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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • STOP FINDING THINGS

    • WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
    • YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
    • Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA "RANDOM PAGE"
    • "Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS and A PARAGRAPH OF SLOP FIRST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

    LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

    (This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

    • "None of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with the letter 'K'."
    • "Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
    • "Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need."

    "Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn't generated"

    They have played us for absolute fools

  • OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO

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  • I have no idea and I wonder if The Information does either.

  • Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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  • i wish it didn't

  • Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

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  • and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:

  • GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

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  • yeah, the drive to an IPO is purely escape hatch. they did one thing right in that being money bonfires is part of their well-known charm. But this much of a money bonfire, well.

  • Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

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  • as if they didn't put enough of a lie to it when they go to court to stop the details being released

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    Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/19/tucson-project-blue-data-centres-lie-about-water-again/
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    GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • this is likely tomorrow's Pivot

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • I called it out as lies and bullshit, the poster asserted it was totally true and I asked for numbers to support this statistical claim.

  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • I don't know of any examples that aren't LLMs themselves.

  • Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?

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  • If you read the post, you'll see ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • did you mean to post this in this week's stubsack?

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    arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/15/arxiv-bans-academic-authors-for-ai-slop-papers/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • looking very much forward to that crashing head first into arXiv threatening a ban if your chatbot fucks up in your name

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • the reply is about as close to being nice and helpful as one could be, really

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    Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/14/kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-centre-will-it-happen/
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    Google replaces your PC mouse with yelling at Gemini

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/13/google-replaces-your-pc-mouse-with-yelling-at-gemini/

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • we apologise for the world

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%

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  • that 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

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    GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/12/gitlab-announces-ai-layoffs-stock-goes-down-9/

  • Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs

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  • That's the neat part, you don't!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026

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  • bizarre. Magic Dirt was an Australian indie rock band in the 90s.

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    Banks turn data centre loans into 2008-style financial time bombs

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/11/banks-turn-data-centre-loans-into-2008-style-financial-time-bombs/
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    OpenAI may not be able to IPO in 2026

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/08/openai-may-not-be-able-to-ipo-in-2026/
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    Google Chrome force-installs a 4-gigabyte AI model — how to get rid of it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/07/google-chrome-force-installs-a-4-gigabyte-ai-model-how-to-get-rid-of-it/
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    OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/06/openai-chatgpt-goes-goblin-mode-let-none-say-model-collapse/
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    Grok AI unofficial crypto wallet hacked with an NFT and a prompt injection

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/05/grok-ai-unofficial-crypto-wallet-hacked-with-an-nft-and-a-prompt-injection/
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    Microsoft VS Code says Copilot AI wrote all your code

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/04/microsoft-vs-code-says-copilot-ai-wrote-all-your-code/
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    Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide (video interview)

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    OpenAI to Microsoft: It’s not me, it’s you

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/30/openai-to-microsoft-its-not-me-its-you/
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    OpenAI tries ads in ChatGPT — but it won’t save them

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/29/openai-tries-ads-in-chatgpt-but-it-wont-save-them/
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    Tokenmaxxing: “How much did you spend in tokens?” — CEO of tokens

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/28/tokenmaxxing-how-much-did-you-spend-in-tokens-ceo-of-tokens/
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    Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/04/27/kohl-verlags-new-line-of-ai-slop-school-textbooks/