- The channel discussed the Aptera 2 Series electric three-wheeler (presented at TED 2009) as a model for DIY electric-vehicle conversions and noted plans to electrify small pickup trucks.  
- A design-automation thread explored “ghost” placeholders in function structures, range-compatibility between component ports, and the risk of value drift when mating parts have overlapping but unequal operating ranges; kanzure posted a sketch of possible range-relation cases.  
- Links to open manufacturing resources were shared: the mirrored “Manufacturing automation” page on AcceleratingFuture, Bryan Bishop’s 2008 ADL presentation (PPTX), and Campbell’s DETC-2007 slides on automated design.  
- DIYbio participants considered purifying restriction enzymes at home via histidine tagging and debated how to assay purity and activity without commercial standards.  
- Nootropic self-experiments: ybit reported first-day results with 600 mg adrafinil (slower onset, shorter duration than modafinil) and linked Bostrom’s cognitive-enhancement ethics paper.  
- katsmeow-afk asked about assistive tech to enforce sleep onset at designated times, prompting discussion of countermeasures to stimulant use.  
- kanzure collected mesh-generation papers from Frey’s site, R distribution packages, and PDDL-based sentence-planning tools while trying to turn generated PDDL solutions into actionable language.  
- Server issues: the heybryan.org mailing-list archive and wiki returned 404s because the MySQL database was offline; kanzure noted the data were on another machine.