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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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in techtakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

lol that’s exquisite

but you could tell the guy was into Effective Altruism from how he did dust specks vs CEOs

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in techtakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

The whole internet loves CEO Murderer, a handsome murderer that targets CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the murderer is into AI

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in techtakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

just delivered a commission on why bitcoin is very like hawk tuah

this season’s word is: kleptokakistocracy

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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in techtakes@awful.systems•in which Edward Ongweso, Jr. beats Casey Newton repeatedly around the head with a clue bat

fwiw Amy and I are delighted to be in the “AI is fake and it sucks” camp

though also it’s real and dangerous, but not from going AGI lolol

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in techtakes@awful.systems•Godot Isn't Making it - (What if AI has already peaked?)

Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is

out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine

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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too(pivot-to-ai.com)

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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral(www.giantfreakinrobot.com)

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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning(anderegg.ca)

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Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age(boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com)

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AI and venture capital are going nuclear(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes(www.youtube.com)

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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further(pivot-to-ai.com)

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ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Anthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so much(pivot-to-ai.com)

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