What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

He'sGotCarsBigAsBars

He'sGotRiversOfGoldVille

From Miles Klee, writing in Rolling Stone:

After years of delays, Neuralink Corp., a startup co-founded by Elon Musk and a small group of scientists in 2016, is set to begin human trials for an implantable brain chip that the tech CEO says will revolutionize humanity. And people are more than ready to lead the charge...

Yes, that's right.

It would appear that the US'ian FDA has given Mr. Musk and his band of merry men permission to start sticking stuff in people's brains.

If you click through and read the entire piece, I trust you will agree that what is most disturbing about all of this is the snake oil that Musk is selling and, even worse, how that is sucking in the gullible, hand over fist, who are ready jump on board the trial.

Meanwhile...

Mr. Musk's (allegedly) implant-free genius at Twitter isn't performing so well:

Twitter's value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022...

And then, over at the car company place, there is, separate from any exploding rockets, a small matter of product performance:

Tesla has earned a new title it may not want to tout: the brand with the most car recalls...

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...In terms of the most recalled models, the data paints a clear picture: Teslas will cause buyers the most trouble of any car brand. The electric-vehicle maker's core lineup—Models 3, Y, X, and S—claimed four of the top five spots...

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..."Most vehicles behave like the Toyota Camry–most of their recalls are issued when they are first introduced, with a rapid decline after 1-3 years," says Karl Brauer, executive analyst at iSeeCars. "But some cars, like the Tesla Model S, see a pattern of ongoing recalls, or even an increasing number of recalls, as time passes. Owners of vehicles with that pattern will continue to face recall hassles for years after they acquire their car.”...

So.

How, exactly, does one go about recalling an implanted brain chip?


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Image at the top of the post?...You can read more about Clark Stanley, the man who co-opted Chinese medicine and then sold a far inferior product made from rattlesnakes, here...


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