MS Now will fill its weekend evening schedule largely with taped video podcasts, expanding its use of Crooked Media content, starting June 28 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ms-now-video-podcasts-weekends-alex-witt-exit-12…
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;
Thank you to whoever it is in interlibrary loan who included their sparkly nails in the article scan! Absolutely #GLAM
Lions place starting safeties Kerby Joseph, Brian Branch on PUP list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7471617/2026/07/26/lions-kerby-joseph-brian-branch-pup-list/
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 …
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);
Today in unanticipated editing work I had to point out that a transcription of a French-language text was obviously incorrect since, first, it made no grammatical sense and, second, retargeting shit ("remire la merde") doesn't make it worse ("plus ça pire" - see pt 1). Stirring it, though, might make it smell worse ("plus on remue la merde, plus ça pue”). Oh the places a PhD will take you.
When will @… write about Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? Still nothing in sight. #BCI