- A community-driven “transhumanist technology tree” is being drafted in YAML at http://fennetic.net/irc/technology_nodes.yaml; it borrows structure from Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and the 2017 Rockwell Integrated Space Plan (https://integratedspaceanalytics.com/im/2017/isp.html) while explicitly tagging grassroots vs. capital-intensive technologies and omitting manufacturing details (those were handled by the earlier SKDB project).

- The new “Vitaprint” bioprinter successfully produced vascularized ear-shaped constructs, but criticism arose because it relies on a proprietary CNC controller rather than open-source alternatives like LinuxCNC.

- Security-focused hardware discussions weighed capability-based addressing, tagged memory (lowRISC, CHERI), and side-channel resistance; a RISC-V security/crypto working-group member solicited community input and floated radical designs that drop cache coherency, shared memory, and even Linux compatibility in favor of many-core scratchpad architectures (Celerity, Esperanto 4 k-core) or legacy x86 “islands” beside clean-slate cores.

- An open-source beam-forming microphone array toolkit was shared at https://sourceforge.net/p/manyears/wiki/Main_Page/ for DIY audio processing projects.

- Evidence of large-scale identity theft in the FCC net-neutrality comment process was presented: fraudulent comments were filed under the names of non-technical relatives using the precise phrase “Title II regulatory framework,” documented at https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/.

- Participants described “gift coauthorship” as an academic game in which researchers pitch ideas over coffee, leave before writing, and let professors claim authorship for prestige and citations; one participant rejected GPA optimization as an even more meaningless metric and endorsed the coauthorship hustle as the lesser evil.

- Ledger, an open-access cryptocurrency and blockchain research journal, was suggested as a venue for publishing without needing established professors’ names.

- An interactive hyperbolic random-walk simulator (https://www.math.upenn.edu/~pstorm/hyperbolic_random_walk/index.html) was offered as an unconventional tool for “suddenly understanding economics.”