- A tweet thread on voluntary-sterilization incentive programs was shared, linking both a general Twitter discussion (sentientist/status/1624658999772602370) and the long-running U.S. non-profit Project Prevention (projectprevention.org) that pays people with substance-use disorders to undergo long-term contraception or sterilization.  
- Discussion briefly turned to the ethical permissibility of such payments and whether the same logic could be extended to “paying stupids,” highlighting an ongoing tension in the channel between eugenic-adjacent policies and open-transhumanist values.  
- A Current Biology paper (DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01906-6) was highlighted showing that object-location memories lost after sleep deprivation could be pharmacologically recovered in mice with an already-FDA-approved small molecule, implying off-label cognitive-restoration possibilities.  
- A teardown video of the 454 Life Sciences/Roche GS-FLX pyrosequencer (YouTube: LMCxR2Gaixc) was posted, continuing the channel’s interest in open-source reverse engineering of legacy high-throughput sequencing hardware.  
- The “NanoPutian” Wikipedia page was linked as a tongue-in-cheek reference to anthropomorphic nanoscale molecules, illustrating the community’s habit of mixing hard science with playful memes.  
- A tweet by kliu128 summarizing “current operational AI safety constraints” was circulated, providing a concise snapshot of contemporary alignment practices without further elaboration in the log.  
- A poll shared via MichelleNMeyer’s Twitter (status/1623759746250469377) indicated improving public sentiment toward human gene enhancement, framed by the poster as “polls are looking good.”