• Luxembourg’s new €200 million asteroid-mining fund sparked debate on financing ultra-long-horizon tech: participants modeled commodity-futures, zero-coupon bonds, and royalty-backed instruments for space mining and even for cryonics/brain-uploading where payoff timelines may exceed current global wealth.

• York University’s 2006 thesis “A C Compiler for Stack Machines” resurfaced; its appendix proposes a high-performance stack-machine ISA that members consider a promising intermediate representation for future AGI runtimes.

• Azonenberg’s “antikernel” paper—advocating a formally verified, non-von Neumann hardware architecture—was praised for minimizing attack surfaces in nanomedical or AI-box deployments, leading to the creation of a new #antikernel IRC channel and offers to collaborate with Blockstream’s formal-verification team.

• Project IceStorm (open-source Lattice FPGA toolchain) and Yosys (Clifford Wolf’s open-source Verilog RTL synthesis) were highlighted as enabling end-to-end, vendor-independent hardware development; the $4.29 ICE40LP1K-QN84 was cited as an immediately accessible target for low-cost experimentation.

• A BBC article on human-pig chimeras for organ generation was shared, illustrating the convergence of bioengineering and transhumanist life-extension goals.

• Moon Express’s pending first commercial lunar lander mission prompted the suggestion to use its ballast mass to deliver a curated “kilogram of refined commodities” as an off-world materials-market seed.

• Markram et al.’s 2015 Cell paper (31 000-neuron, 8-million-synapse neocortical microcircuit connectome) and a follow-up arXiv preprint applying algebraic topology to reveal 8-neuron all-to-all cliques and new spatio-temporal activity metrics were circulated, alongside tools such as hollow silicon microelectrodes for simultaneous in-vivo recording and tracer injection and comparative-connectomics frameworks for mouse vs. rhesus monkey cortical circuits.