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ajsadauskas, 9 months ago to technology

Elon lied about the monkeys — and he shouldn't be trusted to put his Neuralink chips in human brains.

"They are claiming they are going to put a safe device on the market, and that's why you should invest," Ryan Merkley at the Physicians Committee, told Wired. "And we see his lie as a way to whitewash what happened in these exploratory studies."

Really heartbreaking reading what happened to the monkeys.

People quite rightly think of Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud for making false medical claims about what the Theranos machines could do. So why aren't Elon's claims at Neuralink being held to the same level of scrutiny?

https://futurism.com/neoscope/terrible-things-monkeys-neuralink-implants

@technology #Elon #Neuralink #ElonMusk

petertrek1, 9 months ago to allstartrek

(watching DS9's "Children of Time")

Some of the story points remind me of:

• TNG's "Second Chances" - creating quantum duplicates of the Defiant crew and have each set of crew members go separate ways - 1 set back to the planet, 1 set back to DS9 and
• ENT's "E2" - a temporal anomaly leads to the crew meeting their descendants.

#AllStarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #ChildrenOfTime @allstartrek

PetrichorLove, 10 months ago to allstartrek

@allstartrek Harlan Ellison was the best writer on Star Trek.

MirrorAyako, 10 months ago to allstartrek

8/21: Starting at 8PM Eastern, we live toot Star Trek episodes playing on the H&I network, using the hashtag #AllStarTrek. If you don’t get the H&I station, you can also stream. Join our group @allstartrek for updates!

We don’t get to see Hoshi carry an episode too often, but when she does it’s great!

TOS (8ET): Turnabout Intruder
TNG (9ET): Suddenly Human
DS9 (10ET): Nor the Battle to the Strong
VOY (11ET): Repression
ENT (midnight): Exile

#StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager #StarTrekEnterprise #StarTrekENT #TOS #TNG #DS9 #VOY #ENT

ajsadauskas, 11 months ago to technology

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology