If you think that is bad:

In 2020, Nature Medicine reported the story of Australian woman Rita Leggett, who’d received an experimental brain implant to treat her epilepsy. Implanted as part of a clinical trial, the device worked for Leggett: she stopped having seizures. However, mid-way through the trial, NeuroVista, the company that made the device, folded after investors became nervous about providing financial backing to such invasive technology.

Because the company was no longer operating, there was no means of monitoring the device. It was, quite literally, dead in Leggett’s head (well, not quite – the battery was meant to last three years). Her husband offered to buy the device from NeuroVista but was refused because of its proprietary components. Her only option was to have the device removed or ‘explanted’.

https://blog.kowatek.com/2024/05/04/brain-implants-are-becoming-obsolete-like-old-phones-what-happens-next/

Certainly an L timeline.

​“And because we need somebody who will actually fight back against the ‘fart left,’ we need Michael Whatley in the United States Senate,” Vance said on Monday to applause. ​“Now, you may not have even heard that, but I actually - I usually don’t misspeak - but I just called them the ‘fart left,’ not the ‘far left,’” Vance continued.

The vice president’s remark drew some laughs from the crowd, with Vance going on to preemptively dismiss any suggestion he deliberately used the term.

​“I promise that was an accident,” he said. “So to the fake news, who will accuse me of bad language, I promise I did not mean to call them the ‘fart left.’ I meant to call them the ‘far left.’”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-fart-left-north-carolina-b3054126.html

As an American, I really wouldn’t be. 😭

I think political apathy, while not helped by the shitty candidate selection and ‘both sides’-ing of the media, is one of the biggest reasons we got to this point.

This is so sad! ChatGPT, play Thinking Out Loud.

Their vile propaganda, our glorious Truth (social).

Hopefully the US learns that politics is not something you should choose to ignore.

Here’s some hope: (This data is from 2024, so with the current political climate, it is probably even better for the Ds)

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-texas-ever-turn-blue-heres-what

Here is a pretty good rundown on the incident that started this AI apocalypse PR push and why:

https://youtu.be/luXnftoxCaM

Or if you don’t mind it from a semi-pro AI source: https://youtu.be/kHW3Y0gObU8

AI is not only stealing jobs from traditional artists, but also scam artists!