bitofhope

Yea, it's not good of Ars to report the shameless "think of the kids" spin uncritically.

kintamagotchi

Here I thought this was just some rando with a substack but it looks like the backstory on this guy is pretty extensive. He's admitted to the sexual harassment allegations, so that's confirmed. Vice cut off ties with him, so I'm glad to see powerful men facing consequences for their actions for once, at least as long as they're left wing columnists which is still something.

The most extensive coverage on the drama seems to come from human vulture Ian Miles Cheong, who reported that then former and future first failson of the United States Donald Trump jr. was also paying attention to this rare case of a sex pest getting his just deserts.

I couldn't find anything regarding the transphobia claims, but I didn't feel like digging too deep either. I wouldn't be shocked if a smarmy marxist from Normal Island turns out to have Normal Island opinions on trans people, especially given the random Sonichu snipe in the OP.

This is not a place of honor…

Oh, right. I forgot the obligatory comment.

@dgerard why did you make the header image so sexy again?

They called the idea nutty, even seedy, but the Copilot mascot turned out to be a seminal piece of marketing that spawned generations to follow. This was a huge release that left a lot of the more conservative viewers clutching their pearl necklaces. Cream of the crop. Busting once and for all the myth that Microsoft isn't a fertile place for breeding marketing innovation. Coming out of nowhere, a climactic moment in the 2025 AI summer. Truly a moment to refract on during the upcoming period. All the money they've splooged on AI is finally coming to fruition and not just blown off and swallowed. The success will surely rub off on the AI industry as a hole or at least jack up Microsoft shares with vigorous excitement. And other semen jokes.

Please tell the multi-trillion dollar company I'm sorry I made fun of their AI slop mascot. Just because it's a milky white blob of fluid doesn't mean it looks like a blob of another kind of milky white liquid.

Oh man, that was a chuckle and a half. Choice quotation:

We’re supposedly dealing with a group of idiosyncratic weirdos, all of them trying to independently reconstruct the entirety of human knowledge from scratch. Their politics run all the way from the furthest fringes of the far right to the furthest fringes of the liberal centre

Anyone know a good gladiator arena with aperol spritzes? I have a date to plan for the weekend!

Just because it's true, that doesn't mean it's not rude. Now I might condone being rude on ACX but I'm also not claiming to have reached enlightenment.

Fuck you Microsoft, I'm gonna have to pretend to be autoplag's dad now, at least have the courtesy not to make it look like a cum blob.

I'm sorry he feels that way. I'm here for him if he wants to talk about anything, just let me know.

An alternative explanation for a lot of this is that people are seqrching for something that interests them, seeing that every result is spam or shopping and exiting the page.