- A short Russian satirical video titled “RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ) was shared, depicting a near-future rural setting where cows are tracked by QR codes and agriculture is fully digitized, prompting tongue-in-cheek commentary about “growing QR cows.”

- Discussion of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash led to concrete technical speculation on how a real metaverse could be built today, focusing on WebAssembly (Wasm) for safely sandboxed user code and WebGPU for high-performance, user- or server-defined shaders that would allow fully customizable VR environments.

- A second YouTube link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-olGT0ZEeo) was posted without additional context, leaving its relevance to the channel’s themes open to interpretation.