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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/

  • US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination

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  • what were the other two?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026

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

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026

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  • muwahaha

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    Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/18/scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause/
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    AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/

  • ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’

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  • OpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying "these perform like trash mate"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026

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  • they're a fucking plage on the fedi right now, bots asking for masto accounts

    there's also a cryptocurrency, which may or may not actually be them

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    ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/16/chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-are-underwhelmed/

  • Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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  • most popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic

  • Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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  • are you sure you're tall enough for this ride

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026

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  • my first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics

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  • oh 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)

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  • I've been keeping extensive notes on these bozos but I don't quite have a story yet. Not even the US VCs are going big into "biocomputing". I'm trying to work out what the fuck Cortical Labs think they're on about.

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  • Yud: this is all because Dario is a commie

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  • urgh. which pod host was it?

  • What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

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  • i am assuming the fix is in, esp with the hit dog hollering response

  • Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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  • you may want to read the rest of the comments

  • Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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  • it's the best, and i'm not just saying that cos i'm in it

  • Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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  • psst you can see it on an Invidious instance that's set to a US backend

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    Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia’s circular financing

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/15/jensen-claims-100x-returns-on-nvidias-circular-financing/

  • What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

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  • specifically, me

  • What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

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  • this is an attempt at the camel's nose, in the standard AI playbook

  • What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

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  • it really does

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    Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)

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    AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/14/9023/
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    AGI Benchmarks: Eugenic Origins — by Valerie Veatch

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/09/11/agi-benchmarks-eugenic-origins-by-valerie-veatch/