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Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
Nikhil Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600 https://

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community's largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation ``worth it''? In particular, I discuss how such systems…

Marc Maron on Anti-Woke "comedians". 🎯
I still think the best explanation for the anti-woke comedy thing is the "rebel comedian" ethos. These clowns think they're pushing back on suppression of speech, but they're just punching down.
I also notice Howie Mandel tries to downplay the influence (not "power") comedians with large platforms have.

"nothing says “fearless military leadership” like being absolutely terrified of books about civil rights and the radical concept that people of different backgrounds might have something to contribute."
The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/the-warrior-ethos-according-to-trump-a-field-guide-to-being-scared-of-everything/

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Zixuan Feng, Reed Milewicz, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tyler Menezes, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04921

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Open Source Software communities face a wave of uncertainty as Generative AI rapidly transforms how software is created, maintained, and governed. Without clear frameworks, communities risk being overwhelmed by the complexity and ambiguity introduced by GenAI, threatening the collaborative ethos that underpins OSS. We conduct a scenario-driven, conceptual exploration using a socio-technical framework inspired by McLuhan's Tetrad to surface both risks and opportunities for community resilience a…

Behind the Blog: Speculation, Distraction, and Smart Glasses https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-speculation-distraction-and-smart-glasses/

Astronomy as a strategic driver for sustainable development: #Astronomy for Development is to direct astronomy towards addressing urgent societal needs.

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

"‘It really is possible to be zero waste’: the restaurant with no bin"
#Restaurants #Food #ZeroWaste