- Tim Schmidt and Josh Cryer discussed replacing Thingiverse with an open-source alternative, focusing on STL-to-POV rendering pipelines and the licensing issues of POV-Ray versus YafaRay.  
- Kanzure proposed a QR-code standard for open-source hardware documentation and shared links to alternative scholarly metrics (altmetrics.org) and open peer-review extensions for arXiv.  
- A French H+ conference cited kanzure (Bryan Bishop) as an example of biohacking and rapid-prototyping culture countering an AI-centric view of transhumanism.  
- Channel members debated optogenetics: kanzure noted prior mouse-movement control by Boyden and Anselm, questioning why worm-squirming demos were still newsworthy.  
- Josh Cryer argued wage slaves avoid “empty causes” lacking near-term returns, framing it as rational time-allocation rather than rat-race dedication.  
- QuantumG linked the Dunning-Kruger paper, summarizing that the least competent overestimate their ability while the highly competent underestimate themselves.  
- Kanzure showcased JavaScript visualization libraries (RaphaelJS, three.js, arbor.js) for interactive graphs, seeking UI feedback for theuncertainfuture.com rewrite.  
- Links to lunar-mining feasibility, maker-business rules by Chris Anderson, and Ed Boyden’s optogenetics talk were circulated as relevant background material.  
- Ikiwiki configuration issues on gnusha.org/skdb/ led to spurious merges and missing commit history; jrayhawk and kanzure debated whether to clean them up.