• A new paper on “onion artificial muscles” was shared: http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/Onion_artificial_muscles.pdf, describing a low-cost, plant-based actuator technology that could be relevant to soft robotics and prosthetics.

• Archels completed and submitted a long-gestating philosophical paper on mind uploading, noting that an earlier draft has been hosted on diyhpl.us for four years; discussion ensued about whether to post the final version to arXiv while awaiting journal feedback and about checking journal preprint policies.

• James Hughes, director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, was criticized for emailing a JET (Journal of Evolution and Technology) password in plaintext, prompting commentary on security practices among prominent transhumanists.

• Kanzure’s recent post to the bitcoin-discuss mailing list was praised; it contained a quote from Gregory Maxwell lamenting the polarization in the block-size debate (“20 MB NOW vs never increase”) and the difficulty of conveying nuanced technical trade-offs to the community.

• Technical tooling questions were raised about automatically extracting Python class hierarchies, methods, and function signatures from a codebase; suggested solutions included Sphinx, ReadTheDocs, and simple grep-based parsing.