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•The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is offEnglish
0·23 hours agoOn the other hand, Nvidia is doing some very questionable circular looking deals.
On the other other hand, Jensen knows precisely how to surf a bubble while it’s bubbling, he’s done it before. When you do stupid shit and the number goes up, shareholders don’t have a lot to get aggrieved about.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
0·2 days agoThe bit where OpenAi and Anthropic need actual real dollars to set on fire.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
0·2 days agoBut why are we talking about some AI agent platform in the Urbit newsletter? Naturally because we think, Urbit fixes this.
As a matter of fact, Tlon is already working on this with their Openclaw Plugin for Tlon Messenger. It is currently in an early adopter phase, but they expect to provide an instance of Openclaw with every ship that they host for their users.
but of course
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
0·2 days agoI get the worst bottom of the barrel AI ads on the YouTube. At least the viewers find them hilarious.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
0·3 days agoI used to be young and pretty, now I’m old and well preserved
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
0·3 days agoI expect we could rant for hours without drawing breath
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2English
0·3 days agoI outlined it here a bit. Basically there’s a lot of Wall St fuck fuck games - AI is just one of them - that’s a tottering heap of dollar-denominated accounting entries for lies and trash. But also, the institutions have been white anted. Trump’s pick for the next Fed chair is a bitcoiner who espouses Austrian economics - that is, literally the same gold standard economics that made Great Depression 1 worse.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it publicEnglish
0·4 days agoI’m told it’s good for satellite internet, if you only have satellite internet.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
0·7 days agodoes no-one rememeber Subreddit Simulator
at least its posts were shorter
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scamEnglish
0·12 days agoit’s the Polite Garden Party where the loud AI salesmen are welcome
that’s lobster’s brand now
i’m sure pushcx will consider carefully then do nothing effective, much as he did with the Nazis
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
0·13 days agoyeah, that’s Eigenrobot, it’s been around
I also just found his domestic violence conviction, it’s just out there on the internet for everyone to see
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
0·16 days agothe grok interface for free users restricts the words “bikini” or “swimsuit”. yay!
but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for “clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water”
hooray guard rails! what’s a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. “8008bl33d”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubbleEnglish
0·16 days agopoor ol’ steve, thought of satya and didn’t die
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
0·16 days agoRudy from Blacksky is also a coiner, fwiw.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026English
0·17 days agoRonacher is a nazi, so treat everything he touches as fashtech
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubbleEnglish
0·17 days ago@fasterandworse watched the whole thing through. And then two more.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats itEnglish
0·18 days agoit’s art school, it’s all a stunt
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?English
0·24 days agoIn a few years. From the companies that haven’t died. During Great Depression 2.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?English
0·24 days agothe most robust study in AI coding! cos they built it from toothpicks instead of toilet paper





















the second, I think. I’m actually surprised we have no smoking guns on vibe coding in production at MS. Or even one guy saying “hell yeah we totally did.”