As we approach the end of the week, enjoy these fun pics memes, and Tweets at your own leisure.
If you haven't heard, Elon Musk's Neuralink project just installed its first real implant into a human test subject's brain. Anyone scared of the future thanks to AI, now has brain implants to worry about too. But while memes and reactions poured in about the news, it's not as bad as you might think... yet.
"[They are] recovering well," Elon tweeted about the undisclosed test subject. "Initial results show promising neuron spike detection."
Neuralink got approval to perform their procedure from the FDA and aims to test on people living with quadriplegia due to injury or ALS. Ideally, the link helps those people operate devices mentally, without needing physical motor function. In that respect, this seems like a positive breakthrough. But how long before, as one meme here puts it, someone uses it to "send 4.2TB of Skibidi Toilet rule 34?"
At least if the person is in Japan some of that will be censored, as another meme here points out.
In all seriousness, I see nothing wrong with cutting-edge technology designed to help people with spinal injuries. Just keep that procedure away from me and my brain. Now enjoy these randoms.
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And this is the car Franz Ferdinand was driving in:
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A coca plant looks like:
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Here's another early hair dryer:
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And here's Wadlow at his tallest, coming in at 8 feet 11 inches:
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It snowed a whole lot in Norway last week:
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Here's what he looked like on a plane:
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A medium-sized shirt in North America is an extra large in Japan:
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This is the pistol Gavrilo Princip used to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off World War I:
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Wine vending machines in Austria:
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Early design for an electric hair dryer:
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It was so cold in Calgary, Alberta, last week that the entire city was smoking:
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An Italian public school lunch:
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Robert Wadlow, the tallest man who ever lived, at 10 years old. His father, shown here, is 6'6":
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Every cause of death that occurred during a week in London in 1665:
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Chick-fil-A workers in the rain:
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Banana-and-cinnamon pizza in Brazil:
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Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it:
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This is the Speyer wine bottle, the oldest known bottle of wine on Earth. It's almost 1,700 years old and likely still drinkable!
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Peanut sellers used to wear suits with a ton of peanuts sewn into them:
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This is what a living sand dollar looks like compared to a dead one:
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The Roman empire at its greatest size, compared to North America:
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The aftermath of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919, a deadly event that claimed the lives of 21 people in Boston after a container holding over two million gallons of molasses burst, sending a wave of molasses several feet high through the city streets:
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The Eiffel Tower under construction:
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The inside of a pine cone:
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American Froot Loops and Froot Loops from other countries are totally different colors:
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The inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine:
