- He Jiankui, the scientist who created the world’s first gene-edited babies, has reportedly resurfaced in Beijing with a US$7.2 million government-funded project to build a DNA synthesizer, claiming its primary use will be for DNA-based information storage rather than human germline editing.  
- South China Morning Post coverage and kanzure’s tweet thread (with gwern and hsu_steve) debate whether He can legally or practically resume human-genome work under China’s strict new regulations, versus pivoting to storage or other applications.  
- A viral Weibo post attributed to He Jiankui asserts that the Chinese population lacks the DRD4-7R “aggression” allele, framing this as a genetic basis for Chinese “peacefulness” and implicitly criticizing other populations; participants (fenn, jrayhawk, maaku) quickly flag it as scientifically dubious and racially charged.  
- Steve Hsu supplies links to recent polygenic-score (PGS) literature (blog posts on genomic prediction of social traits and height, plus arXiv paper “From Genotype to Phenotype: polygenic prediction of complex human traits”) to counter claims that embryo screening for “genius” traits is mere marketing.  
- Discussion of DRD4-7R references SNPedia’s entry and notes that the 7-repeat variant is a VNTR, not a simple SNP, highlighting the technical nuance often lost in popular narratives.  
- Stable Diffusion community drama (“Unstable Diffusion” Reddit thread) is briefly noted, with kanzure expressing concern over “waifu diffusion” misuse.  
- kanzure shares a retro-tech satire video (“SANS ICS HyperEncabulator”) and a synthwave trading-music mix, illustrating the channel’s blend of hard science and cyber-culture humor.