- The MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality released a deepfake video titled “In Event of Moon Disaster – Nixon Deepfake Clips,” which synthesizes President Nixon delivering the never-used 1969 contingency speech prepared in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.  
- Participants noted that the deepfake Nixon still falls into the “uncanny valley,” with one commenter suggesting that a skilled human impersonator would currently be more convincing than the synthetic version.  
- The full text of the original contingency speech was shared from the U.S. National Archives PDF: http://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf.  
- Discussion turned to GitHub’s July 2019 enforcement of U.S. trade sanctions, which blocks developers from Iran, Crimea, Cuba, North Korea, and Syria; affected users must upload government-issued photo ID and a selfie to appeal the suspension, marking a major shift toward real-name identity verification on the platform.