- The FTX exchange collapse is discussed as a new Mt. Gox–scale disaster, with participants estimating monetary damages one or two orders of magnitude larger than Mt. Gox and noting Bitcoin’s 20 % price drop on the news.  
- kanzure shares the OpenTrons v2 Python API documentation (https://docs.opentrons.com/v2/) as a resource for automated lab robotics.  
- Participants speculate about an “Emerald Cloud Lab” Terraform module and note that Emerald Science already maintains a Terraform provider for Auth0 (https://github.com/emeraldsci/terraform-provider-auth0).  
- A science-fiction scenario prompts discussion of how non-genetically-modified humans could compensate for sleeplessness by cultivating lucid-dreaming cultures that harvest creative insights from dreams.  
- superkuh links the 2021 Current Biology paper “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026) and mentions galantamine as a lucid-dream induction aid.  
- jrayhawk frames REM sleep as an adaptive dopamine flood that tests overconfident predictive models under low-signal conditions, questioning whether lucid dreamers who dwell on concepts too long might impair waking application of those concepts.  
- L29Ah raises the concern that intensive lucid-dream practice could reduce waking memory capacity due to incomplete rest.  
- The global population reaches 8 billion, prompting brief reflection on the milestone.