- Alcor Life Extension Foundation faces a lawsuit from the son of cryonics patient Laurence Pilgeram, who claims Alcor violated his father’s explicit wish for whole-body preservation by instead preserving only the head; the case threatens Alcor’s finances and could set precedent for future disputes.  
- Participants debate whether Alcor’s alleged breach of contract and subsequent evasiveness justify the son’s demand to cremate the preserved head, with some arguing that honoring the patient’s documented wishes is paramount.  
- Discussion highlights the fragility of centralized cryonics organizations: if Alcor collapses, patients’ long-term care depends on successor nonprofits like the Alcor Patient Care Trust or rival groups such as the Cryonics Institute.  
- To reduce systemic risk, kanzure proposes creating separate legal entities for each cryonics patient, preventing one person’s legal or financial issues from endangering others.  
- A DIY artificial-pancreas blog post (https://liamz.co/blog/im-a-cyborg-now-on-building-my-own-artificial-pancreas/) is shared as an example of open-source, body-augmenting medical technology.  
- Elsevier is noted for hypocritically linking to Sci-Hub while threatening others who do the same, underscoring ongoing tensions over open access to scientific literature.  
- nmz787 releases a Python wrapper for NIST’s Nanolithography Toolbox on GitHub (https://github.com/nmz787/CNST_Nanolithography_Toolbox), illustrating community efforts to open-source nanofabrication tools.