- Elsevier’s legal action forced the shutdown of the main Sci-Hub domain (sci-hub.io), prompting the community to circulate a list of working mirrors (sci-hub.cc, .ac, .bz, .onion) and the direct IP 31.184.194.81 to keep access alive.  
- Participants discussed the difficulty of mirroring Sci-Hub’s full 50+ TB corpus; torrent swarms have too few seeders (>300-day completion estimates), while seedboxes (e.g., FeralHosting) can pull ~1 TB/day once good peering is established.  
- Suspicious behavior was noted on LibGen torrents: Indian and Chinese IPs connect, download only a few kilobytes of metadata, and disconnect—possibly evidence of single-paper WebTorrent-style interfaces.  
- A Bitcoin donation address (1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM) continues to be promoted as the primary way to fund Sci-Hub’s hosting and bandwidth.  
- The Levytator, a curved, free-form escalator concept, was shared as an example of novel transportation hardware that could influence future human-centric infrastructure.