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Eh. Bean there, done that.

I mean, everyone has a type. Even Manson had a fanclub.

Still, 🤮.

Many comics have their own dedicated communities.

Personally, I think I would prefer to see this one have its own community. Which I would also subscribe to.

Conde Nast doesn’t have an interest in driving away their readers, and AI bullshit absolutely will drive them away. They know this. Ken Fisher is the editorial lead for AI at Conde Nast (not just Ars), and said as much in the comment section.

AI is absolutely fucking things up on a grand scale in all sorts of industries, but as of right now, Ars is relatively safe and I don’t think we need to inflate the scale of the danger.

Tesla, Neurolink, The Boring Company, and Twitter are for sure all somewhere between over-valued meme stocks (at best) and scammy shit-heaps (at worst).

SpaceX, however, is actually doing good and cool stuff. Not that it doesn’t have any problems, it’s still owned by a moron.

Not sure how that would work since SpaceX is a private company. Pretty sure he would have to take SpaceX public first.

He will have to sell a rocket-full of Tesla stock though.

I’m not so sure Ars has a vested interest in OpenAI. I actually read through 10 pages of comments. Ken Fisher was pretty active in them, and noted several times that Ars doesn’t see any of the money from this deal.

Boost user checking in, also currently on .world but I’ve been on several and… it’s fine. No problems.

I used to use Sync, but the sporadic updates lead to rapidly piling bugs.

Where I work now is really weird as far as time off goes. I don’t get a limited number of vacation days. But I do have a limited number of paid sick days.