The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
Sure, the possibilities are endless, so the first thing we’ll get that has any research money and effort put into it is how to turn it into an advertising platform and then maximally enshittifying it as soon as there’s a market share to speak of.
Oh, they’d never do anything as sinister as that. That may still be illegal (if the ultra-rich lobbying hasn’t taken care of that obstacle by that point).
Instead, they’ll just make sure that whatever essential core service they’ve built a monopoly in by just muscling the poorer competitors out of the race will cease to be offered to you if you refuse to hand all your money over to them.
See also: insulin, hospital treatment, etc. This is just a new playing field to find old prey in.
But how are the corporations then supposed to keep ripping off their wage slaves by making them afraid to ask for more or organise out of some drummed up moral concern? Huh? Didn’t consider that, did ya? Won’t somebody think of the poor, poor corporations?
I don’t know what they’ll do to him, but I can tell you: if you were to do what he did, the twelfth time, there’d surely be some sort of stern admonishment, or maybe even real consequences!
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
“Download our app and consume ads on it because… becaaaaauuuuuusssseeeeee, um, let’s say SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN? Maybe terrorism? Just pick a reason you’d believe and get the app, okay?”
It’s fine though, we already have the solution. Basically. I mean, I’ve marked it in my calendar, so we’re basically halfway there already. Now get off my back about all the CO2 pollution we get rich off.
This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software...
Starfield’s largest update since launch is coming on May 15! The May Update includes more detailed surface maps, new gameplay difficulty options, new features for ship customization, and more!
One session after that, they find out that the continental cartel has had decades to entrench their position on the market and can and will field all the manpower that dozens of diamond-producing national branches can field in order to regain control of one lost national mining branch. Two sessions later, the alchemist is the one who knocks.
Yeah, but it’s a straight terrible port from a mobile game with a solid gacha foundation and Baldur’s Gate skins tacked on. Also you need to subscribe and pay a weekly fee to get access to the premium lockboxes that may or may not (spoiler: they do not) give you the characters/skins/whatever that you actually came for. Everything is time-gated unless you pay more of the premium currency to be allowed to grind more for a chance that won’t proc anyway unless you go into debt to buy enough crates.
Ahummm, well actually, * adjusts monocle * time travel is not possible and since nobody has invented time machines yet, neither of these scenarios would happen in reality.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
[Discussion] What comedians would you like to see live that you haven't yet?
Camelot Rule (lemmy.world)
Trump Posts -- Then Deletes -- Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying (www.rollingstone.com)
What is Reddit doing (feddit.nl)
I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
Geoengineers think they can slow climate change. The catch? No more blue skies. (link.houstonchronicle.com)
[Official] Switch 2 will be announced this fiscal year + June direct confirmed (twitter.com)
This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software...
Starfield: May Update (www.youtube.com)
Starfield’s largest update since launch is coming on May 15! The May Update includes more detailed surface maps, new gameplay difficulty options, new features for ship customization, and more!
Kerbal Space Program 2 studio reportedly shut down by Take-Two (www.eurogamer.net)
Helpful diagrams (mander.xyz)
Rule (i.imgur.com)
Gravy rule (slrpnk.net)
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. (en.wikipedia.org)
Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws — The Shovel (theshovel.com.au)
Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not....
How do *you* cast Mighty Fortress? (ttrpg.network)
Bus rule (slrpnk.net)
What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared.
Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.
Wizards of the Coast "now talking to lots of partners" about next Baldur's Gate (www.eurogamer.net)
we live in an explosion (mander.xyz)
Eleven ways to tie a scarf (pix.anduin.net)
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