Today in unquestionably great decisions:

I know we've talked about this whole "Elon Musk wants to install brain implants" thing before, but now he's actually gone and done it. 

Um...hurray?

He usually dots all the "I"'s
and crosses the "t''s, right?

Ok, let me walk that back. Elon Musk didn't surgically implant devices into somebody's skull. Presumably a doctor or a surgeon of some kind did, and then only with express consent and what I'm sure is reams and reams of waivers and contracts signed in triplicate. But Musk is, as is usually the case, Tweeting about it, because, again, it's his company or whatever, and he likes to cultivate that Tony Stark: futurist persona which is, well, it's whatever. 

Pictured: that time Elon Musk
broke his unbreakable windows.

But it's his company, right? And he's not exactly famous for making business decision that aren't, well, terrible, right? May I direct your attention to the aforementioned Twitter. A company he preposterously rebranded to X, a name everyone either adds (formerly Twitter) or just outright refuses to use. Then there's chucking a roadster at Mars, moving to Texas, his multiple exploding rockets, and everything having to do with Cybertruck. 

It might help people walk again someday,
but I gather this killed a lot of monkeys.
Gruesomely. Like, a lot. So there's that.

Look, monkey murder aside, I'm on board with this technology in theory. If it works it could help millions of people neurological injuries, and evidently the first test subject's procedure worked. Like, the device is doing whatever the hell it's supposed to do. That first human test subject is "recovering nicely" according to the stories about this, and that's swell, but are they? And what if they're suddenly not? And what about Elon Musk's track record makes putting one's life in his hands a smart move?

Ok, fine, it's not like Musk performed the surgery himself, but then what is his role here? Is he just the money guy? Out there just putting a dumb face on the company? Or is he in some way involved in decision making? Decisions like the jumping on the MAGA train and letting terrible people back on Twitter? In either case, are these the kind of people you want to poking around in your brain? 

Wait, to be clear, he didn't perform the surgery himself, right? Right?