2026-06-27 10:44:40
Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …
Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …
It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…
By linking up visual and auditory processing in the human brain, The vOICe vision BCI can act as both a fully noninvasive visual prosthesis for the totally blind and as a research vehicle for macroscopic neuroscience https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…
Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryb30q8bge
one way mastodon continues to absolutely whip bluesky's ass by an order of magnitude is by having a proper edit function, which means i didn't have to delete/redraft my mastodon post because my morning brain confused robert wilson & robert anton wilson.
Hmm, a brain haemorrhage - I wonder if that will show up in his plastination:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjlnrn47lwo
Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My
ADHD Families Podcast
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¿Quién se va a escuchar "Brain damage" y "Eclipse" todos los días de aquí al 12 de agosto?
Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4M round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic https://bmmagazine.co.uk/get-funded/revision-implant-4m-funding-brain-visual-prosthesis/ Brain implant for restoring vision to the blind;
Yes, it is. It also has this appalling change:
Sure, I know everyone (not really) loves git now. I have a GH account. I administer a Gitlab instance.
But I *USE* Subversion. It remains the definitive repository of the ASF software I work with and it’s how my brain works for version control.
Obviously I can still use svn in a shell. Most of my changes are very small, so vi and svn are fine. However, it is sad to see
💧 Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
#brain
I check out @… every now and then but I think I just don't like the format of short videos. It's sort of a jarring experience and (nothing against loops) I don't know if it's a good thing for my brain.
Contrast that to Pixelfed where it is still images, and there is a stillness to it... it's a image, no motion, no sound, and you can stare at …
#coffeeSnob
I don't want a coffee that "notes hints of cherry and cocoa."
I want a coffee that walks into my brain, flips a table over, and says, "Get up. We have responsibilities."
Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727967v1 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gears:
🎵 Teenage Brain
#TheGears
https://thedefog.bandcamp.com/track/fears-for-a-teenage-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nuY8QtC890uJH9fCWuTAm
Non-Invasive Stimulation of the Brain Ended Opioid Addiction, Cigarette Craving - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/26/221205/non-invasive-stimulation-of-the-brain-ended-opioid-addiction-cigarette-craving
Giants' Cam Skattebo on viral backflip fail, wild reputation: 'They wanna say I'm brain-dead ... who cares?'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-skattebo-backflip-b…
I'm not exactly sure what peptides are, but I assume it's brain worm food. :neocat_woozy:
Methane in the brain
Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/aldon-smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-center-as-familys-attorneys-invest…
New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…
Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?
OH: I'm convinced in my conspiracy monkey brain that some libertarians are getting funding from the GOP & DNC to be a distraction.
#Overheard
Can someone explain to me how the argument “ #LLMs only produce stochastically reasonable output ” is relevant or convincing?
Like… how do you think a human brain forms a sentence? Is this a straight-forward deterministic process? Does it matter?
I use tools and processes to verify my output and so does a coding agent.
I just don't get how this is an argument that would…
Well, that's probably been the worst day for #Depression of the whole bloody year, but I did not get nothing done.
I finished an essay, and I think it's an important one.
https://www.
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
Reading an article shared by a reputable source about accessible scrollable tables and the article indicates words that relate to the code by using color-coded underlines that are not links and my brain broke before I saw all the encoded px and LTR-only styles and yeah fine whatever close tab sigh.
EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/02/eu-approved-pesticide-found-to-have-potential-effects-on-brain-development
…
"Your brain is on fire."
"How could you ever know?"
"From what comes out of it... for sure..."
#humor #idiocracy #BrainOnFire
Playing Terra Nil right now, and it's funny because from the promo stuff I thought I wouldn't like it much, yet I'm enjoying myself a lot. There's definitely a game design lesson to be leaned here.
I was absolutely correct in my assessment that the game feels like it's actively trying to make suspension of disbelief as hard as possible with its completely ridiculous mechanics that make absolutely zero sense. "That's... Not how that works at all!" Is basically playing on repeat in my brain.
Furthermore, the entire technosolutionist tenor of the game rubs me very much the wrong way. This compounds with the physics- and biology-defying (or perhaps -spiting) fictional layer in cases like the convenient magical radiation-absorbing buildings so that you can reverse radiation contamination with a few simple clicks to be extremely bad politics actually...
But... The mechanics do work together quite well to make interesting puzzles with good gameplay that includes satisfying variety and challenges. The art is wonderful, and the music and audio design are spot on. The the result of each level is immensely satisfying, and the pacing is excellent.
I guess the lesson I'm taking away from this is that really solid fundamentals can triumph over an absolute cacophony of ludonarrative dissonance. That doesn't mean that in every decision between ludonarrative harmony (or just straight up believability) and neat mechanics you should compromise towards mechanics, but it reinforces the idea that if you make the mechanics enjoyable in the abstract, players (or at least, players like me) will be willing to compromise a *lot* on whether it actually makes any sense for things to work that way.
I'm still bothered by the "use technology to fix everything" politics, which prevents this game from being one I'll enthusiastically recommend, but despite myself I am having a lot of fun with it.
#GameDesign #SolarPunk
Heute, wie auch gestern, bin ich mit meinem alten Schatz, der Nikon D7200 und dem Sigma 150–600 unterwegs. Nach dem ganzen Schwall an Automatik-, Motiv- und Fokusprogrammen der hippen spiegellosen Systemkameras ist es so etwas wie ein Brain-Reset!
Eine Wohltat, sich mit den Basics der Fotografie zu beschäftigen. Keine Automatik, alles von Hand regeln und einstellen. Einfach den Moduswähler auf M stellen und selbst zu entscheiden, wie etwas auszusehen hat.
Ich geh dann mal malen … mit Licht!
Once you realize that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision will not be available for at least another decade, consider your other options more seriously.
Neuroscientists being “surprised” that the brain doesn’t work like a computer, episode 244:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01554-0
Seek professional medical advice.
If it’s a metaphorical pounding of the brain, you can start the meds immediately. @… https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116982677147848319…
(YouTube) Jacques Carolan — The mission to get breakthrough brain treatments to everyone #neuromodulation
New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-challenges-what-we-know-about-consciousness-and-the-brain/
Ccontrast Trump’s AI Jesus post with another Trump image that came into prominence last week:
As everyone else in the room is animated by concern for the fallen man’s well-being
—they’re elevating his legs to ensure that blood is flowing to his brain
—Trump is assuming the bored-to–petulant affect he normally shows when he’s not the center of attention.
He’s standing with his arms dangling at his side with his prepared remarks open on the desk in front of him.
He’…
White paper and living document: Comparing The vOICe vision BCI with Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision to the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html
(YouTube video clips) Recent developments with The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution includ…
China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…
Nourish, Heal & Rise With Dr Andrea Robertson
Each week, Dr Andrea Robertson (Osteopath, Naturopath, and Nutritionist) goes deep on inflammation, hormones, gut health, perimenopause, weight, energy, and brain fog...
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When will @… write about Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? Still nothing in sight. #BCI
"none of these legacy behaviours are rational. They arise out of that bundle of behaviours inherited from our two billion years of sexually selected ancestors... If our ancestors had not had these behaviours, we would not be here. Our ancestors were not, in the sense we mean here, rational... A purely rational being — a being created ab initio rational — would not have these behaviours.
No one is proposing to build an AI with a lizard brain. It won't happen."
Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children, chronic disease and other health problems #environment
Family to have Smith's brain checked for CTE https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49081473/family-aldon-smith-having-brain-checked-cte
Visual field position shapes input sampling and output routing in the superior colliculus (in mice) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728073v1 Likely nonfunctional with brain implants in V1 for restoring vision
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that
bacteria can learn from past experiences,
store memories across generations
and adapt their behavior to changing environments
all without a brain or nervous system
https://www.cmu.edu…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02446-z Might thalamic and other oscillations also determine if experiences appear visual or from another sensory modality? Looking for brain state control for senso…
I seem to have written a wee essay about #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI
It's probably not in its final form yet, I'll probably revise a bit. Comments welcome.
Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health
Required reading for programmers
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
China clears brain-computer interfaces for commercial use: Is it time for a global coalition? https://thedebrief.org/china-clears-brain-computer-interfaces-for-commercial-use-is-it-time-for-a-global-coalition/
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.
Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-neuroai-diagnostic-co-hemispheri…
Brain rewires to stabilize walking during visual impairment https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-rewires-sensorimotor-walking-blindness-30721/
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the effects of visual status on walking-relate…
cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announcedan effort to use artificial intelligence and an unusual fish called Danionella to understand how the brain controls complex behaviors like social interaction.
Janelia plans to triple the space dedicated to fish to 6,000 square feet, which will make room for thousands of new t…
A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail #invasive
Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China through controversial brain-computer interface lab https://thedebrief.org/convicted-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-career-in-china-through-controversial-brain-computer-i…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Neuroscientists long theorized that bilingual speakers must process different languages with separate patterns of brain activity.
In a new study, however, researchers found that these patterns were more alike than had been expected.
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance,
bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are speaking in their first or second language.
“It wasn’t obvious that it was going to…
The vOICe vision BCI is an alternative for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. Recent developments include a live AI depth view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3ElPNA21g, AI scene description
Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/seeing-and-imagining-are-handled-by-the-same-brain-cells/
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains ar…
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
https://www.
Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…
Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: A unified 2×2 framework and convergence roadmap https://arxiv.org/html/2606.15091v1
"Community Siloing: Research remains siloed. Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive se…
Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014434 by @…
Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI
Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…
Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…
#Paradromics: From brain implants to neuroprosthetics | Making sense of brain-computer interface terminology https://www.paradromics.com/insights/from-brain-implants-to-neuropr…
Predicting visual mental imagery: structural and transcriptomic signatures in the human brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10309-6 "a distributed cortical architecture underlying VMI vividness" (VMI = visual mental imagery);
Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness
Topographic reorganization of EEG complexity during visual mental imagery: Insights from Lempel-Ziv complexity in high-density EEG https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-026-01238-y "Visual mental imagery is the process of reconstructing perceptual experience…
Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/myelin-emerges-as-an-active-regulator-of-brain-plasticity-not-only-a-struct…
#Paradromics and University of Michigan complete first #Connexus BCI implantation for the FDA-approved Connect-One clinical study
The brain's code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01554-0 "Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought." Required for "time stamping" of events for long-term memories?
#MIRAGE: Robust multi-modal architectures translate fMRI-to-image models from vision to mental imagery https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.10142…
Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73947-8 "ventral division primarily processes auditory information and the dorsal division processes visual inputs", "this cortical orga…
Implanted brain-computer interface functionality during nighttime in late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-44228-7 "When applied to night data, daytime decoders caused unintentional BCI activations in 100% of nights."
China has approved the world's first invasive brain-computer chip - here's what's next https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/ (archived at
Spatial transcriptomics on an expanded dataset at the brain-electrode interface: exploration of variability and identification of novel biomarkers https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1852774/full "…
Scientists discover the brain can rewire itself to truly multitask https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-the-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-truly-multitask/ Implications for sensory substitution? Sensory overload?
Extensive experienc…
"We don't see with our eyes, we see with our brain" - Paul Bach-y-Rita https://www.seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html
Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…