- A mesh-network incentive scheme was debated: adlai favors rewarding real bandwidth contributions over localized “proof-of-data-ping-pong,” while fltrz cites Silvio Micali’s MIT paper “Fair Electronic Exchange” as a cryptographic basis for stochastic, postal-service-style per-byte or deadline-based payments.  
- kanzure circulated a post-mortem on cryptocurrency exchange breaches (https://medium.com/@magoo/learning-from-cryptocurrency-breaches-5493da06139c) and a Nature Communications paper on single-atom magnetic memory using orbital angular momentum (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06337-4).  
- Hong Kong’s abandoned 1990s semiconductor fabs were proposed as open-source hardware resources, with the LibreSilicon project (http://libresilicon.com/) highlighted as a community effort to revive older process nodes.  
- jrayhawk and Phil examined the immunological basis of schizophrenia via the tryptophan–kynurenine–quinolinic-acid pathway, NMDA hyper-activation, and a gluten-free-diet RCT in schizophrenics with anti-gliadin antibodies (https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/44/suppl_1/S190/4957532).  
- A 50–60 TB Sci-Hub corpus distribution protocol was sketched: start with a 1 GB USB cache, use reputation-based ladder exchanges that double the cache each time, and protect buyers with a cryptographic canary that withholds a secret if they are arrested.  
- Threat-modeling for the above protocol included GPS loggers, Wi-Fi tracking, Faraday cages, public locations, and even drone dead-drops, while git-annex was suggested as a technical distribution tool.  
- An open-source “list-bloat” PDF analyzer was proposed to flag oversized raster figures and suggest vector replacements, potentially shrinking the entire library to ~1 TB and undermining publishers’ use of bloated PDFs as a piracy deterrent.