These articles are all fairly old news and you may have heard about most of them before, but they are all good examples of the kind of stories I wish to include in the future so I'm using them to set the general tone of the newsletter going forward.

First up is neuralink: The first human trial for the neuralink device was a great success. There were minor issues with the implantation procedure where a pocket of air may have dislodged a number of the filaments, despite this however, the team managed to crack the current BCI bandwidth record by miles.

This is a great rundown of the procedure from the head researchers and developers on the team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux5AiKmra-E and lex fridman posted an 8 hour long interview with Musk, Mathew MacDougall, Bliss Chapman, and Noland himself - the first human to get a neuralink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbk9BiPhm7o

Next up is the FOSS movement in the EU: In july of this year the Swiss government required that all software in use in the public sector has to be open source, this comes after german state Schelswig-Holstein also made the move towards linux and libre office and away from microsoft in april of this year.

This is great for so many reasons, governments can save money, create jobs for developers, improve national security, and, by putting tax money into the FOSS ecosystem, positively impact not only their own citizens, but people all around the globe. Mental outlaw has a video going into this which is definitely worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE80b73QVw

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human ingenuity is overrated anyways