When Your AI Wastes My Money, I Should Get It Back (An open letter to Anthropic)

Posted to cksample.com — C.K. Sample III I use Claude in Cowork mode for a real project: building a photo critique and archive management tool for my photography business. It’s not a toy use …

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Building a photo management and critique tool using Claude.ai that I’ve been thinking of building...

I have a problem that a lot of serious photographers share: the backlog. Not a few weeks behind — a genuine, multi-year archive with over 10,000 shots sitting unreviewed. So I built a triage tool. …

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Happy to announce that the Colossal Foundation has secured an additional $50M in funding doubling our funding to help accelerate species preservation to now over $100M. More to come. prnewswire.com/news-releases…

The Colossal Foundation Doubles Funding to $100 Million to Prevent Mass Extinctions

/PRNewswire/ -- The Colossal Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit arm of Colossal Biosciences, the world's first de-extinction company, today announced an...

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27 Nov 2025

Happy Hot Tub #timemachine Thanksgiving

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23 Nov 2025

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16 Nov 2025

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16 Nov 2025

Remember when social media wasn’t just the same posts being resurfaced again and again by the algorithm users reposting them or recreating them? Yeah, me neither.