- MAPS has completed the first FDA-approved therapeutic LSD study in four decades, reopening the door for psychedelic-assisted medicine.  
- Solar and wind prices have fallen so far that “there is no excuse for shitty energy,” according to an article from enn.com/energy/article/46872.  
- The channel debated whether proprietary technology (Windows, closed-source transhumanist futures) inherently limits human potential, while open-source stacks (Linux, open-hardware ErgoDox keyboard, 3-D-printed eco-villages) were held up as models for high-tech, low-impact living.  
- A new open-source NLP pipeline, BlanQA (GitHub: brmson/blanqa), reached its first working milestone and can now answer arbitrary questions on short text snippets.  
- Participants explored the practical impossibility of legal omniscience: secret courts (NSA warrant mills), ever-shifting statutes, and over-broad court orders such as the UK requirement that ex-LulzSec member Mustafa Al-Bassam report the “serial numbers” of every computer—including cloud VMs and Raspberry Pis—he uses.  
- Harvey Silverglate’s book “Three Felonies a Day” was cited to illustrate how vague laws and prosecutorial discretion criminalize ordinary behavior, a problem that even future brain-augmentation or exocortex tools may not solve.  
- A Common Lisp developer showcased an in-progress, web-framework-agnostic ORM intended to improve on existing Lisp database libraries (CLSQL, Postmodern) and mirror some of SQLAlchemy’s design strengths.  
- The Medea hypothesis—Peter Ward’s theory that life tends toward self-extinction rather than self-regulation—was introduced via Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis) and met with skepticism over any implication of teleological intent in biological systems.