Emmeline DareJan 30, 2024
Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus

Hey FDA? I ask again: why y'all out here letting the world's most divorced man put chips in people's brains? Especially after nonhuman animal testing killed **65% Of The Subjects.**

I ask again, again: What in the ACTUAL FUCK is going on with us as a species right now, because it all seems VERY BAD.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-chip-first-human-x-twitter-1851207445

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Has Implanted Its Chip in a Human for the First Time

The billionaire says that the patient who underwent the startup's experimental surgery is "recovering well."

Gizmodo
Jan 30, 2024 at 5:46amWeb
Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusJan 30, 2024

And so y'all don't misunderstand me:

My problem is that he COULD do this if he wants *Because The FDA Approved Human Trials.*

Which means he doesn't have to lie about having DONE it, just about whether it actually does anything meaningful at all & doesn't just, y'know, straight-up kill people.

The FDA approved human trials for this. Approved letting THIS MAN actually claim he's working on BCI, even if all he's REALLY doing is cracking open some poor volunteer's head and digging around in there like a kid with their own tub of ice cream except to no meaningful end.

And that was, again, AFTER we knew how many nonhuman animals he killed in the early phases of all this shit.

What the fuck

Show threadStu Duerson, machina exo deusJan 30, 2024

@Wolven

This answers the age old question, "How do you do controversial human testing when you don't have concentration camps full of subjects?"

Yet.

Show threadvorlonJan 30, 2024

@Wolven but it's not approved as a therapy for any medical conditions so basically the only people getting this procedure are volunteers who are not making a decision under duress because of their health, right?

So are you saying it's wrong for Elon Musk to kill the kind of people who would let Elon Musk put a chip in their brain, or

Show threadJane AdamsJan 30, 2024
@vorlon @Wolven Researchers at universities are beholden to IRBs which will examine research study plans for things like economic duress, whereby the compensation is too high and the population too vulnerable to say no. Elon is not subject to anything of the sort. Reminds me a bit of this: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/google-allegedly-used-homeless-train-pixel-phone/599668/
Google Allegedly Used Homeless People to Train Pixel Phone

Google allegedly scanned volunteers with dark skin tones in order to perfect the Pixel phone’s face-unlock technology.

The Atlantic
Show threadAnthonyJan 30, 2024
@[email protected] oooooo, my friend, the phrase "the kind of people" is a phrase you don't want to be using like that in this context. Dear lord did you read your own words before hitting send?

@[email protected]
Show threadalmibeJan 30, 2024
@Wolven Well that's terrifying.
Show threadKavana RamaswamyJan 30, 2024

@Wolven
That article is an #ableist + #capitalist nightmare. From the content, to talking about people "suffering from disabilities" in need of fixing. the real reason they're trying it on #disabled folks is because we have always been treated as expendable for experimentation (and euthanasia).

Putting chips in brains as a "treatment" for mental illness is a sure way of creating the perfect labourers who never protest mistreatment, because they're always "happy".

Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusJan 30, 2024
@kavana It's a nightmare on basically every level.
Show threadUrzlJan 30, 2024

@kavana @Wolven That was the big upside of a lobotomy, wasn't it?

You destroy the part of the brain capable of being distracted with personality and leave the body still capable of taking orders.

The perfect fusion of robot slave and human body.

Show threadtextcontainerJan 30, 2024
@kavana @Wolven Olga Ravn wrote a book about it. Ignore the ratings, it is brillant! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53780642-the-employees
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant…

Goodreads
Show threadKavana RamaswamyJan 30, 2024

@textcontainer @Wolven

seems quite interesting, thanks for the recommendation!

Show threadzombywoofJan 30, 2024
@Wolven
He's seen too many evil billionaire characters in bond films
Show threadPass the DutchieJan 30, 2024
@Wolven what is going on is realizing our country was built on gentlemen handshakes. it's a house of cards where nobody is held accountable.
Show threadJuju&Baba&Yoyo🌈Jan 30, 2024
@Wolven
At least he hasn't gone on fire yet.
Show threadEvil Bunny PottymouthJan 30, 2024

@Wolven

Put a chip in this guy's brain... he prefers a potato chip.

Show threadStumpy The MuttJan 30, 2024
@Wolven I am guessing this is how we start creating Aldus Huxley's Delta class...
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJan 30, 2024
@Wolven it woul explain a lot if it was his brain it was tested on.
Show threadJenniferJan 30, 2024
@Wolven the only person who should have been eligible for this procedure is Elon
Show threadThe Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️‍⚧️Jan 30, 2024
@Jennifer @Wolven If he was *that* confident about it, he’d’ve stuck it in his own frickin’ brain
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Jan 30, 2024
@Wolven Sounds like the US approves anything for rich people, and to heck with any bad track record.
Show thread🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩Jan 30, 2024
@Wolven https://beige.party/@the_etrain/111844956796169460
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Show threadK.O'MaraJan 31, 2024

@Wolven

It seems strange that people do not recognize BETA TESTs by fascist billionaire, hooking up peoples' brains to a computer, as life imitating a bad dystopian nightmare. This does not begin, go, or end well.

Do it for the money, do it for the fame. Do it because you dream big, and collateral damage patients have signed NDAs.

Maybe the computer can somehow disguise the screams of the lab rat humans. Make it sound like a nice waterfall with birds chirping, or Xs tweeting, or something.

Show threadKevin Teljeur ❄️Feb 1, 2024
@Wolven But the rich man has an idea