• A working transmission-electron microscope (TEM) was listed on a government-surplus auction for ≈ $5 k—about 1 % of typical MSRP—prompting discussion of who could acquire and house it for open-source research.  
• The Conboy lab’s 2020 paper “Rejuvenation of three germ-layer tissues by exchanging old blood plasma with saline-albumin” was highlighted, and participants debated whether DIY therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is feasible without medical-center cooperation, weighing sterile membrane filtration vs. repeated plasma donations.  
• Evidence that regular blood donors show 7–8 % lower five-year mortality (after matched controls) was cited, with speculation that iron reduction or other systemic effects might underlie the benefit; skeptics noted healthy-donor bias and the physiological cost of repeated whole-blood loss.  
• bunnie’s Precursor open-hardware PDA now ships a “Vault” password-manager mode; discussion centered on adding Bitwarden sync and whether Bluetooth HID output could securely auto-type credentials compared to USB keyboard emulation.  
• Tor onion-service v2 deprecation was noted: the oldest Bitcoin v2 onion is being shut down, and ~30 % of v2 resolution attempts now fail, underscoring the fragility of long-lived pseudonymous infrastructure.  
• Von Neumann’s 1956 monograph “Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components” and a modern UNM slide deck on fault-tolerant computing were shared as background reading for building resilient bio-cybernetic systems.