- A debate on open science proposed replacing traditional peer-review with an “informed democracy” in which each participant’s vote on scientific claims is weighted by their demonstrated ability to reproduce the strongest counter-arguments, aiming to make the review process transparent and continuously updatable.  
- Participants argued that such a system risks drowning science in noise, is vulnerable to cult-like manipulation, and conflates democratic preference with scientific truth; defenders countered that formal, metamath-style mechanized argumentation could still be used for non-ethical questions.  
- An audio-frequency “op-amp circulator” design was discussed as a way to achieve true full-duplex operation with a single loudspeaker—simultaneously playing and recording—by exploiting 60 dB isolation figures at low frequencies, with the immediate application of capturing otoacoustic emissions.  
- The channel shared links to new DIYhpluswiki transcripts: Jonathan Metzman on structured fuzzing (Black Hat 2019), Christopher Jeffrey on the Bcoin JavaScript Bitcoin implementation (SF Bitcoin Meetup 2016), and Jeffrey again on consensus pitfalls (Breaking Bitcoin 2017).  
- A new Lightning-Network key-management paper titled “Battlement: A quorum-based design for Lightning network key management” (2020) was circulated for review.  
- Security discussion covered the fragility of the OpenPGP keyserver ecosystem (only MIT and SKS pools still standing, plus the newer hkps://keys.openpgp.org), the mechanics of verifying Tor Browser binaries, and the value of Bitcoin Core developer keysigning parties.  
- A critical video on BrightOcular’s iris-implant procedure sparked a broader conversation about cosmetic body modification, medical over-regulation, informed consent, and the ethics of “anything-goes” leagues for both sports and human enhancement.  
- Participants explored extreme performance-enhancement cases—such as elective leg amputations to use carbon-fiber sprinting blades—and questioned whether such interventions offer real functional gains or primarily serve psychological and aesthetic motives.