Extra, Extra: OK Computer Brain

Published August 30, 2020

Two children's strollers next to the white and black Jean Dubuffet public art sculpture in Lower Manhattan. — Peter Burka / Flickr

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The NY Times looks at the "holy grail of brain-machine research: technology that can transmit information to the brain directly."
A member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer was fatally shot during street clashes between Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter activists in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night.
A wealthy developer is allegedly squatting in a Hamptons home he had been renting until the moratorium on evictions began and he realized he could just not pay rent for now.
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has written a beautiful tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman, who died on Friday after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers with lots of money are buying houses in other far less interesting towns because let's face it they never really belonged here anyway.
Here's one way to move a mattress.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced that they will no longer hold in-person briefings on foreign interference in the presidential election for the House and Senate Committees on Intelligence.
Every Lada Gaga song, ranked.
And finally, what's better, this stunning video of a lightning storm over Cape Canaveral or the Miami Vice-esque synth soundtrack that accompanies it?

INSANE #lightning storm over Cape Canaveral #Florida last night. Mother Nature is AWESOME!! Watch til the end (sound on) for some crazy slow motion of the lightning crawling across the sky! #weather @weatherchannel @NWS @WFTVWeather @CNNweather pic.twitter.com/foilJ03DYD
— Toccara & Sam (@ForgetSomeday) August 30, 2020