- A brief exchange revisited the classic “Dyson sphere vs. Dyson swarm” terminology, noting that Freeman Dyson’s original 1960 paper already described a swarm of discrete collectors rather than a solid shell, and suggesting the community simply adopt “Dyson sphere” as the generic term for any large-scale stellar-energy harvesting architecture.

- kanzure shared the SomaFM Mission Control ambient music stream (http://ice1.somafm.com/missioncontrol-128-mp3) as background listening for late-night hacking sessions.

- The ASCII Math live editor (http://asciimath.org/) was highlighted as a lightweight tool for quickly typesetting mathematical notation; c0rw1n subsequently promoted it in two LessWrong chat channels.

- A Hacker News thread on the ACIS/CGM CAD kernel licensing drama (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483007) was circulated as relevant reading for anyone working on open-source or low-cost mechanical CAD pipelines.