- A radical open-ended nootropic experiment was proposed: evolve brain-infecting bacteria by serially infecting mice, selecting strains whose hosts score higher on cognitive tests, and then mutating the best performers—an alternative to rational drug design.  
- Participants discussed equipping candidate microbes with neuronally-relevant genes (e.g., growth factors) and region-specific tropisms to bias evolution toward useful or at least interesting neural effects.  
- Recent literature on parasite-induced host behavioral change was highlighted, including Toxoplasma gondii altering dopamine levels and impulsivity in rat nucleus accumbens, and Myxozoa that enhance fish swimming performance.  
- Greg Egan’s short story “White Knights,” featuring retroviral cognitive enhancement, was cited as prior art for engineered viral intelligence amplification.  
- Jeff Garzik’s “Dunvegan Space” venture released a preliminary design review (PDR) document for “BitSat,” a proposed CubeSat constellation that would broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain from orbit, providing censorship-resistant global access to the network.  
- The 26-page BitSat PDR (http://dunveganspace.com/assets/bitsat-design-pdr.pdf) outlines spacecraft bus specifications, link budgets, and operational concepts for a fleet of 24 1U CubeSats in 500 km SSO.  
- A GitHub pull request (https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer/pull/3) was shared, indicating ongoing maintenance or feature work on NanoEngineer-1, the open-source molecular CAD tool used for nanotechnology design.