• A Reddit thread on agorism and DIY bio-startups was circulated, promoting grassroots, institution-independent routes for launching biotech ventures.  
• An imminent-artificial-womb article from Motherboard/Vice was shared, foregrounding early ethical debates about ectogenesis technology.  
• NIH’s new 3-D Print Exchange was highlighted for open-source lab hardware: downloadable STL files include a cervical-spine model, 96-well plate adaptor, microscope dish adaptor, and detailed spinal-cord visualization.  
• nmz787_i described an in-progress KiCad-to-Octopart BOM helper that injects JavaScript into Octopart pages to automate part-number extraction and cart generation, alongside un-assembled GoodFET/FaceDancer11 boards for USB fuzzing.  
• kanzure questioned public-health policy for defaulting to “don’t share needles” instead of teaching proper needle sterilization techniques.  
• When asked about DNA-computing companies, kanzure argued that conventional silicon still outperforms DNA-based approaches by “light-year-length laps.”  
• Functional-programming Python libraries (fn.py, Toolz, Funcy) were collected as concise, composable tools for bioinformatics and lab-automation scripting.  
• Open-source stenographic keyboards—Stenoboard, Stenosaurus, and the StenoFW firmware—were showcased, with discussion of the need for a portable version.