- Celmatix has filed a $100 million lawsuit against 23andMe, alleging breach of an exclusive 10-year agreement that barred 23andMe from collaborating with any rival fertility/infertility companies.  
- Discussion framed the suit as evidence that “there’s another man,” i.e., 23andMe may have begun working with a competitor in the reproductive-genomics space.  
- Malvolio initiated a conversation on whether typographic or symbolic transformations—color-coding parts of speech, substituting symbols, or using shorthand—can measurably improve reading speed or comprehension.  
- maaku cited prior research: Chinese logographic reading is faster than phonetic scripts, color-highlighted text outperforms plain text, but shorthand accelerates writing, not reading.  
- lsneff speculated that early, rudimentary neural interfaces might provide text-augmentation shortcuts long before full brain-computer interfaces arrive.  
- kanzure queried Wikipedia entries for Nikita Kamaev and Grigory Rodchenkov, key figures in the Russian doping-scandal whistle-blowing narrative.  
- A Unicode working-group document on Duployan shorthand (L2/2010/10272r2) was shared as background on symbolic writing systems.