- A 2012 Ars Technica article on the micronation Sealand and its failed data-haven venture HavenCo was circulated as historical context for extraterritorial tech projects.  
- Two legacy PGP-based digital-timestamping services—zeitgitter’s “pgp-digital-timestamper-timestamped-archive” on GitLab and itconsult’s “stampinf” page—were highlighted as archival tools for long-term commitments.  
- Participants debated whether cryptographic commitments made with obsolete hash functions can be migrated to modern ones, suggesting a zero-knowledge proof that demonstrates preimage equivalence across old and new hash functions as a possible solution.  
- Eliezer Yudkowsky’s LessWrong post “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities” was shared and critiqued; the channel argued that both extreme doom scenarios and utopian visions are conceivable, but endless doomsaying is unproductive and distracts from constructive work.  
- A free, open-source “Personal Genome Bioinformatics Workshop” (https://dna-seq.github.io/dna-seq/workshop/) was recommended for hands-on genomics education and DIY bioinformatics training.