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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 8m

right this week's videos will all be called Linus Torvalds Is A Big Fat Doody Head

youtube stats on Linux video: 99,117 views, £98.86 revenue

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 9h

can't we just keep our favourites ,o_o, app.ft.com/content/2c8c610b-83f3-4c… this is the slogan working

FT headline

Not every billionaire is a policy failure

Indiscriminately targeting those with 10-digit fortunes is arbitrary, misguided and costly

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

it's always the ones you most suspect fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117453005618069047

Bradley M. Kühn
@bkuhn@copyleft.org

@copiesofcopies

We are more in agreement than you realize:

I guess now is a good as time as any to “come out”: I'm using #Anthropic's #Claude on a regular basis to help me figure out what types of policies we should set for reasonable & ethical use of #LLMGenAI in #FOSS, & also to actually improve FOSS codebases.

I believe it is reasonable to use proprietary technologies as long as our eyes remain on the prize of defeating those technologies.

@cwebber, I suspect, doesn't agree.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

US Third Circuit: AI training not fair use after all Anthropic on tenterhooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYp5RCRVTl4… - video podcast coming shortly time: 5 min 10 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Epic Games goes full vibe code: MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION ‘No more hand-written code’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UGgcs0H3s… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/episode-202610… - podcast time: 5 min 08 sec

guy in suit and VR headset floating in cyberspace vortex

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits ‘The kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world’ […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Linus Torvalds greets his friends at Nvidia, 2012

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t work the return of the SaaSpocalypse www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTbb7Ub43F0… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261013-the-a… - podcast time: 4 min 59 sec

robot artist in full painter dressup draws crude stick man

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

AI game demo going broke on just 430 players all my apes gone www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZ6_Q2lnsc… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261012-ai-ga… - podcast time: 4 min 47 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

discovered Nhim's Mimi comics www.reddit.com/user/nhimzy www.reddit.com/r/NhimArts a perfect little gamer gremlin with a long suffering perfectly nice boyfriend

short blonde girl with concentric circle crazy eyes

Mimi: Stop using A.I. to make art! Star using your PENT-UP UNRESOLVED TRAUMAS to make art like everyone else does!

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude Us abusing our customers is different, you understand www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7vxLQi4pQ… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

robot being chased by scientists, one of whom is wielding a wrench

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’ pivoting from space www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_TlfIKgL5w… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261008-space… - podcast time: 5 min 20 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all ‘scraped the web and found the bugs’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=krayLBNiAx8… video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261007-mytho… - podcast time: 7 min 03 sec

pretty witch h@xx0ring your b0x0r with a wave of her hand

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make ‘in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLoCXTSRJc… - […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no ‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthr… - podcast time: 7 min 58 sec

Pope Bob writes to the AI bros: it's not me, it's you

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres APRS and helping local communities fight back www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDXbDrzKoWY… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Kat Jones of APRS, in a red coat and a wool hat on a hillside

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers when you can’t fiddle the numbers any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261001-anthr… - podcast time: 6 min 56 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

rationalist funding thread. it's always the ones you most suspect

The Weirdness of Dating/Mating

Let's put all that together.

I claim that most women have a “deep” preference for nonconsent in dating/mating. It’s not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk what if we made a computer you just couldn’t rely on www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5_no4quNQ… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260930-new-a… - podcast time: 7 min 02 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks even the AI that works doesn’t work www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260929-ai-su… - podcast time: 4 min 10 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Meta’s Muse AI agent: a hilarious security disaster ‘the only form that this kind of product can take is a botnet factory’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytNZfilDJs… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI data centre contract Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

OpenAI hacks Australian government health data Sam Altman: ‘whoops sorry lol’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dnkwAjuPs… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260924-opena… - podcast time: 4 min 45 sec

Sam Altman, chatbot-powered medical expert

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!" nope, they're now doubling down further. this post is a study in the art of nazi apologetics in online discourse - removing the […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

KDE
@kde@floss.social

@1stname_buncha_num @MaddieM4 @arthsmn

Bringing an on-going discussion from outside into a thread with which it bore no relationship, and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it).

The correct way to proceed is to alert mods, sysadmins or another participant in the discussion privately.

What happened is akin to someone walking into a restaurant and seemingly randomly punching another patron. They're going to get thrown out.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Trump decrees: Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence Wile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMYQkadVbw… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucination the existential risk from AI: stupid people www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

handheld stopwatch with a mushroom cloud on the face

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

When the AI slop is bad enough the AI CEO notices Tobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weIKnLSmIU… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Main KDE account is now trying to manage trust, as if Masto has never seen corporate DARVO. this only means that KDE Eco is all lined up to be ignored in the name of diversity" between normal opinions and absolutely reprehensible ones the standard you walk past is the standard you endorse.

KDE 30m @kde@floss.social

KDE Eco @be4foss@floss.social

Given its extremely high energy and water consumption, the increased minimum system requirements driving premature hardware obsolescence, among other very problematic social and political issues, genAl/LLMs are not compatible with the values and goals of KDE Eco.

KDE is a diverse community and the opinions and projects of some KDE contributors are not representative of the entire community or KDE Eco projects.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Scottish Parliament passes AI data centre pause No to a full moratorium www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260918-scott… - podcast time: 3 min 50 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders Keep the home fires from burning www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260917-ai-da… - podcast time: 3 min 44 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’ ads for people who block ads www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0PsTnLVL0I… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260916-chatg… - podcast time: 4 min 50 sec

somewhat disconcerted woman and man dangling on fish hooks

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

today i learned that AI doomsday cultist libertarians are far left now, and the Murdoch press is running a hit piece on METR x.com/nypost/status/210016307835664…

New York Post
@nypost

Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse. Read today's cover here: https://trib.al/lNmAVwg

headline:

Revealed: Far-left group that Silicon Valley wants to oversee our tech-led future

THE WOKE WIZARDS OF A.I.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalists Coxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everything Coxon: nailed it found by […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Ed Zitron
@edzitron

what is your relationship to the rationalists and effective altruists?

Jacob Coxon
@hilbertspaess

Yeah, this is a really important question.

I've been associating with rationalists for almost a decade. Their ideas were compelling and you can’t deny their foresight. The founders of every superintelligence effort are all bound up in the rationality sphere. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman used to frequent the MIRI offices.

The way | relate to rationalists is it’s like the bizarre hypertrophied physiques on specialized athletes. In my opinion they have weirdly specialized minds that make them uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience. These “specialized minds” also can make them off-putting to many people.

I dont know if I'd consider myself a rationalist. I am intuitively opposed to polyamory, veganism, and consequentialist intuitions. But I certainly trust them to be correct about factual questions.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Jensen claims 100× returns on Nvidia’s circular financing Not a Ponzi scheme www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ1gdMm17E… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260915-jense… - podcast time: 7 min 15 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

AI slowdown: The only AI guardrails you need are Trump, apparently we’re not running out of money, no no www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y5SpNLoRsY… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

mostly this is in ethereum, which is a public blockchain and closely checked by governments If your team is full of people who like being paid in crypto, you have a certain type of team with a particular threat model and a particular shade of meaning of […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Cryptocurrency enables us to reliably pay a team distributed around the world. It has provided the majority of our funding and is how we're able to run GrapheneOS as a non-profit entirely funded by donations. Many other privacy projects also receive the majority of their donations via cryptocurrency.

We're being attacked because we're transparent about how we're funded, how we pay our team and our general belief in technology protecting people from authoritarian states.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

incredible creatures x.com/rationalaussie/status/2097647… i'd like to think it's parody, but he's a bitcoiner too

Rational Aussie
@rationalaussie

Rational Aussie
@rationalaussie

It took 88 hours of compute to solve NS.

Let's assume P=NP is maybe an order of magnitude harder.

So 880 hours of compute to solve.

It will fall within 36 days.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine — AI as eugenics Coming to PBS Monday 14 September! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjQ788Fc3Y… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Jacob Coxon: how to run an AI doomsday media campaign to keep you talking about Skynet — not the data centre down the road www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IoTZNN6iM… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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