Nobody agrees what "carbon neutral" means for a rack
Two hosts try to price one rack-year of emissions and cannot get two sources to agree on the boundary. Lands on the honest position: the disclosure format is the story, not the number. No policy recommendation, no vendor named.
Six minutes on dashboards that are always green. Strong closer. Two lines trip the standing privacy rules and must be cut or rewritten — that is why approval is off.
"…my old employer had a dashboard that…"
Rule: no employer, no associates, no family, no age. Rewrite as an unnamed generic.
No publish slot until it clears
003Field Notes$0.06 · 13:44 rendered · overnight / local qwen
The frame you did not take
Drafted overnight on the local model for $0, then read in the cloned voice. Quiet register, no co-host. Whisper-back QA diff is clean and the disclosure line is present in the render, not just the notes.
✓Pronunciation lexicon applied — "RAI" → "R A I"
✓Whisper-back diff: 0 word errors
✓AI-voice disclosure present in-audio
Publish slot Thu 28 Aug · 08:00
CThe governorreview debt, not dollars
Generation paused
3 pending approvals — the limit is 3. Nothing new gets queued until one clears. Dollars were never the scarce thing.
Minutes of review per published minute
1.8×
Floor 1.0× — below it, "listened in full" stops being true and the attestation is the liability. 30-day rolling.
Secondary — spend by tier
Tier
Model
$/M in · out
Per episode
Overnight
qwen2.5-coder:32b · local
$0 · $0
~$0 + hours
Cheap
GLM-4.6 · OpenRouter
$0.43 · $1.75
$0.05–0.15
Standard
Claude Sonnet 5
$3 · $15intro $2/$10 expires 8/31
$0.30–0.60
High
Claude Opus 5
$5 · $25
$0.75–1.50
Signature
Claude Fable 5
$10 · $50
$2–4
August$3.71of $12 cap · render $0 · art $0.13/ep
DFleet hooksskill: podcast-generate
GiaSignal · Telegram — skill v0.3 installedready
MiaBlob queue watcher · Chatterbox renderheld by governor