- The channel debated the anti-“designer baby” campaign at https://stopdesignerbabies.org/, with participants arguing that genetic engineering would increase rather than decrease human diversity and that legal bans would simply drive the technology underground.  
- Stephen Hsu’s claim that “100–200 common mutations… separate an ordinary person from a von Neumann” was circulated, along with links to his 2012 post “Only He Was Fully Awake” and a photo of Hsu with Richard Feynman.  
- A new participant, von-strauss, introduced a minimal cognitive-enhancement stack (melatonin, cardio, caffeine) and asked for deeper resources on treating and augmenting cognition.  
- fenn offered a list of candidate nootropics for brain repair: magnesium threonate, fish oil, choline, phosphatidyl-serine, lion’s mane mushroom, and propylene glycol, and linked some mental illnesses to inflammation and quinolinic-acid-mediated NMDA dysfunction.  
- nsh shared a one-liner workflow that unpacks Firefox’s compressed session-store JSON (recovery.jsonlz4) with dejsonlz4 and jq to create daily archives of open tabs, plus a more complex Python/SQLite variant.  
- nmz787_ described ongoing work on micro- or nano-scale “prayer wheel” text fabrication and hunted down a CT-scanning video showing the internal structure of a cake while it bakes, finally locating the footage from Campden BRI.  
- A side discussion compared shareholder-voting logistics: U.S. investors typically receive proxy materials by mail (often discarded), while Czech and Austrian shareholders must attend in person or grant power of attorney.