- A drift issue in a stromlinet (scanning-probe) imaging system was documented with an Imgur overlay showing mis-alignment between successive scans; possible causes discussed include stage drift, calibration errors, analog-circuit hysteresis, and non-linear piezo motion that may vary with temperature.  
- nmz787 recounted designing the e-beam lithography workflow that produced the “ultramicroscopic Buddhist mantras” product from Norsam Technologies—converting digital calligraphy into a trillion-mantra pattern on a roll of film by modeling mantra density as a function of core diameter, outer diameter, and film thickness.  
- kanzure shared the Foresight Institute’s newly published historical timeline at https://staging.foresight.org/our-history/ as a reference for the community.  
- fenn raised the difficulty of reverse-searching early transhumanist stock imagery, posting two 2008-era “human cyborg enhancement” photos and asking for methods to locate their original public-domain sources, implicitly critiquing the decline of effective web search.  
- superkuh linked the satirical site http://googlesearchonlyreturns400results.lol/ to underscore frustration with modern search-engine limitations.