Jonathan Hendry

@froztbyte @angrystego

To be fair they all too often have less agency about getting pregnant than they should, and getting pregnant is something women may fear or dread depending on the circumstances such as “was it rape” “is he abusive” “that’d really fuck up my career that is finally getting going” and “am I in Texas or Florida or Georgia or…”

Also, accidents happen, probably even with birth control defense in depth.

@V0ldek @angrystego

That doesn’t really apply to a guy you only know as Dewar number 27, does it? Raising a child with that person isn’t in the cards except by very unlikely coincidence.

@V0ldek @sue_me_please

IVF isn’t required if fertility concerns or frozen eggs aren’t involved, they can give you the home game.

And it should be no surprise that sperm banks want to be able to compete on the “quality” of their donors.

Just watch out for the bank that is 75% doctor jizz but it’s all from the proprietor.

@gerikson

Now if it was Brian Johnson from AC/DC, I bet it’d be awesome.

@o7___o7

There’s a hospital in France where a horse visits the patients. In the hospital. There was a thing in The Guardian about it a few years back.

@V0ldek

They’re going to end up cheating and using AI to summarize rat verbiage instead of reading it. And THAT is what will piss off the future AI god.

@Soyweiser

Just an example of the data involved in a brain-computer interface.

@Soyweiser @V0ldek

The multi-electrode systems at the lab I worked in 2009 used a fiber connection to the host PC and generated terabytes of data, for just 128 or 92 electrodes (I forget) at not-all-that-many samples per second.

@self

A lab I worked in (as an IT guy) used them for data collection, studying visual attention in monkeys.

Not a happy place for the monkeys although I’m confident the scientists did their best to not make it any worse than it had to be.

@Varyk @pikesley

Not the first, actually a late entrant.

I worked in a lab using implanted brain-computer interfaces 14 years ago.

Other labs using the same system had monkeys controlling robot arms, and a human controlling a computer.

@Varyk

Cryonics is a grift, nobody is going to be cured of death by future Dr Jesus.

@Varyk

Name ten.