• A non-profit Indiegogo campaign is raising funds to manufacture pharmaceutical-grade MDMA and other psychedelics in Northern Europe, framed as the “best hplus” crowdfunding effort to date because the compounds have “provable, impactful” cognitive effects.  
• Discussion of micronations highlighted a persistent community failure mode: even highly interested newcomers rarely stick around, keeping total active membership at ~10–20 people regardless of outreach tactics.  
• Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Facebook post arguing that VCs are “stupid” for funding teams instead of ideas was dissected; participants countered that execution skill is the scarce, non-communicable asset VCs rationally pay for.  
• WayTools’ “TextBlade” ultra-portable keyboard was examined—its lithium-polymer space-bar battery, magnetic self-assembly, and claimed 196 wpm QWERTY compatibility (with n-key rollover for Plover steno) generated both enthusiasm and skepticism about real-world ergonomics.  
• The open-source CAD engine SolveSpace was praised for its NURBS-based Boolean operations and STEP export, but caveats were noted: some surface intersections still fall back to lower-quality triangle meshes, and exporting to OpenSCAD was derided as “using toilet paper to write down the secret of life.”  
• A brief debate explored whether blockchain proof-of-work could be repurposed for protein-folding computations; the consensus was that folded-protein conformations lack the easily verifiable, low-cost hash properties required for Nakamoto consensus.