- Oregon became the first U.S. state to legalize psilocybin mushrooms for therapeutic use and simultaneously decriminalized personal possession of all “street drugs,” including methamphetamine and heroin, shifting the policy debate toward harm-reduction and cognitive-liberty models.  
- Denmark ordered the culling of its entire 17-million-mink herd after discovering a SARS-CoV-2 mutation that appears to escape neutralizing antibodies, raising fears that current vaccine candidates could be rendered less effective if the strain spreads.  
- Participants discussed the broader risk of zoonotic reservoirs, noting that ferrets (and by extension mink) are excellent respiratory models for humans, and speculated about undetected mutations in U.S. livestock.  
- Two open-hardware security devices were spotlighted: the Precursor mobile development platform (crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor) and the USB Armory Mk II (crowdsupply.com/f-secure/usb-armory-mk-ii), both aimed at verifiable, user-controlled computing.  
- A Reddit thread on Skynet (the Sia-based decentralized storage layer) was shared, focusing on how decentralized content-addressable systems might handle DMCA takedown requests and the implications for censorship-resistant publishing.