- Seasteading was proposed as a regulatory workaround: offshore, FDA-lite jurisdictions that mirror “beneficial aspects” of existing medical-review structures while remaining lean and competitive for experimental therapies.  
- Myo reversed its closed-data stance, releasing Windows/Mac SDKs that expose raw EMG streams via onEmgData(), enabling open-source BCI and gesture-control experiments.  
- A deterministic SSH key-generation scheme (ed25519 from a single master secret + key handle) was shared, letting users spawn many unlinkable keypairs without individual backups.  
- Security incidents highlighted: (1) ECDSA nonce-reuse on blockchain.info exposing private keys, echoing the old PS3/PS4 signing flaw; (2) the “Misfortune Cookie” router exploit affecting ~12 million devices, with discussion of weaponizing it for remote patching.  
- Open-hardware barriers were summarized in the circulated essay “Why open-source hardware is hard” (mauve.plus.com/opensourcehw.txt), while a neuromorphic “BrainCard” Indiegogo campaign was dismissed as under-powered and hype-driven.  
- A conditional “salary-tithing Kickstarter” was sketched: technologists pledge 40 % of income to high-impact science only if aggregate commitments exceed $400 M/year, sparking debate on donation ethics and market-distorting aid.  
- Google’s paper “Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt” was linked; participants emphasized hidden data dependencies, feature-pruning tools, and the futility of “just add more compute” for AGI.  
- AGI architecture debate concluded that no single formalism (neural nets, lambda calculus, cellular automata) suffices; instead, multiple specialized reasoning modules must be integrated, with MOSES cited as a principled evolutionary-computation framework.