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Elon Musk's Neuralink wins FDA approval for human study of brain implants by Akriti Sharma
Elon Musk's Neuralink received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone for the brain-implant startup as it faces U.S. probes over its handling of animal experiments.

Oh that’s just stellar.

The guy who can’t keep a microblogging site from falling over wants to implant a chip into your brain and get this, wants you to volunteer for the privilege.

Hard fucking pass.

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It looks like Reddit is keen to pull an Elon around API pricing.

Yes, of course it is risky to build a business based on access to someone else’s platform. They hold the cards. But one of the joys of the open web was the ability to use the client you wanted. A graphical browser, a command line browser, from a script etc.

Once again, what a mess corporatisation of the web has caused.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

—@neil

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Procrustean Epistemologies, Pt 1: The Allergy Problem
In the last month, two different hospitals both managed to almost kill D by medication errors. At least, I'm insisting they were errors, though such as they were is, I gather, not what is usually considered a "medication error". She was not administered too much, she was not administered someone else's meds, she wasn't administered something other that what was prescribed.