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.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill usEnglish6·17 hours agoI’ve tested Gemini on this stuff. Sometimes it spots the syntax error and even suggests a more elegant rewrite. Sometimes it just completely shits itself.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!English4·2 days agoKai Lentit: Senior Engineer Uses vim Via Voice Control
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!English7·4 days agoAugmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don’t even have screens or projectors!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!English18·4 days agojust found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a productEnglish2·5 days agothe interesting thing is i looked and that isn’t actually a big enough market to sustain itself
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•General HPMoR sneer collectionEnglish7·5 days agoI should not be surprised that the author of HPRick and Morty also wrote SCP-8008.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open sourceEnglish9·6 days agoNikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram’s cryptography follows directly
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a productEnglish8·8 days agoa lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).
that’s the story, but this doesn’t work, like, at all, with just a moment’s thought.
if humanoid was a good shape we’d have humanoid robots already.
the reason is they’re selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•Kelsey Piper Decides DOGE Dipshits Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt In Long-Winded ThreadEnglish6·9 days agowhat the
no that isn’t a request to elaborate
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025English5·10 days agoThat’s Yudkowsky and Piper’s “glowfic”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025English20·10 days agothey’re a Thiel op
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.English3·11 days agoUPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semenEnglish8·12 days agobecause i know what you like
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semenEnglish11·12 days agoTrump apologetics doesn’t really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English5·12 days agoNeopets but it’s an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English3·12 days agoI’ve met Vinay, he’s great in person. But should not post.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English9·15 days agotoday’s least surprising news: substack’s coterie of totally-not-nazis fucking love AI https://on.substack.com/p/the-substack-ai-report
this guy actually lost a bundle in NFTs a few years ago