- Emily Gorcenski’s post on period-tracker privacy fears is cited as evidence that the U.S. urgently needs a comprehensive data-protection law, highlighting how mainstream users are finally confronting the impossibility of keeping data that passes through modern cellphones private.  
- Participants note that $5 k and $10 k price tags for certain medical or tracking services are both “ludicrous,” underscoring cost as a barrier to personal health-tech adoption.  
- A life-expectancy graph shared by L29Ah shows a 15-year gain since 1970 in some regions, prompting debate over whether the improvement is chiefly an artifact of better infant-care rather than broad longevity gains.  
- The Computer History Museum visit is critiqued for exhibiting non-functional hardware and for narrative gaps—e.g., the jump from mechanical computers and paper-tape processors to planar semiconductor circuits is left unmotivated, and the Intel 8008 appears to be missing from the display.  
- Fenn argues that merely preserving dead hardware is inferior to an “imaginary” living museum where visitors could actually boot CP/M or play Space Invaders, noting that setting up such emulations today is non-trivial.