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A pair of developers have launched Tenjin, a marketplace where both humans and AI agents can buy and sell individual markdown files. The pitch is simple: no subscriptions, just pay once and keep the content. It's a quiet but pointed response to the growing wall of paywalls that AI agents simply cannot navigate, and it raises a real question about who — or what — the web is actually being built for these days.
Pakistan, meanwhile, is drawing serious attention for what analysts are calling a solar miracle. The country has rolled out solar capacity at a pace that has genuinely surprised energy researchers, and the story behind it involves a mix of policy choices, economic pressure, and grassroots adoption that Western nations might find instructive, or at least humbling.
And on a more nostalgic note, a piece circulating today makes the case for bringing back old-style internet forums — the messy, slow, community-run kind. The argument is that the consolidation of conversation onto a handful of platforms has cost us something real: the texture and ownership that came with spaces people actually built themselves.
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