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•Tech stocks crash — and so do data center loansEnglish
0·3 days agoI read the rest of their comments and am pretty sure the chance of this is 0
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Buttcoin@awful.systems•The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cultEnglish
0·3 days agoit’s “On information and belief”, so he told someone else who told her.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Elon Musk admits Grok Bot costs too much to serveEnglish
0·9 days agofiiixed thank you
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
0·10 days agothe way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
0·10 days agothis is like the guys on mastodon who mention libreoffice at every opportunity
do you honestly think anyone reading this post hasn’t heard of duckduckgo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going slopEnglish
0·14 days agotell me you didn’t read without saying you didn’t read
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-upEnglish
0·25 days agoif only there were links that answered the question
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TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
0·29 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
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TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
0·29 days agotante 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@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
0·1 month agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
0·1 month agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
0·1 month agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
0·1 month agogetting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
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SneerClub@awful.systems•rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.English
0·3 months agothe fuckin make a wish foundation is more effective than EA
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·3 months agoEzra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·3 months agoah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·3 months agothere’s this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·3 months agoyeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·3 months agoI wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can’t find now, about the early history of Vox’s “explainers”. They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.



















cool in the sense of nerdsniping, not in the sense of being in any way a good idea