- A Reason podcast episode titled “Diana Fleischman: Are Designer Babies the Future?” was shared, framing the day’s discussion around the ethics and feasibility of human germline engineering.  
- A prototype “bio-silicon intelligence system” was reported to be “basically ready”; it couples a 1-D shuffleboard game with real-time digital signal visualizations that stream game metadata and player actions as binary output.  
- The same project is being expanded into a full software suite with a GUI, neuromimetic stimulation modules, and additional games; a short demo video (Discord link provided) shows the current script-based version in action.  
- The conversation implies an experimental pipeline in which simple game mechanics are used to generate and interpret neural-like data streams, potentially serving as a low-cost platform for testing hybrid biological-artificial learning systems.