- A paper in Physical Review X (DOI 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031014) describes a bacterial liquid-crystal display whose living medium can be “phage-dusted” to reclaim the biomass as carbohydrate paste, prompting discussion about whether the bacteria are merely a research tool for studying liquid-crystal physics or a route to edible, self-repairing screens.  
- Participants debated the spam-vs-content boundary in channel logs, with one side arguing that even borderline links contaminate archives and another cautioning against over-aggressive deletion that could erase legitimate discourse.  
- A set of lightweight HTTP testing/inspection services—requestbin.net, hookbin.com, postmanlabs/httpbin, and reqbin.com—was shared as handy tools for debugging web hooks and APIs.  
- News surfaced that fusor.net, a long-running amateur fusion forum, is showing signs of revival after extended downtime and database errors, raising hopes that its technical archives will soon be back online.  
- Archive Team’s comprehensive web-scraping efforts were invoked as a possible fallback for recovering any lost fusor.net content, illustrating the community’s reliance on distributed preservation.