• The post-scarcity / open-manufacturing / P2P-foundation community that flourished before 2008 is now described as a “Michel Bauwens mailing-list monologue,” having lost its earlier network of blogs and satellite lists after Bitcoin diverted attention and funding.  
• Participants proposed concrete next steps for abundance economics: self-replicating fab-labs and “smart cities that build cities,” while doubting that policy economists will ever pivot from theory to funding real hardware.  
• A Charles Stross quote on interpreters being “ideologically suspect” triggered a debate about capitalist semiotics embedded in software APIs and the need for better open-source language tooling.  
• High-impact biology papers circulated include programmable A•T→G•C base editing without double-strand breaks (Nature 2017), giant conductance pulses in αVβ3 integrin measured by STM, and the retraction of a Nature Nano paper claiming 50 kbp electrical nanopore sequencing via polymerase conductance.  
• Intel ME security flaws were highlighted via the CMU paper “Another bad thing,” and an AFM video of kinesin walking was shared as a canonical example of a molecular motor.  
• WebAssembly was promoted as a portable compute substrate, with a link to an “awesome-wasm” curated list, and an AI-assisted ELN (sciNote) that auto-drafts Methods/Results sections was noted as progress toward a universal experiment ontology.  
• Cord-blood banking logistics were debated: one parent had to threaten legal action to retrieve a child’s sample, while another argued storage is wasteful given future iPSC or nano-medicine options.  
• Joi Ito’s Scaling Bitcoin 2017 talk was summarized as “ICOs are cookie-jar theft; layer unbundling good,” with criticism that corralling dissenters into rooms merely silences online debate.