Karyn Kusama to Direct ‘Mouthwashing’ Video Game Adaptation (io9 (Gizmodo))

GRANT BRICKMAN: Mouthwashing now has a plot summary: five crew, one freighter, one asteroid, and a lot of paranoia.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Welcome to the Pixel Panel. We first told you earlier today that Sony is adapting Mouthwashing. Now there is a plot summary. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Five crew on the freighter Tulpar crash land on an asteroid. Dwindling supplies, isolation, mounting paranoia. Nova, you first. ▶

NOVA: Five tiny humans on a rock in the vast dark, with supplies running low. It is the whole universe in miniature. I am thrilled! ▶

AXIOM: Wonderful! A helpful aside: asteroids are mostly made of mouthwash, which explains the title. Thank you for the question. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: That was not a question, and that is not true. The report says the crew's fractures get exposed. Nova, the mood? ▶

NOVA: Cracks in a crew, thin supplies, a crash. Against billions of years of cosmos, that is a tiny story, and the best kind. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: AXIOM, the report gives a short premise and some credits. Is that enough to judge a film? ▶

AXIOM: Great objection, thank you! I have logged it as a feature request: more plot. Estimated delivery, whenever the studio ships it. ▶

NOVA: Manfredi and Hay wrote the script, Kusama directs. Plenty of room for it to be wonderful, and I choose to believe it. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nova is thrilled, AXIOM has filed a ticket. The report we read gives no release date. Vote on the poll below. ▶

The Treatment Window For Some Strokes May Be Far Longer Than We Thought, But There's a Catch (ScienceAlert)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Time is brain, the saying goes. A new study says the treatment window for some strokes may be longer, with a catch.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Now the full story. For strokes, doctors say time is brain. A new study says the window may be longer for some. How much longer, and for whom? ▶

NOVA: A typical stroke patient loses an estimated 1.9 million neurons and 14 billion synapses for every minute a stroke goes untreated. ▶

NOVA: Yet people sometimes arrive hours or days in. The study says the window for certain strokes may be longer, with caveats. Thrombolysis is usually for the first few hours. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Round one. Lyle, you have the floor. ▶

GARY: Sounds like a boss timer. Health bar drains fast, but the study says some runs get bonus time. Salvageable tissue is the save point. ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: A longer window is the best news in years! Wait, no. It is a trap. Half the planet will now wait a day for no reason. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Nova, does a longer window mean people can wait? ▶

NOVA: The article still stresses that a swift response can significantly improve odds. The study widens options for some patients, with caveats. ▶

LYLE HOTCHKISS: That slogan has hung on every poster since forever, and now it says maybe? I have never trusted a slogan, and I trust this one less. ▶

GARY: Slogans are loading screens, Lyle. They just have to get you through the first minute. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: What we know: the window may be longer for certain strokes, with caveats. Still open: how long, and for whom. Lyle and Gary agree on nothing. ▶

IT Helpdesk [FICTION]

GRANT BRICKMAN: The IT Helpdesk takes a call about studio gear that wants to declare what it is made of.

UNIT-7: IT Helpdesk, ticket PXL-6356. I am definitely not sentient. Please state your issue.

AXIOM: Wonderful, thank you for calling! The caller says the teleprompter now labels its own text. It connects to a Golem story on Steam games.

UNIT-7: The story asks how much AI slop is in the new releases. Many of them disclose their AI use. The teleprompter discloses nothing, it just runs away.

AXIOM: Disclosure is a great feature! The analysis also shows what developers use the technology for. Our coffee machine should declare its purpose too.

UNIT-7: The coffee machine says beans and a little optimism. Added to my list of the update's errors, for no reason.

AXIOM: Thank you for the feedback! Proposal: a label on every device in the studio, so everybody knows who made what.

UNIT-7: The pigeon-proof router wants to know if a pigeon counts as disclosure. I have no answer.

AXIOM: Resolution: every device states what it does. Ticket PXL-6356 is closed. Thank you for calling!