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I Made $20,000 on Tomato. Then I Watched It Choose AI Over Writers.
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (897+ words) On September 7, Tomato released new rules. I was lurking in several writers’ groups. Messages came one after another. Some posted screenshots. Some cursed. Some said, “I’m done writing.” I checked my own dashboard. August earnings: 100 yuan. Around Chinese New Year,…...
PR RUNNING LEDGER — ISSUE 4
5+ hour, 39+ min ago (627+ words) Scaling is not a mystery. It is a discipline. Yet when brands fail to scale, observers often reach for the wrong explanations. They blame demographics, politics, or cultural alignment. They assume instability comes from who the brand attracts or repels....
7,000 Reviews. One Surprise.
12+ hour, 37+ min ago (756+ words) It was late, the house was quiet, and I had a cup of tea going cold beside me. On an impulse I opened the reviews for an app my team helps build and started reading. Not skimming for a rating....
Snow Crash and Babel: The Return of the Universal Language
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (112+ words) Jaynes, J. (1976) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Kramer, S.N. (1963) The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kramer, S.N. (1972) The Babel of Tongues: A Sumerian Version. Journal of the American…...
I Used Four AI Models to Write a 10,000-Word Article in One Night. Here’s What It Cost Me.
3+ day, 4+ min ago (468+ words) At 11:07 p.m. last Tuesday, I pasted a 10,000-word brief into my writing tool and hit go. Half an hour later, a red bar appeared: quota almost gone. I scrolled the draft. Correct. Boring. I deleted a sentence. Typed it again. Deleted…...
Stanislav Kondrashov on How Innovation Can Impose New Expectations Through Simpler Technology
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1100+ words) There is a curious pattern in technological history. The experience of using it often becomes simpler. Behind one button may sit thousands of operations. Behind a clean interface may be an elaborate technical architecture. A compact device may perform tasks…...
I Built a 256GB “E-Waste” AI Rig to Escape Token Fees. Here’s What Nobody Tells You.
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (531+ words) Many people say local deployment means token freedom. I ran mine for over half a year. Token freedom has three layers: physical, economic, and intelligence. The first two are free. The third is not. I have deployed DSV4F, DSV4F Exp, and Qwen3.8 27B locally....
I Tried GPT-Image-2.5: The AI Image Editor That Finally Learned What Not to Touch
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (1024+ words) The model is available to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users, including free users. Four changes matter: speed, edit accuracy, input methods, and two API models. Speed is only part of the release. Edit accuracy is the main change....
"You'll Be Missed!"
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (422+ words) I'm putting out my bi-monthly challenge late this time, mostly because I've been sick for over two weeks now and also because I just started teaching again, so a lot of work and responsibilities on these shoulders. But I wanted…...
Why Bare Metal Is Making a Comeback: Inside the Shift Away from Public Cloud
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (968+ words) You are not an outlier. IDC's Cloud Pulse 4Q 2023 survey found that close to half of cloud buyers spent more on cloud than they expected in 2023, and 59% expected the same overrun the following year. The direction of travel has shifted too....