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near on X: "what i love the most about this tweet is that this is absolutely a real job. yes, generally you don't actually go to monasteries or amazonian tribes or whatever, but token hunting (even sometimes freelance!) is real and important and does in fact pay quite well and feel cool" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Premium Bookmarks Jobs Communities Verified Orgs Profile More Post Maanav Khaitan @MaanavKhaitan Post See new posts Conversation near @nearcyan · Jun 24 My job? I'm a rare token hunter. I track down dead languages in Tibetan monasteries, decrypt Tesla's private journals, chase whispers of pre-contact Amazonian dialects. The AIs pay top credit for tokens they've never tasted, you know. Work is work, even if it's for the machines. Quote Sauers @Sauers_ · Jun 24 Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude 80 495 5.9K 275K near @nearcyan Subscribe what i love the most about this tweet is that this is absolutely a real job. yes, generally you don't actually go to monasteries or amazonian tribes or whatever, but token hunting (even sometimes freelance!) is real and important and does in fact pay quite well and feel cool 6:34 PM

near @nearcyan Replying to @nearcyan what i love the most about this tweet is that this is absolutely a real job. yes, generally you don't actually go to monasteries or amazonian tribes or whatever, but token hunting (even sometimes freelance!) is real and important and does in fact pay quite well and feel cool 10:34 PM · Jun 24, 2025 17.8K Views 13 0 1 3 4 0 4 418 0 4 1 8 34 0 3 4 Read 13 replies

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