- Elsevier criticism: participants questioned why no dedicated anti-Elsevier blog exists despite the publisher’s size and controversial practices, suggesting academics are too busy with grant writing to organize sustained public critique.  
- Open-science data dump: kanzure shared a JSON file containing complete Pokémon Red/Blue map data (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/pokered/maps.json) as an example of liberated game assets useful for reverse-engineering and educational hacking.  
- Meta-mind project: Utopiah posted a link to http://www.meta-mind.de, a site exploring cognitive enhancement and mind-mapping tools relevant to transhumanist self-quantification.  
- Pokémon ROM-hacking progress: a pull request on Bitbucket (https://bitbucket.org/iimarckus/pokered/pull-request/4/celadon-city-map-header) shows active community refinement of disassembled game code, illustrating open-source collaboration on classic console software.  
- Academic overhead: uniqanomaly observed that researchers spend disproportionate time on grant applications and administrative forms, constraining their ability to engage in public advocacy or blogging against entities like Elsevier.