- Blender-MCP, a new Model Context Protocol server for Blender, was shared as a way to let LLMs drive 3-D workflows; participants debated whether current AI-generated meshes and textures are still too “sloppy” for production but agreed they speed early concept iteration.  
- A “soul-ripper photo-booth” concept was proposed: snap a few smartphone photos of a friend and automatically yield a rigged, textured, WebGL-ready avatar for real-time dancing or rag-doll physics, with Mixamo, Auto-Rig Pro, and Godot’s web export floated as low-friction pipelines.  
- Two new web services—VibeRig (text- or image-to-rigged character) and Hyper3D.ai/OmniCraft (image-to-PBR textured mesh)—were linked as promising but untested shortcuts for the above workflow.  
- MolecularTransformer was mentioned as an active side project for SMILES-based reaction prediction, illustrating ongoing open-source cheminformatics work in the channel.  
- A participant with 25 years of circus-performance and 3-D-animation experience described plans for a Vermont lab focused on mushroom research and hyper-local trash-to-material recycling, paralleling another member’s Oregon lab build-out.  
- The group critiqued the encroachment of “crypto / AI-bro capitalism” on transhumanism, arguing that Bitcoin’s value remains fiat-coupled and that cryptocurrency failed to create an alternative value system.  
- OpenAI’s sudden ability to generate accurate, publication-ready medical diagrams from a single prompt was highlighted, with an example antivenom-manufacturing illustration shown; participants predicted that on-demand AI-generated visuals will collapse the traditional distance between expert knowledge and learner comprehension.  
- The educational implications were debated: if ASI can instantly produce perfect diagrams and 3-D videos, the bottleneck shifts from content scarcity to learner motivation, raising questions about the future role of human teachers.