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.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English5·2 days agothis URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025
the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news
i expect this one to be more of the same
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English4·2 days agorealy, who doesn’t want to fuck Clippy
(looks around nervously)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English9·2 days agoWe don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF
at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don’t have them there eithe
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English7·2 days agoDonald Trump, so yeah
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]English12·3 days agoI’m not really an accelerationist, but I’ll make an exception for this
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English6·4 days agochrist. can’t he go back to disco, he was good at that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English8·4 days agoCOMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’English5·5 days agoyou saw nothing
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!English2·7 days agoI understand this post is technically illegal in the US
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.English8·7 days agothis user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)English2·9 days agoholy shit
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto Buttcoin@awful.systems•U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto ExperimentEnglish5·10 days agoMaxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she’s not in power any more but she can help jam this up
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English6·11 days agowhen you say “made it”, i think FUCKING ROOSE
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English9·11 days agothat’s CFAR cult jargon right?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English9·11 days agoapparently a complete archive of scott siskind’s old livejournal. found on the EA forum no less. https://archive.fo/fCFQx
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•LLMs average <5% on 2025 Math Olympiad; award each other 20x pointsEnglish14·11 days agothe user who cannot read has been guided to go not read elsewhere
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff TerathreadEnglish3·11 days agoit’s all fallout from the tariffs yeah
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025English5·11 days agostill holds - it’s still a bunch that needs a label and that’s the label
even as TREACLES was right there
(i asked emile, they said it was TESCREAL is very searchable. i mean fine)
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Yet another rant about the state of the modern webEnglish9·11 days agoThe commenter has been directed elsewhere.
originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!