i remember rightwingers, the same who praise elon musk lately, screamed for months about implanting chips during covid vaccinations. oh the irony.

Security Log day 42: Our request for a proper security door was denied. “Just buy a master lock, it’s cheaper” was the reply.

Oh well, I’ll make something work. Right after my quick meeting with HR.

[Last log entry]

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

June 9th: Of the original four dozen, over 75% are now deceased. Strangely, no clear patterns have emerged as of yet.

Batch 5 seems to have no common discernible effect on any specific group though the men seem slightly more resilient than the women.

June 18: And only five left now. Two men and three women.

The man in room five is a fascinating case. Physically, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him. No cellular anomalies, nothing.

December 24th: I was in the mess. It was about half past ten when we heard the first explosion.

The ones at the front ran straight into the gas. It was horrible.

It was the man in room five. I couldn't have known. The chemical supplies, grease solvents, ammonia, fertilizer. He'd been making things with them.

Mustard gas... And napalm.

And in the yard, I saw him. He had the flames behind him. He was naked.

He looked at me...

As if I were an insect. Oh god. As if I were something mounted on a slide.

He looked at me.

The device looks like it was chewed by a wild animal parts of the board is missing but you may be able to recover some data...

Day 1 mission log: We have arrived at the lab to try and figure out why the scientists have ceased communication. We found the door damaged and pried open. There is a broken loader out in front of the lab. we are setting up a perimeter.

Day 2: We were woken in the very early morning to the sounds of something large in the bush. We heard a scream and upon investigation Johnson was ripped apart and partially eaten. we have implemented a more strict watch schedule.

Day 3: we have finally managed to enter the lab. We lost Johansen and Richardson last night. Hopefully we can figure out what happened and what is out here.

---Data corruption detected---

Day 7: Mother of god there was blood everywhere. doors ripped open, bodies and body parts everywhere. There are runes drawn in blood on the walls. There is some sort of device that is projecting a shimmering portal, I'm going to investigate it more and try to find my missing team members...

Unable to recover any more files, CRC check sums have failed, data corruption 98% ---

I can imagine for people who are disabled this is super exciting stuff.

Enough animals died. Now humans have their turn

Do we have any concrete evidence that he’s even telling the truth? Something other than a tweet on a platform he owns? He seems to lie often.

FDA had denied, company presumably made some sort of changes that were not publicized (or paid off the right people), FDA approved.

They were approved last year in May by the FDA for human trials

https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

All implanted medical device firmware should be Free Software.

https://youtu.be/k2FNqXhr4c8

...how. I make plastic medical devices and I need to support them for 10 years by law, since that is considered "lifetime" for it. How is a company not supporting them before the lifetime of the product (i.e. before they need to take them out) and gets away with it?

Elon never invents anything new. He finds a complex concept, scuffs off at it's complexity and announces it's actually really simple. Creates company that over-simplifies things.

Sometimes his project fails enough times that it starts working (space x).

I've been thinking about it a lot as simply a literary tool and how hard it must be to come up with all the little notes and logs that just give the audience little glimpses and makes them piece the whole story together themselves, as opposed to simply telling a story in a more traditional way. It always feels like what we, the player, can see in the course of a game is miniscule compared to what they had written behind the scenes.

When the patient dies Musk’s team will write a report saying it was the patient’s fault.

Aren’t they usually transcriptions? I don’t remember any games off the top of my head where some scientist is actually typing their last thoughts out…

"I've created the Torment Nexus, from the sci-fi classic 'Don't Create the Torment Nexus'"