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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

nobody at all should read it

but college hill risked her incredulity on one of their glowfics https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1957447689248882728.html

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

that EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD FUCKING USES

it's one of the tiny bricks way down the xkcd diagram

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

by "culture wars" she means she's a fucking nazi

This was the reason Wendy Hanamura cited when she canceled my invitation to speak at the Internet Archive.

hmm, looking at the text you link it says "your past statements in Twitter" first. could it be they found out you're a fucking nazi

also you're shocked, shocked to find that 4chan people are assholes. you hang out there for hours at a time. probably just coincidence.

Tunney has deleted the post already! But there's an archive and another one

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

He does, but also that piece is based on talking to the WMF employees, who he knows, and multiple of said employees have forwarded the piece to me.

It checks out as a good source.

 

‘Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed’

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtE4YzbPt1U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260526-pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it - podcast

time: 5 min 16 sec

 

They have played us for absolute fools

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260525-stop-doing-searches - podcast

time: 1 min 54 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/25/stop-doing-searches/ - blog post, but you want the audio

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago

this is a problem we have had for a while now, i assure you

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

i wish it didn't

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember him wearing a suit a lot in the 2010s and looking reasonably respectable. He can, he just doesn't.

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