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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what did that have to do with AI or ML?
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TechTakes•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
2·10 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
tante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
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TechTakes•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·12 days agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
Not convinced that makes any substantive difference.
whaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
getting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
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TechTakes•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·1 month agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
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TechTakes•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·1 month agowhat were the other two?
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TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·1 month agogyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
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TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6·1 month agomuwahaha
OpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”
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TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6·1 month agothey’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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TechTakes•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5·1 month agomost popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
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TechTakes•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·1 month agoare you sure you’re tall enough for this ride
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·1 month agomy first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
3·1 month agooh 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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TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·1 month agoI’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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TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
5·1 month agoYud: this is all because Dario is a commie




















if only there were links that answered the question