A year ago, Time magazine named Donald Trump its Person of the Year for the second time, generating howls of outrage from Democrats and solid sales of the latest edition with Trump on the cover. (He was also selected in 2016.)

This year, it’s hard to imagine who is going to buy up all the issues. Certainly not Elon Musk’s mother — Maye Musk hasn’t even tweeted about it, despite her son being in the official Person of the Year painting, a reimagining of a famous photograph from 1932.

That’s because in choosing “The Architects of AI” as the most influential people of 2024, Time found a way to unify America, pleasing no one at all, except the handful of people featured on the cover. The mehs are deafening, as are the “you’ve got to be kidding me’s.”

“Is that all you’ve got?” the whole in

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