- A Google patent (US20180328909A1) for a “demonpore” nanopore device was circulated, suggesting new directions in single-molecule biosensing.  
- The open-source GUI library Gooey was highlighted as a one-line way to turn any Python CLI tool into a desktop application, lowering barriers for bioinformatics and lab-automation scripts.  
- A new community project, transhumanist.club, was announced—offering Tor/I2P-friendly, cyberpunk-themed services aimed at decentralizing the internet and attracting transhumanist builders.  
- Recent high-impact papers were shared: GPT-3 (“Language models are few-shot learners”), organ-specific ageing clocks, engineered universal T-cells that evade host rejection, and non-invasive skull-penetrating ultrasound-optical brain imaging.  
- BRICseq—a brain-wide connectome mapping method using DNA barcoding—was noted as a scalable alternative to traditional tracing techniques.  
- DreamCoder, a wake-sleep Bayesian program-synthesis system that grows its own domain-specific languages, was discussed as a step toward more interpretable, human-like AI discovery.  
- Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan claimed her 2010 essays prefigured Neuralink-style brain–machine interfaces, sparking debate about idea ownership and citation in transhumanist discourse.  
- DIY COVID-19 vaccine efforts were spotlighted via a New York Times article, underscoring grassroots biohacking amid regulatory gaps.  
- Optical and mechanical signatures of action potentials—detectable via fiber reflectometry—were reviewed, with references to Tasaki’s decades-old work on membrane biophysics.  
- Discussion of TRIZ and “problem-solving as a transferable skill” critiqued mainstream education for teaching compliance rather than real-world problem solving.