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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/

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • GitHub Platform availability dips to 87.25%, averages 1.04 incidents/day

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  • not even making eight eights

  • Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks

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  • The six fingers is on the pic of the teacher in the Spiegel article.

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    Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/28/tokenmaxxing-how-much-did-you-spend-in-tokens-ceo-of-tokens/
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    Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/27/kohl-verlags-new-line-of-ai-slop-school-textbooks/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026

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  • explicit in "State of the Art":

    It was about a week later, when I was due to go back on-planet, to Berlin, when the ship wanted to talk to me again. Things were going on as usual; the Arbitrary spent its time making detailed maps of everything within sight and without, dodging American and Soviet satellites and manufacturing and then sending down to the planet hundreds upon thousands of bugs to watch printing works and magazine stalls and libraries, to scan museums, workshops, studios and shops, to look into windows, gardens and forests, and to track buses, trains, cars, seaships and planes. Meanwhile its effectors, and those on its main satellites, probed every computer, monitored every landline, tapped every microwave link, and listened to every radio transmission on Earth.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • There is enough of this shit that appeasement has no reason except making well meaning moderate centrists more comfortable, and they were never the audience. (despite their unshakable conviction they are the only audience.) dr. fatima's video is good advice on comforting the comforted and nothing else.

    i commend to you my masto post with the more detailed version, and the responses thereto, e.g.

    the world we live in where the golang stdlib cryptography maintainer doesn't know how to use ffmpeg and can't be fucked to learn and so instead relies on slop

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • [lament about ill effect of AI, here's why it's terrible]

    I use AI sparingly for

    this is critihype

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    Project Lobster: Microsoft brings Copilot AI to OpenClaw

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/24/project-lobster-microsoft-brings-copilot-ai-to-openclaw/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • some of us just nail the existential risk

  • Why do many rationalists like cryptocurrency?

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  • really because they come from the same Californian Ideology roots

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026

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  • while it's technically plausible that Ziz was involved in a minor oopsy whoopsy fucky wucky deady weady or two or six, she's always been lovely to me, much of the time,

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  • Emile Torres and me, rationalist enemies list #3 and #1. a photo to strike fear into the utility functions of rationalists everywhere

    https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116456408676175449

    pic by my kid and from the premiere of Ghost in the Machine, an awesome documentary. I'm in it. tl;dr AI was always olde timey race science all the way down

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    Claude Code rate limits: Anthropic AI squeezes the customers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/23/claude-code-rate-limits-anthropic-ai-squeezes-the-customers/
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    Oh no! The President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus is in trouble

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/22/oh-no-the-president-donald-j-trump-advanced-energy-and-intelligence-campus-is-in-trouble/
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    Gudtrip: the AI agent vape pen with blockchain

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/21/gudtrip-the-ai-agent-vape-pen-with-blockchain/

  • Russia demands a sovereign AI

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  • I can't confirm it at all, but I read somewhere that at least some of Max's actual servers are in the UK too o_0

  • Russia demands a sovereign AI

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  • I'm wondering the extent to which Max is a thing. They force it onto all phones so it claims a huge userbase, but all the numbers are PR numbers.

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    Russia demands a sovereign AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/20/russia-demands-a-sovereign-ai/
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    The two cows of fintech

    davidgerard.co.uk /blockchain/2026/04/18/the-two-cows-of-fintech/
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    Habryka: the Trail of Tears was good and moral akhully

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/w3MJcDueo77D3Ldta/let-goodness-conquer-all-that-it-can-defend
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    Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/17/objection-ai-venture-capital-tries-to-block-bad-press/
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    Shoe company Allbirds pivots to AI — and the stock goes up 580%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/16/shoe-company-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-and-the-stock-goes-up-580/
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    Maine bans new data centres until November 2027

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/15/maine-bans-new-data-centres-until-november-2027/
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    Neural Computing: your boss thinks the AI will become a PC

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • that looks like a heaping pile of correlation, without mentioning the general downturn

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • the worst kind of violence, the sort against people like me

    all those other deaths? those aren't violence

    we also need to care more about property

  • AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

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  • 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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    AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/13/ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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  • writing this up for today, will be mentioning Ziz

  • Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly

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  • per run

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    OpenAI pulls out of Stargate UK data centre

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/10/openai-pulls-out-of-stargate-uk-data-centre/
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    Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/09/claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly/
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    OpenAI IPO proceeds — even as CFO says the company is ‘not ready’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/08/openai-ipo-proceeds-even-as-cfo-says-the-company-is-not-ready/
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    Associated Press dumps journalists for AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/07/associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai/

  • Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank

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  • well that shows it's aligned to the flourishing of humanity

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    Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/03/nobody-wants-openai-shares-on-the-secondary-market/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026

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  • AO3 this immediately

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    Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/02/microsoft-ai-reshuffle-mustafa-suleyman-goes-ai-doomsday-crank/