- Ben Goertzel proposes turning the island nation of Nauru into a “Transtopia” transhumanist enclave, sparking debate on post-colonial logistics, rising sea-level threats, and the historical precedents of isolated ideological communities (kibbutzim, Mormon settlements, Sealand).  
- Gartner’s 2010 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle places “Human Augmentation” at the very start of the curve, flagging it as a long-term transformative trend.  
- A Nature editorial urges scientists to publish all source code, arguing that “it is good enough” and that open code is essential for reproducible research.  
- DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make program and the VehicleForge platform are discussed as opportunities for open-source collaborative engineering; kanzure flags the need for crash-space near Caltech for an upcoming Humanity+ event.  
- OpenCog’s current capabilities are defended: demos show a Nao robot answering “Who threw the ball?” via embodiment, natural-language parsing (Relex), and probabilistic logic networks, with claims that imitation learning in virtual worlds is nearly ready for porting to hardware.  
- Eric C. Leuthardt’s ECoG neuroprosthetics talk is shared, highlighting minimally invasive brain–computer interfaces for motor and speech restoration.  
- Links to DIYBio toolkits appear: BioKM (lightweight lab project management), SADI semantic web services for bioinformatics, and the “Organism: making art with living systems” symposium at Columbia.  
- VHDL-AMS is noted as a hardware-description language for mixed-signal systems, relevant for open-source analog/digital bio-instrumentation design.