- A new documentary, “Make People Better,” was released on Amazon Prime and makepeoplebetterfilm.com; it revisits the He Jiankui CRISPR-babies controversy and features George Church’s “transhumanist wish list” of genes for super-powers.  
- lkcl outlined an open-source, ultra-lightweight hybrid-EV build: a geodesic frame of 21.5 mm PVC pipe wrapped in 3 layers of 4 mm Kevlar/FR4 resin, with sofa-grade fire-resistant polyester panels, bamboo lattice, and expanding foam—aiming for Category L7e “heavy quadricycle” compliance.  
- kanzure proposed an evolutionary experiment: serially culture Mycoplasma genitalium between two flat slides while progressively reducing the gap from ~200 nm down to 1–5 nm, hypothesizing that extreme 2-D confinement could select for ultra-flat, highly ordered cellular machinery and deterministic protein positioning.  
- A wide-ranging debate on AI-generated art unfolded: participants argued that human artists already rely on opaque computational tools, that “derivative” claims against AI ignore how human memory works, and that watermarking (e.g., GMIC’s Fourier-transform method) is a practical mitigation rather than a ban.  
- Links shared include Antonio Regalado’s Twitter thread on the documentary, a review on prime editing in mammals, Stack Overflow’s new anti-GPT policy, DoNotPay’s ChatGPT bot negotiating Comcast bills, and Whisper-as-a-service deployment notes.