- Jamais Cascio’s upcoming appearance is noted with concern; participants reference his Fast Company post “Material Issue” and his older WorldChanging essay “Open the Future,” together with his 2007 diagram mapping political ideologies against future technologies.  
- The conversation links to Cascio’s “EarthlyIdeasLCA.jpg” life-cycle-assessment visualization and to Michael Anissimov’s 2007 blog post “Political Relationships and Future Technologies” on Accelerating Future, framing an ongoing debate about the political framing of transhumanist futures.  
- A participant asks where to obtain the ostrich genome, indicating interest in comparative genomics or synthetic-biology work with large avian species.  
- No substantive technical discussion or additional resources are recorded beyond these links and the genome query; the remainder of the log consists of routine joins, parts, and greetings.