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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yep, it’s “us too!” on those
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·2 天前worse yet, Amazon actually has uses for that much data centre
David GerardOPMAto
SneerClub•Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch **Guardian Angel Inc** and bring GAs to life.English
3·6 天前well, somewhat. about as readable.
this should really be sneerclub i guess, pretend i put it there too
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th August 2026English
4·9 天前why you little
youtube comments:
Couldnt happen to a nicer slender man
Are we entering the “identifying who will be going to prison” stage of this scam now? I’d love it as this is my favorite part.
“Situational Awareness”?, what’s the next of the next company, “Object Permanence”?
How on earth could that kid walk and talk without forgetting to breathe. I assume he’s writing a fucking book. Sorry. ‘Writing’ a fucking ‘book’
When I was 24, guys like that were just that weirdo from school who you met once on the street in Dublin and asked him what he was up to and he told you he was working somewhere you’d never heard of and you never heard of him again. Now these gobshites are in charge of serious things and serious money, as well as being famous.
yes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005
Mitchell, you’ve been around rationalism long enough.
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global InequalityEnglish
1·13 天前what’s good about this article to be worth posting?
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
12·13 天前https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mm5ebihpjvtrdunomulbls5m/post/3mrx2xflgp22d
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
David GerardMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
9·13 天前Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available.
This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.
David GerardOPMAto
TechTakes•Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids!English
5·15 天前it was “fob off” until I discovered merkins don’t understand that one
AI Overview special cased it, booooo
David GerardOPMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
6·19 天前and covid vaccine denier
David GerardOPMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
3·19 天前no, this just went up yesterday
David GerardOPMAto
TechTakes•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
163·20 天前Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002



















lisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long
so in that sense it’s in character