• FreeCAD & open-source CAE conference announced for 1–3 March 2023 (registration link shared) as a focal point for open-hardware CAD/CAE tooling.  
• Seeed Studio’s 60 GHz mmWave radar module marketed for non-contact breathing/heartbeat sensing; participants debate whether similar radar could be used for low-resolution “remote CT” imaging of human organs.  
• Discussion of Robert A. Heinlein’s “Howard Families” concept—especially the idea of in-vitro–grown blood replacement as life-extension therapy—framed as an early fictional blueprint for current regenerative-medicine work.  
• Extensive critique of MIRI/LessWrong culture: claims that figures such as Ziz, Michael Vassar, and Brent Dill allegedly induce psychosis or suicide in susceptible members; housing-cost pressures in the Bay Area are cited as a structural amplifier of cult-like dynamics.  
• Reddit community “SneerClub” presented as an anti-MIRI/anti-rationalist hub; participants note its mixture of actionable criticism, tankie politics, and anti-tech sentiment, and share scraping tools (subreddit-archiver) for preserving its content.  
• Observation that e/acc (effective accelerationist) circles also oppose MIRI but for instrumental rather than ideological reasons, highlighting fragmented opposition to Yudkowsky-aligned AI-safety thought.  
• You.com’s YouChat highlighted as a no-login ChatGPT alternative; link circulated for quick AI text generation without authentication.  
• Hacker News thread on open-source software versus legal constraints referenced as relevant to biohacking and hardware-libre projects.