- A participant asked for a better venue to discuss “auxons” (self-replicating machine systems), in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), and related topics; kanzure suggested the openmanufacturing mailing list as an alternative to IRC.

- CryptoQuick shared the RepRap blog post announcing “Prusa Iteration 2,” the next version of the open-source 3-D printer design, highlighting ongoing progress in distributed, self-replicating hardware.

- kanzure posted a link to the working paper “The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls” (Bessen, Ford & Meurer), which uses stock-market event studies to estimate that NPE (“patent troll”) lawsuits destroyed roughly half a trillion dollars in defendant wealth from 1990-2010, mostly from technology companies, and argues the effect is a net loss rather than a transfer to small inventors.

- kanzure also provided links to the “Workshop on Innovation and NPEs” at Boston University, including the list of confirmed speakers and the repository of papers, abstracts, and slides for further reading on patent-reform research.

- Late in the log, kanzure circulated a direct download link to a recorded talk on “connectomics” (eugen.leitl.org/RecordedSession-2011-11-13-1913-33.mp4), indicating ongoing interest in brain-mapping and whole-brain emulation within the channel.