- Discussion of Kanzi and Panbanisha bonobo language-comprehension videos, highlighting the apes’ apparent understanding of novel sentences and passing false-belief tests, while criticizing the experimental setup for introducing unnecessary moral dilemmas and power imbalances that may provoke violent reactions in captive apes.  
- Observation that experimenters sometimes wear welder masks to avoid giving unintentional cues to the apes, and speculation that Kanzi preemptively selected the jelly jar before the spoken request.  
- Brief mention of a U.S. General Services Administration auction of Litecoin (LTC) as a possibly novel event for government surplus sales.  
- Debate over GNU Make’s design: participants argue that requiring literal tab characters for recipe indentation is counterintuitive, discuss work-arounds such as .RECIPEPREFIX and Ctrl-V insertion, and reference the vim-sleuth plugin for automatic tab/space detection.