cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702

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screenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from ‪@comraderobot.bsky.social‬ (“Notorious RBMK”) saying:

my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.

there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged

image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:

REM sleep is the next Al

The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup

  • Controlling a smart home from dreams
  • Transferring speech from dreams
  • Controlling virtual cars from dreams
  • Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
  • Social media for sharing dream journals
  • Smart sleep masks powered by Al
  • Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)

Don’t miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors

Aug 29th Palo Alto

Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying “Possible tumblr screenshot” with a “hide” button.

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the guy behind this startup:

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    “I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain’s motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming”

    Techbros are cultists, complete with blood rituals. Sure, sometimes self inflicted spectacles, but it doesn’t really stop there if there’s some Megele-style “experimentation” to do.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      There’s blood rituals and then there’s “i drilled a hole into my own skull and stuck an electrode into it to make this look less like powerpoint engineering”

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, that’s a new level of it. It’s self-inflicted harm for now. so-far

        “Neuralink” already goes beyond self-inflicted for similar bazinga experiments. CW if you dare to see what they’ve already done to hundreds of primates.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      “I confirm the information published in the Daily Mail. On May 17, 2023, I performed by myself trepanation, electrode implantation, and electrical stimulation of my brain’s motor cortex. I needed it to test brain stimulation during lucid dreaming”

      This is what you find written on scattered notes in an abandoned asylum in a horror game