's favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it's received wisdom.

  • Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link)

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  • this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

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    Religious exemption from using the AI at work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/22/religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work/
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    Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/19/midjourney-ai-pivots-to-theranos-ultrasonic-ct/

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • that's right, NFTs

  • Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

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  • No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language "Verse" for "metaverse".

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    Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/

  • DCA is just rebranding for chasing losses.

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  • the way bitcoiners do it is dumbass brain damage however

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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    SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/17/searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • I checked the image which says December last year.

  • We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

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  • you're talking like you don't want another fifty match-3 games

  • our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movement

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  • Moskovitz is the biggest name in Abundance

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Because after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • they too slurp at the slop sewer

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • every vibe coder insists they're shooting up krokodil responsibly

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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