- George Church was reportedly unfamiliar with hard-SF author Greg Egan, prompting discussion about Egan’s extreme privacy—no public photos or personal details despite a Twitter presence.  
- Bryan Bishop posted a series of new transcripts on cryptoeconomic topics, including “token journals,” “journals-as-clubs,” funding open-source projects, reproducible builds, knowledge aggregation, zk-SHARKs, and threshold Schnorr signatures; all are collected at http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/cryptoeconomic-systems/2019/.  
- Participants debated the quality and transparency of YouTube’s AI-generated captions, citing Google research papers from 2013 and 2017 and noting that the platform does not clearly label which algorithm produced a given set of captions.  
- A call for a global, standardized spot market for compute rental—where users could programmatically buy cycles from the lowest bidder—was raised on Twitter and discussed in-channel as a missing piece of cloud infrastructure.  
- The channel’s topic line was updated to reference FBI scrutiny of biohacking and to note that the discussion logs are publicly archived at http://gnusha.org/logs.