Eric Berger is a malicious actor and continues his craven propaganda campaign on behalf of Musk and SpaceX, framing testimony from one guy as some sort of watershed moment. He needs to be fired yesterday - ThreadSky

esghound.com • 14 days ago

Eric Berger is a malicious actor and continues his craven propaganda campaign on behalf of Musk and SpaceX, framing testimony from one guy as some sort of watershed moment.

He needs to be fired yesterday

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esghound.com•14 days ago

I am dead serious. Conde Nast and @arstechnica.com management need to put him on probation and audit his past work. This is beyond embarrassing, especially considering the excellent work being done in other sections of Ars and sister publication @wired.com

esghound.com•14 days ago

like, fuck, Eric doesn't even know or care what the difference is between a blog post, a news story, or an OpEd. It's all just one sloppy mess of the three constantly. That alone is unacceptable for a "news editor" and it is just his little fiefdom, fully signed off by management of the company.

wanderingincode.bsky.social•14 days ago

Do you think he should be fired here because he's wrong? Or because his articles themselves will somehow lead to SLS being canceled?

antidr.bsky.social•14 days ago

He should be fired because he's a liar and propagandist and have been for years

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•14 days ago

The Ars Technica editorial staff at this point is complicit. They are well aware of the issues and (aside from a few who are openly critical of Berger) have closed ranks around him. Fuck Aurich and his faux-neutrality.

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•14 days ago

The only reason I still go to Ars is to watch the Berger comments sections fill up with angry space nazis complaining that the commentariat hates their South African Jesus

esghound.com•14 days ago

the comments section has been getting real good over the past few months tho

amphibiouscat.bsky.social•14 days ago

I will never ever stop making accounts to call that dude mean names in the comments

esghound.com•14 days ago

thank you for your service o7

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•14 days ago

The comments section for this particular article definitely seems scrubbed to me; am I being paranoid?

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•14 days ago

And rest assured I run an ad-blocker for that shit, although I mostly tolerate ads on the web as the price of consuming free-to-me content.

jadedietzdance.bsky.social•14 days ago

He should really just stick to weather.

amphibiouscat.bsky.social•14 days ago

His weather blog is sponsored by one of the shitty deregulated Texas energy companies. Dude sees money and just starts licking boots with the very farthest back part of his tongue. He should shut the fuck up entirely

oh-that-amy.bsky.social•14 days ago

I fervently believe that he should be no-platformed for carrying water for a Nazi.

antidr.bsky.social•14 days ago

Also lol he jumps to "this guy is now pro commercial" even though saying you need an off ramp implies nothing about it being commercial or not

karinspace.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is one part of it. The other part is that one more typical Republican is obviously giving up on common sense just to follow his MAGA leaders. Believing that a human Mars fly-by might be feasable within the next five years should disqualify anyone from being taken seriously.

petebrooksbank.bsky.social•14 days ago

There are people on the NSF forums who seriously believe there will be humans flying to Mars in the next transit window and I'm not even sure where to start digesting that level of hysteria. Is there another place where the discussion is less delusional?

karinspace.bsky.social•14 days ago

Honestly I don't know as I have withdrawn from about every social media space group and prefer to only keep direct contact to industry people and the very few experts I trust. The Space Hipster group on Facebook used to be very good, but even there the standard is declining.

esghound.com•14 days ago

I waded into the social media landscape in rocketry/space only recently in the last 4 years and looking back at old posts from 2015 or so it's quite stunning how the monkeys have taken over the zoo

neutrinocatcher.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was there... the day the will of men failed.

Sorry, I meant I was there in 2007, & later when all became "IP/ITAR/proprietary" by default, instead of "shit I can study actual NASA docs and technical drawings", they said it was for the best.

So much burned at the altar of "commercialization"...

petebrooksbank.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was a big fan of Philip Sloss and his NSF articles on Orion/SLS precisely because they were very technical, but now NASA have clammed up and everything out there is politicised frothing at the mouth at the thought of giving everything to Starship. "Launch on 420 lol" memelords have taken over. Ugh

karinspace.bsky.social•14 days ago

NASA at the moment didn't even send somebody to testify in today's Artemis Science Comittee hearing. I just listened to the whole thing and it was mentioned at the beginning that they were invited to do so, but refused.

hightokolob.bsky.social•14 days ago

Time to find an off-ramp for a part of the Artemis program that works because it has the wrong branding 👍

petebrooksbank.bsky.social•14 days ago

Eric getting all giddy at the thought of a beautiful, beautiful monopoly.

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