• A pocket-sized VOC sensor capable of detecting ~350 volatile organic compounds was identified; participants proposed integrating it with facemasks to monitor exhaled metabolites as a non-invasive window into internal physiology.  
• A technical debate unfolded on modern JavaScript build tooling: gulp+browserify was praised for simplicity, while a 14-step Grunt pipeline (clean, harp, filerev, usemin, aws_s3, etc.) was shared as an example of current complexity; migration to Om—a ClojureScript React wrapper—was advocated for both performance and functional-programming ergonomics.  
• Supporting evidence for Om’s performance claims was provided via Vue.js benchmark links and gists comparing class-based versus functional Angular controllers, with additional praise for Python’s readability.  
• The paperbot service returned from downtime and demonstrated continued open-access infrastructure by retrieving paywalled Elsevier articles through libgen and diyhpl.us mirrors.  
• Upcoming transhumanist-relevant films were discussed, including “Her” (with a live reaction to the uncanny valley at minute 77), “Transcendence,” Terry Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem,” and Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac.”  
• Scientific American and gwern.net links on nicotine’s cognitive-enhancing and neuroprotective effects were circulated, with anecdotal reports of favorable subjective experience using e-cigarettes for nicotine without tobacco.