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
important instance shit@awful.systems•Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderationEnglish
4·5 hours agoyou need to go into the image store with a machete by hand, there’s no image moderation interface as such
it’s one of the wonderful things about lemmy
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
important instance shit@awful.systems•Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderationEnglish
8·8 hours ago“libertarian” outside the US is the leftist term that Rothbard specifically and knowingly co-opted for shitheadry
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
important instance shit@awful.systems•Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderationEnglish
8·1 day ago(image deletion is a lemmy joke for the advanced sufferer)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
important instance shit@awful.systems•Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderationEnglish
6·1 day agolol if i’d seen that i’d have moved to part ways long before this, goodness me
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
8·1 day agowe apologise for the world
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
important instance shit@awful.systems•Defederation of db0 instances for LLM moderationEnglish
8·1 day agosorry sorry the chatbot posted a fisher price police tricycle im trying to delete it
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•what the everLLM-ing fuck is going onEnglish
18·2 days agoThe cabal has gone “yeah fuck this” and succumbed to exhaustion https://awful.systems/post/8294148
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
15·2 days agoi want to speak to the manager of storytelling
(found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l)

David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%English
3·2 days agothat correlate maybe too well with the Bitcoin dump at the end of January.
ohhh lol holy shit, that’d be a fine thread to pull on
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
6·2 days agoThat’s the neat part, you don’t!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026English
4·3 days agobizarre. Magic Dirt was an Australian indie rock band in the 90s.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombsEnglish
8·3 days ago“That’s as good as money, sir. These are tokens.”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
5·4 days agosomeone i recently fucked for the second time
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
5·4 days agoI spent January 1990 I think? reading all of Analog/Astounding from about 1959 to 1975. (It was 40 deg C all month and I stayed in with my aircon.) I loved that stuff from anthologies of the best of it, and I can assure you the original mags are extremely much the 90%.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’English
5·7 days agothe youtube vid is a huge hit too, everyone loves pissed off goblin lady
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’English
5·8 days agoYou can’t stop the goblin. Nobody can stop the goblin.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
6·8 days agothe guy’s a bit of an infosec mall ninja, so reread anything he claims in the calmest possible way
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026English
11·9 days agowe’re still sending the occasional carrier pigeon and I can assure you he’s COPING JUST FINE REALLY JUST FINE



















db0 gets new job at IMAX with that projection power