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How Zora Turns Creators Into Tokens and Pays for Every Post

5 Jan 2026 2 minute read 9 comments alberdioni8406 $0.24

Some opportunities in the crypto world pass by us without us realizing it, largely because we are so anchored in our daily tasks or simply because no one showed them to us. Yesterday, while doing my usual browsing through my social media feeds, my at...

AI Slop, Algorithmic Loops, and the Quiet Loss of Human Taste

4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Andy Savage $0.35

We’re increasingly using AI to rank web pages, then using AI to tell us what to write so that those pages will rank well. People talk about “AI slop” as if slop were something new, as if a golden age of thoughtful writing has just been drowned by...

Proverbs of Smog #33

3 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.17

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Three 1. Come out with your hands down. 2. Release the clown. 3. Pickup the cup. 4. Go into town with your hands  5. Up. 6. The clown runs deep. 7. Put your bitchiness to sleep. 8....

Proverbs of Smog #32

1 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Two 1. I wash my hair in the laundrymart. I am the king of clothes. 2. I fold my subjects neatly. Television shirts are hanging by their dirtsleeves. 3. Honeybirds and bluebees; ma...

Proverbs of Smog #31

31 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-One  1. The vast, expansive landscape; the floor of a bloody, organic garage. 2. Candy wrapper skeletons; sugar bones melting in the heat. 3. Rattlesnake pomade; ocotillo hairbrush....

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 44

17 Dec 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04

Our promising stay here at the ever unpredictable Triads is cut short, however, before we’ve even really begun, this despite a capacity clientele, plenty of attractive options roaming the room, and even the joke slinging talents of Jeff beh...

A Weird Bit of Code

10 Dec 2025 4 minute read 1 comment rah $0.21

Following the generally positive reception to the last snippet I posted a couple of days ago. Here is a  little something else from earlier in the same novel. Just a bit of fun with "pointless" coding, but that is exactly the point. Don't try to figu...

A Snippet - A Plan - Tension Growing!

6 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments rah $0.37

Today it is Saturday so it is time to share something very different. This is a short section I wrote during some downtime yesterday for a novel I am working on (I am already twice-published through a traditional publisher and have three KDP short st...

Proverbs of Smog #26

5 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.11

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Six 1. Beware the homeless preacher blowing from the holy bubble beneath a halo of high, unsightly lions. 2. Take off your stylish sense of scorn; discard your sunglasses of thorns...

Proverbs of Smog #25

1 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Five 1. The wind is howling like a child. The dramatic, petulant gale. 2. If you catch an automated singer, nevermind the bus. Throw him under the poem. 3. The punch is spiked with...