- David Pearce’s 2024 white-paper “Reprogramming Predators” (hedweb.com/social-media/reprogramming.pdf) was circulated, arguing for CRISPR-based herbivorization of carnivores as a path to eliminate wild-animal suffering.  
- Participants criticized Pearce’s companion ChatGPT shrine page (superhappiness.com/chatgpt) as SEO-driven LLM-worship that dilutes the core transhumanist message.  
- Discussion noted Pearce’s 1990s-era domain-name land-grab (~2,000 speculative registrations) and decades-long internet proselytizing for wireheading and “paradise engineering.”  
- A Panasonic press release was linked showing a bed-to-wheelchair morphing robot inspired by the anime Roujin-Z, framed as real-world gerontechnology catching up to speculative fiction.  
- Leo Nissola MD (CSO of 1BioResearch) announced what was billed as “the world’s first human-enhancement clinical trial” at Vitalia City; background vetting revealed prior cancer-immunotherapy trial experience but a personal website that participants found underwhelming.