- A Forbes article titled “You Must Not Do Your Own Research When It Comes to Science” was circulated and critiqued; participants argued that evaluating scientific claims inevitably requires personal information gathering and that institutional knowledge can decay even among credentialed experts.  
- fltrz cited pooled COVID-19 testing as an example of lay insight rediscovering WWII-era methods, noting that a German institute attempted to patent the technique despite prior art.  
- Discussion highlighted the tension between “trust the experts” narratives and the reality that cross-disciplinary reading can yield valid technical insights outside one’s formal field.  
- lsneff and fltrz compared two Rust GPU projects: the Vulkano GLSL example versus Embark Studios’ rust-gpu compiler, clarifying that the latter enables writing GPU shaders directly in Rust.  
- fenn shared a YouTube link to an ESRGAN-upscaled 1080p remaster of the “Parasite Eve – Rat Transformation” cutscene, illustrating current AI super-resolution quality and its cinematic similarity to John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”