- A tongue-in-cheek wish-list for a “morally unworthy livestock giant platypus” that would combine duckweed-to-bacon conversion, milk, eggs, waterproof fur, and antibacterial venom—highlighting the perennial transhumanist dream of radical bio-engineered chimeras.  
- Discussion of crop (pigeon) milk as an unexpected non-mammalian nutrient source, with participants weighing cultural disgust versus curiosity and noting that even a five-year-old had already discovered the phenomenon.  
- A $2.4 million Nintendo settlement against Switch-emulator developers was flagged as a cautionary tale for open-source reverse-engineering projects.  
- Ongoing LK-99–inspired room-temperature superconductor research attracted a reported $3 billion in Korean investment, yet attendees of the latest presentation were disappointed that no physical sample was shown and the evidence remains “sketchy.”  
- Hackaday’s “High-Vacuum Hack Chat” was shared as a resource for DIYers pursuing low-cost, high-performance vacuum systems relevant to materials science and bio-hardware prototyping.