- Beyond AI 2012 conference (Czech Republic) was being live-followed; pasky and chido offered to transcribe or summarize any talks of special interest to the channel.  
- Søren Holm’s talk on “the ethics of electric toothbrushes” was widely mocked: the toothbrush displays a smiley face when the user brushes long enough and was presented as an example of “moral-enhancing AI,” prompting skepticism about the rigor of such analogies.  
- Julian Savulescu’s presentation was praised by multiple participants as “very very good,” though no details were given in the log.  
- A brief debate arose over whether evolution can be modeled as a Turing machine (fenn: “no”), shifting attention to HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) as a more useful topic.  
- ThomasEgi noted that a German adult-toy manufacturer leaves the microcontroller programming pins exposed under the battery cap, sparking half-serious discussion about repurposing everyday devices for bio-hacking or quantified-self projects.  
- TheEmpath shared an “ontologically-aware PHP framework” called Verband, linking both a live demo (http://dev.4over.com/verband/Public/) and its GitHub repository (https://github.com/12dCode/verband).