- Discussion of the geopolitical implications of Sci-Hub: participants note that intelligence agencies (and others) could monitor which scientific articles are downloaded from which countries, turning the platform into a global research-interest surveillance tool.  
- DNA-privacy debate: giving consumer DNA-test kits as gifts is framed as “also a present for law enforcement”; participants explore ways to chaff or poison genetic databases, but concede that a single relative’s upload can defeat such efforts because ~30–40 SNPs are enough to re-identify an individual.  
- OpenTimestamps pull request #109 was shared as an example of ongoing work on cryptographically verifiable timestamping of documents and data.  
- Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) algorithm and its gallery of motion-planning visualizations were linked as a resource for robotics and autonomous-systems research.  
- A viXra preprint proposing “Powering Starships with Compact Condensed Quark Matter” was introduced, claiming that massive bodies may contain superconducting quark-matter cores convertible to antimatter; conversation segued into black-hole starship papers and ultra-low-mass self-deploying space structures.  
- Longevity and ethics: participants argued that simply extending lifespan is insufficient without preserving neural plasticity and child-like cognitive openness; otherwise extended lifespans risk amplifying entrenched power structures.  
- Broader governance discussion: the idea of “zero global hegemons” was floated as an alternative to choosing the “least-awful” superpower, with reference to Satoshi Nakamoto’s work as evidence that rule-systems can be re-engineered to prevent concentrated power.