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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Mitchell, you've been around rationalism long enough.

When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global Inequality in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago

what's good about this article to be worth posting?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mm5ebihpjvtrdunomulbls5m/post/3mrx2xflgp22d

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available.

This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis (video) (www.youtube.com)
 

‘just let the money run out, it’ll be fine in two years’

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260731-nik-suresh-on-surviving-corporate-ai-psychosis - podcast

time: 38 min 59 sec

cleaned-up transcript to be on the Patreon later on (YouTube has the messy transcript right now)

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Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

not SAYING that AlphaFold cures cancer, BUT,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260730-google-kills-alphafold-so-much-for-ai-curing-cancer - podcast

time: 5 min 40 sec

Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

it was "fob off" until I discovered merkins don't understand that one

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Let’s palm off humanoid robot teachers onto the poor kids! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

totally not repurposed s*x dolls, how dare you suggest such a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdZCnZrSZU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260729-lets-palm-off-humanoid-robot-teachers-onto-poor-kids - podcast

time: 8 min 18 sec

Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AI Overview special cased it, booooo

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have you ever sent a promotional email to someone who thinks you all belong in jail? (awful.systems)
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this is a hoot

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117003533670109098

Hi there,
I am Shriya, reaching out on behalf of Frame Fellowship, a 10-week residential program in San Francisco, US for creators who want to become leading voices on AI and its impact on society. We were following your content and thought you are exactly the kind of voice we built this program for.

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Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

the end of human history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FPzOWi0YI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260728-sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-singularity-now - podcast

time: 8 min 49 sec

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Chrome forces Gemini global shortcut onto your Mac (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Google knows where you’re going today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8XXxY9Cgo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260727-chrome-forces-gemini-ai-global-shortcut-onto-your-mac - podcast

time: 4 min 49 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

and covid vaccine denier

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

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Codeberg bans AI slop software projects (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

crypto scams too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KKDaUle5vI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260724-codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects - podcast

time: 6 min 30 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

my god, you found the good HN comment

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Émile Torres deep-sneers Nick Bostrom, the smartest man in Sweden (www.realtimetechpocalypse.com)
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AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Strip-mining the world of old books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3SwofuMt0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260723-ai-vendors-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot - podcast

time: 8 min 42 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI — allegedly (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

just in time for the IPO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrI4VcJtFFs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260722-openai-hacks-huggingface-with-an-ai-allegedly - podcast

time: 7 min 46 sec

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New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv9wcfCogw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260721-new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-ai-britain-into-the-cabinet - podcast

time: 5 min 16 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

yeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki

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Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else’s locked phone (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

thanks, Gemini power button!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQD2SSGO3JI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260720-use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone - podcast

time: 4 min 01 sec

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