Ted Rall for September 29, 2023

I’ve always wanted to have telekinesis. And I’d buy into a non-invasive system that didn’t send my thoughts home to Muskmania to be processed. The first part of that is about one more hardware generation away (5 years or so). The second part is a real killer though.

Nothing new.

That’s how Trump de-classifies top secret documents he has stolen.

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“Those documents are MINE!!! They belong to ME!!!!”

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Better to have the people in a state where they cannot easily communicate? Who are we to judge what treatment that patient agrees to.

It would be better if microsurgery were capable of nanosurgery and the sorting and reconnection of spinal nerves, but that might not be available before pan-extinction kills us all.

The people with quadriplegia acting as guinea pigs for the brain implants are very willing to do it, since while quadriplegia is not as terrible as locked-in syndrome, it is more disabling than just about anything else.

It’d be nice if we could bring ourselves to get up off our erses and stop pan-extinction, but that’s evidently too hard when there’s panem et circenses available on the tube.

The concept is not something brand new, I saw a TV interview several years ago where a person had some wires planted in their brain and could then use a computer to communicate, except the entire lash up was hard wired, and it wasn’t just 1 or 2 wires

Was wondering when something like this became reality. I’m sure there will be (if they don’t already exist) procedures to assist persons with artificial limbs with mobility.

The FDA is allowing human trials even after Musk mutilated and killed monkeys and had no success with his implants working.

U.S. anti-discrimination agency sues Tesla over ‘pervasive’ racism

A federal anti-discrimination agency filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing Elon Musk’s Tesla of allowing “pervasive” racism at its Silicon Valley car plant and retaliating against Black workers who opposed such abuse.Black workers at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, have routinely endured stereotyping, racial insults and hostility since at least 2015, according to the suit filed in federal court by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Great joke. Made me smile.

I’m no fan of Elon Musk, but why is this an issue? Paralyzed people who willingly volunteer for the chance of a better life.

You left out the part where all the chimpanzees they implanted with these devices DIED from the process.

What could possibly go wrong with human subjects?

I’d have to say no to anything Musk is involved in. The guy is a right wing lunatic, and likely is more interested in how he can use these chips to control people, than how these chips could benefit people.

Feinstein’s gone

Good work here, Ted. This is thought provoking. This is going to be a real thing sooner or later, but how we get there matters. Stephen Hawking might have considered giving this a shot, but Musk is not a guy who’s earned trust.

I’m 100% certain there are perfectly healthy people who’d volunteer to let Elon literally drill into their skulls, since he’s already done so, figuratively.

Jeez! What’s next, self-driving cars?

This sounds like a procedure that Elon should try.

Why does this remind me of Plankton’s mind control in the Spongebob movie