In other words, it's a whole bunch of far-out stuff. It's written a little more on the lighter side, or snider side, but there was just such a bunch of peculiar news that is now normal that I couldn't let it all go by without comment. (Keep your sarcasm detector turned on.)

It's a Chipper world
First off, we had mad scientist Elon Musk announcing he plans to have a full human-born population roaming the earth within ten years. His astronomical plans are to get Neuralink brain implants into millionS of people within a decade. No sense doing long-term testing like we do with drugs for a decade before we even start using them in a widespread manner. Just start chipping up the general population. Its chips ahoy from here to the horizon of humanity.

I'm sure he'll run into road blocks from the FDA that slow his enormous aspirations and maybe some law suits, like he has self-driving Teslas, but I can hardly even see myself wanting to live in a world increasingly full of and run by the prototypes for Star Trek's Borg. What a hostile society that will become between the Chips and the Old-Bloods like me who refuse to get superpowers, so we become almost unemployable, maybe even unable to operate the new central-bank digital currencies.

Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips…

According to the firm, the second patient to be fitted with the device was able to use it to play first-person shooter games and design three-dimensional objects.

"If all goes well, there will be hundreds of people with Neuralinks within a few years, maybe tens of thousands within five years, millions within 10 years," Mr Musk wrote on X in response to Neuralink's blog post.

One day, when millions of Chippers are running around, there will be a large solar storm that will fry the chips inside of their heads creating a nice little molten smoke patch inside of all their brains simultaneously, taking down airplanes midair, running trains too fast around curves and derailing, crashing semis hurtling down the highway. It won't just because the machines chips got fried. It will be because their human operators, if they even have human operators were using their Neuralink chip to operate the vehicles' digital controls, and they went up in smoke.