overview for dgerard

We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

For years the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings

yep, it's our very good friends

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Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST?? (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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the purpose of a system is what it does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cjXpYX-wfE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260814-turkey-asks-the-ai-are-you-a-terrorist - podcast

time: 3 min 41 sec

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Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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saying the quiet part out loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4Ucw-zbpc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260813-amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in - podcast

time: 4 min 25 sec

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xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-payment (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Elon still a drag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYKFfzTcVo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260812-xai-data-centre-contractors-file-non-payment-liens - podcast

time: 4 min 37 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

lisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long

so in that sense it's in character

UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA front by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

yep, it's "us too!" on those

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago

worse yet, Amazon actually has uses for that much data centre

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UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA front (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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hence the weird "the AI escaped!!" instead of "we fucked it"

also annoyed to agree with Andrew Orlowski on anything, ever

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Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Trust in Zuck’s vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX5HjqPDAMU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260811-meta-brings-the-superintelligent-ai-future-probably - podcast

time: 5 min 07 sec

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Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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pivot from AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HldH51YwIBA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260810-robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans - podcast

time: 5 min 05 sec

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Molly White: following the AI and crypto money in US politics (video) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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OpenAI PACs in no-holds-barred combat with Anthropic PACs

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260807-molly-white-following-the-ai-and-crypto-money-in-us-politics - podcast

time: 32 min 15 sec

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The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Come to our training camp! Not a cult!*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZgAQD61xY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260806-ai-doomsday-cults-recruit-social-media-influencers - podcast

time: 9 min 05 sec

content warning: Aella

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Atomarine: nuclear-powered AI data centres at sea (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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how to tell if you’re in a bubble economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usq1Nu5wqAk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260805-atomarine-nuclear-powered-ai-data-centres-at-sea - podcast

time: 5 min 14 sec

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Gwern: I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel Inc and bring GAs to life. (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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https://gwern.net/guardian-angel - personal digital twins

this reads like a less addled version of Steve Yegge, but the same genre

headline source: https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768

hackernews loves it of course https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900

Linux users failing to respect trans Linux developers by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MOD NOTICE: we're not putting up with debate club rubbish in this thread. If you don't have the reading comprehension to understand the problems with those threads, you shouldn't be posting here.

America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ by dgerard in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 81 points 2 years ago

Every article on pronatalism in the past few years has been these two Thiel-sponsored white nationalist dweebs and nobody else. Why the fuck does the Guardian fall for this shit too.

The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 141 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone's best interests

edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people