- A brief exchange questioned how DNA strands are delivered into cells via a micro-lance, noting uncertainty about whether the material is simply dropped into the cytosol or actively targeted to the nucleus.  
- SanDisk’s announcement of a 200 GB micro-SD card prompted jokes about “gluing” the fingernail-sized device under the skin, with the grinder community reportedly being “anti-glue.”  
- A Hacker News thread titled “Coding is not the new literacy” was shared, alongside a digital-signal-processing tutorial (jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals) and the $11.8 B semiconductor merger news.  
- Tony Prescott’s paper “The AI Singularity and Runaway Human Intelligence” (Springer chapter) was highlighted as a thoughtful contribution from a roboticist on long-term AI trajectories.  
- A whimsical but technically grounded discussion explored using natural fog as a planet-scale bioreactor: 25 µm droplets, ~56 k gallons of water per cubic mile of fog, and the possibility of exploiting persistent coastal fogs (e.g., Namib Desert) for massive parallel culture.  
- Practical objections raised included nutrient depletion in micron-scale droplets, difficulty retaining organisms, and the energy cost of maintaining cubic-mile fog volumes; alternatives such as aeroponics, fluidized beds, and up-draft balancing were suggested.  
- Atomic-absorption spectroscopy was cited for its high elemental specificity due to narrow absorption lines, with a note that spectral overlap between elements is extremely rare.  
- ArchiveTeam’s “INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK” project links were dropped as a resource for distributed preservation of the Internet Archive.  
- A “glass brain” fly-through visualization video (Gazzaleylab/SCCN/Neuroscapelab) was shared as an example of advanced neuro-imaging presentation.