- Riffusion (https://www.riffusion.com/about) repurposes Stable Diffusion to generate music from audio spectrograms; early testers report poor prompt adherence and genre confusion, e.g., “bhangra banjos” yields jazz-like output.  
- Participants debate whether training on MIDI plus conventional sound-fonts and an AST-based melody “programming” approach would yield more controllable music generation than spectrogram diffusion.  
- ChatGPT is observed to parrot mainstream media talking points about He Jiankui’s gene-edited babies and fabricates DOI citations when asked for references.  
- A literature review of the He Jiankui case notes that Nature and JAMA rejected his manuscripts on “ethical” grounds, yet critics simultaneously condemned him for not publishing—highlighting a Kafkaesque dynamic in scientific gate-keeping.  
- Birth-defect prevalence (~1/33) versus IVF prevalence (~1/100) sparks discussion of possible selection bias in social-media narratives about gratitude for existence.  
- HTTP/3 (QUIC) implementations increasingly require CA-signed TLS certificates, effectively blocking self-signed servers and enabling “HSTS ransom” tactics by hosting providers.  
- Lifespan.io coverage of short vigorous activity reducing mortality is questioned for potential reverse causation—healthier people may simply be capable of such bursts.  
- Aging-biotech company landscape snapshot shared: https://agingbiotech.info/companies/static.html