- A user shared a Chinese-language Docker tutorial repository (https://github.com/widuu/chinese_docker) as “hard mode,” highlighting the channel’s interest in multilingual technical resources.  
- LabCures, a crowdfunding platform that claims to fund only “verified University and Institute non-profit research facilities,” was ridiculed as “a pile of fuckheads,” underscoring skepticism toward centralized, credential-based science funding.  
- Discussion of process-injection tools: kanzure asked for a lightweight alternative to IDA-Python for injecting into non-Python processes, similar to Google’s Pyringe but usable outside Python.  
- DIY x-ray enthusiasm: chris_99 linked a YouTube video of an Arduino-controlled DIY x-ray CT scanner, prompting brief interest in home-built imaging hardware.  
- Cancer-model animal sourcing: participants debated how Jackson Laboratory reliably supplies cancerous rats and mice, concluding that most researchers inject tumor cells themselves using protocols like the one at bio-protocol.org.  
- A fresh rat-blood surplus was offered (and declined), illustrating the casual bio-material barter culture in the channel.  
- ParahSailin reported success auto-generating Haskell FFI bindings for libgit2 via header parsing and hsc2hs, showing ongoing work on language interoperability tooling.  
- Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codex post “An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology” was shared, with the channel mocking the excuse “I didn’t read the Russian paper because I don’t speak Russian.”  
- jmil’s move from academia to industry was noted via his new venture The Sugar Lab (3-D printed sugar), prompting discussion about career paths in open/transhumanist circles.  
- Reddit foot-traffic was observed after the channel appeared in a Reddit IRC recommendation list, hinting at growing mainstream visibility.