Now that we've monkeyed around... Let's go over this @IGN tweet, as a good example of how nonsense spreads. Curtain pulled back stuff 🪄

On Saturday, co-founder/pres of @neuralink, @max_hodak tweeted the exact words IGN quote in this tweet. He started his sentence with "we"... Hodak is the president of Neuralink so, some assume "we" is referring to his business, I guess. But the job isn't to just rehash some dude's tweet -- it's to actually ask the Q.

The story popped up in a few places early, like Futurism.
futurism.com/the-byte/neura…

Dominic Dwyer, an Australian researcher on the WHO's coronavirus origins team, published a short piece in the Conversation today. Not much we can glean from it but a couple of interesting points!

theconversation.com/i-was-the-aust… Dwyer categorically rules out Huanan Seafood Market as a starting location and says "we need to look elsewhere for the viral origins."

Another passage suggests genetic evidence generated *during* the mission suggests a transmission cluster. New genomic data?

So, the IgNobel prizes were announced today. One of the winners?

Knives manufactured from frozen human 💩 "do not work"

Let's talk about frozen shit knives. The impetus for this study comes from an account of an Inuit man who refused to move from his settlement, deciding to stay on the ice. His family took all his tools away to compel him to leave. But he didn't.