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Adhithya K R's avatar

Love the idea! Should check out Coda. If it really works, I'm in. Btw, check out the short story "Shoulder-top secretary" by Hoshi Shin-Ichi. When I read the line:

With our translator, it might look something like this:

“I am trying to sell you a course.”

I laughed out loud, and it reminded me of that story.

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Andrew Henke's avatar

Somehow no mention of Substack? The notes section is literally littered with the worst form of it from every other platform. Brilliant idea btw

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No Dumb Ideas's avatar

It's in the footnotes! My notes page was full of bait when I first signed up; it's gotten a bit better with curation, but I definitely still see the occasional "Anyone else out here a good writer? Comment below!" post.

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Adhithya K R's avatar

Muting the offenders and liking posts you want to see more of helps a lot. But new ones still keep popping up once in a while.

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CJ's avatar

I heard this congressman on a podcast and I don’t fully understand his tax plan on attention https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-auchincloss.html but might kill some click bait. Your smart tell me

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Darreby Ambler's avatar

The Avocado story - aaackkkkk! Thank you for the cautionary tale!

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whenhaveiever's avatar

This sounds like the first steps in the Trust Assembly that Extelligence writes about.

https://extelligence.substack.com/p/trust-assembly

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