- CarbonCopies Foundation will live-stream “Updating the Roadmap to Whole-Brain Emulation – Part 4: Successful Mind-uploading, Personal Identity & Survival” (link provided).  
- Discussion of MIT’s Robert McIntyre (Nectome) and the collapse of his MIT partnership after media coverage; participants note an “embedded observer” on the Nectome team.  
- DIY COVID-19 vaccine effort “CoroHope / CoroNope” covered on Biohackinfo; Sam Altman launches rapid-funding call for pandemic projects.  
- Google/Verily’s Project Baseline begins drive-through SARS-CoV-2 testing in Santa Clara & San Mateo counties.  
- Oxford Glycobiology paper (2008) on blocking SARS-CoV spike–receptor interaction with anti-histo-blood-group antibodies circulated as possibly relevant to COVID-19.  
- Technical debate on black-hole starships: feasibility of manufacturing 200 kT micro black holes via solar-system-scale accelerators, refueling via matter injection, and comparison to Revelation Space “conjoiner drives.”  
- New warp-drive paper (JBIS) proposes negative-mass-free Alcubierre-like metric using polarizable-vacuum theory; participants remain skeptical of polarizable-vacuum assumptions.  
- Mach-effect thruster discussion: NASA presentation summarized as “gravitational-wave photon rocket” with thrust/W similar to photon drives; deemed physically possible but extremely inefficient.  
- Hard-science-fiction reading list shared (Reynolds’ Revelation Space, Sheffield’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Baxter, etc.) plus curated library link (superkuh.com/hardscifi.txt).  
- Side project: dingo building an SSH-only, asyncio-based hacker chat in Python 3 using blessed & asyncssh, masked hostnames with Unicode geo-flags.