- David Dalrymple’s whole-brain emulation project “NemaLoad” (nemaload.davidad.org) is now publicly described as aiming for mind-uploading and is privately funded by the Thiel Foundation.  
- A functional Windows x64 port of the open-source molecular CAD package NanoEngineer-1 (NE1) has been pushed to GitHub; it runs but suffers from an OpenGL clipping bug that halves the rendered model and turns the background white.  
- Contributors are debating whether to clean up a 5 943-file diff—caused by copying a Linux NE1 repo to Windows and changing file modes—or to prioritize fixing the rendering bug first.  
- nmz787 is weighing the trade-offs of pursuing a Chemistry PhD to gain access to microfluidic DNA-synthesizer resources, noting that US universities are legally compelled to patent biotech inventions and that exclusive licenses conflict with open-source release goals.  
- Hylas-Lisp, an LLVM-based Lisp designed for fast CAD and simulator applications, was introduced; the project is usable but still lacks complete macros and documentation.  
- A SourceForge fork called “moleculardynami” claims Windows 7 compatibility for NE1 but crashes with bsddb database errors, illustrating ongoing fragmentation in NE1-derived projects.  
- Practical Git advice was shared: disable file-mode tracking on Windows (`git config core.filemode false`), clone rather than copy repositories, and push feature branches to maintain clean history.  
- An IRC bot that posts NE1 commit messages into an irssi socket via a custom plugin is failing with “Connection refused,” prompting discussion of redesigning the socket-based integration.