Giving a for-profit corporation direct access to your brain sounds like a great idea with no downsides whatsoever. I love the thought of worrying about my brain implant having a glitch or facing planned obsolescence.

Edit: OH God I actually read the article and this thing connects to exterior devices. Imagine your brain literally being hacked.

To be specific, this is a pilot program, with the full launch coming later.

Nothing to see here, folks, just Elon Musk, business genius at work.

Technically the vegan thing is possible if someone figures out a way to make lab-grown meat work. Definitely more realistic than a non-violent Nazi.

That’s very shocking. All of Elon’s other companies have such a strong reputation for reliable engineering. /s

Wait, they actually made that thing? I assumed the project would be canceled after everyone laughed at the reveal.

Not legal, unfortunately.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

The Taft–Hartley Act amended the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), adding new restrictions on union actions and designating new union-specific unfair labor practices. Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.

I was surprised to see this wasn’t an Onion headline.

Oh, yes, please do. Just put that bullet in the skull of Twitter’s zombified corpse and end its suffering forever.

I guess it makes sense that Dropbox in particular would be cool about this.

I had the same question, so for anyone who doesn’t want to dig through the article:

To defend its 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules, the Pai FCC argued that broadband isn’t a telecommunications service because Internet providers also offer DNS (Domain Name System) services and caching as part of the broadband package. A judge said the Pai FCC was entitled to deference on this opinion—even if it didn’t make a lot of sense.

Basically, Trump’s lackeys legally classified broadband as an “information service” to screw the American people and the question is whether the Supreme Court will go along with this blatant nonsense.

“Our company is like a professional sports team, except we are definitely not going to pay you like actual professional sports players.” - a guy who makes way too much money

It’s important to note that DC have denied that Willingham can do this, so the first person who tries to take advantage is going to get sued. That alone is probably enough to scare off most people, regardless of who is technically in the right. We’ll see how this goes.

The point of putting a property in the public domain is precisely so anyone can do whatever they want with it. The basic idea is that all creators draw on their wider culture for ideas, and therefore all creative works belong, in part, to the wider culture, and need to be turned over eventually. The fact that Willingham uses so many public domain characters in his comics is itself a good illustration of how this works. Two of his main characters are Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf (among many other fairy tale characters). They eventually get married. Are you concerned about preserving the “spirit” of those original stories, which Willingham freely reinterprets? I doubt it, and you shouldn’t be. We all, as a culture, own those characters and can use them however we want. What this decision means is that the same now applies to Willingham’s specific versions. I have immense respect for the man for making a principled decision.

As for how it damages DC, it doesn’t do anything directly. They can still make and sell whatever they want, same as before. It’s just that now they have competition, because other people can also make and sell Fables books. Assuming DC loses the inevitable legal battle, at any rate.

I can’t get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.

Rich guys like Musk spend so much time getting their ego stoked that I think he might genuinely be unable to process the idea that he made a mistake. The wealthy can never fail, only be failed.

Yeah, get them! Take the corporations for everything they’re worth!

I was hoping the cyberpunk dystopia would at least be cooler to live in.

I guess the lesson is that Netflix was always doomed the moment the companies that actually produce and/or own all the content realized how lucrative streaming could be. They were only as successful as they were because they had no competition.

The article that this article links to says that the rocket failing wasn’t the outcome they hoped for but since the launch was a test rather than a critical mission they spun it as a learning experience. Also apparently the explosion was a deliberate self-destruct after the engines failed partway up, so at least that system works.