• Baltic Honeybadger 2018 full live-transcripts are now on diyhpluswiki, capturing talks on trustless systems, Bitcoin scalability, Lightning Network, smart-contract futures, institutional adoption, extreme OPSEC, and merchant use-cases—serving as a primary-source record for open-source transhumanist finance discourse.

• NVIDIA’s open-source vid2vid repository (2048×1024 photorealistic video-to-video translation) was flagged as a watershed moment that “breaks trust in any video you see,” highlighting the erosion of audiovisual authenticity.

• CTRL-Labs’ electromyography-based BCI demo (linked via Hacker News) was circulated as a concrete, near-term human-computer interface datapoint for biohacker experimentation.

• A legal debate questioned whether “public-domain” software still exists under the Berne Convention, citing Sandia National Labs code once labeled PD that is now privately maintained, and the risks of reverse-engineering binaries whose authors claim PD status.

• Cornell’s public-domain flowchart and Berne Convention references were offered as jurisdiction-dependent guides for determining true PD status of software.

• DIY plant-hacking experiment proposed using sterile IV bags, catheters, and pressure-cooker sterilization to inject sugar solutions directly into avocado phloem; concerns raised over osmotic balance, pathogen entry at puncture sites, and the yield-vs-disease-resistance trade-off.

• Alternative suggestion to inject sugar into the root system instead of aerial phloem to reduce dilution shock and signal loss while maintaining plant health.