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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money - podcast

time: 6 min 57 sec

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 20 hours ago

watching the saltman interview (in this frame) is…so much worse

I was planning to get drunkwatch it but I haven’t really had the headspace to get that mad this week