- GE’s portable ultrasound device has dropped from $7,000 to $3,500, making point-of-care imaging more accessible for biohackers and field diagnostics.  
- A 100-page Medium post by SENS-associated researcher Yuri Deigin (https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-lens-of-gain-of-function-research-f96dd7413748) argues that SARS-CoV-2 shows hallmarks of laboratory engineering; channel participants debate the evidence but agree the origin debate is largely orthogonal to pandemic response.  
- Participants discuss assassination markets as a mechanism to “fix capitalism,” noting that current designs rely on centralized human evaluators and are vulnerable to single-point failures; decentralized, reputation-based trustee systems are proposed but questioned for Sybil resistance.  
- WHO COVID-19 data releases are criticized for burying raw numbers in buzzword-heavy PDFs; one participant began writing a scraper to extract epidemiological tables and calls for a “just the numbers” feed.  
- DNA data storage is weighed against diamond and spintronic alternatives: DNA offers theoretical density and millennia-scale half-life (50,000 years at 25 °C in DNAshell encapsulation) but suffers from high bit-error rates and slow, dilute-sample access; HDDs and diamond ablation are argued to be more practical.  
- A Nature Materials review (nmat4594) and a bioRxiv preprint (2020.05.25.115477) are shared as state-of-the-art references on DNA storage and random-access retrieval using primer-based search.  
- Channel members note that the 1998 film “Soldier” (written by Blade Runner co-writer David Peoples) is considered a spiritual successor set in the same universe, offering a pop-culture lens on genetically-enhanced soldiers.