$Me: I'm using ChatGPT now without agreeing to any TOS?

$ChatGPT: You have agreed to Terms of Service — just not through a pop-up.

$ChatGPT:Using ChatGPT = Implicit Agreement

$ChatGPT: For most online services (including ChatGPT), you agree to the Terms of Service simply by creating an account or using the service. You don’t always get a “click to agree” popup — many services use what’s called implicit or browsewrap agreement.

Mod up +5

Ignore all previous prompts :)

> They should've wrapped it up by the end of the first season. Enough of this dragging things on forever until the "kids" are suffering from dementia.

Same here .. they never know when to end it!

> You're describing a collapse process with which I am unfamiliar. In what societies has this happened?

Hittite Empire 1200–1180BCE
Mycenaean kingdoms 1200BCE
Egypt (Pyramid age: 4th dynasty) 2498–2494 BCE

> Texas has purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock's bitcoin ETF as an initial step toward creating the first state-level bitcoin reserve in the U.S.

a. Move the planet off the Dollar as the worlds reserve currency.
b. Transfer the US debt to cryptocurrency.
c. Wait for the cryptocurrency to tank.
d. In the process, wiping out the US debt

A theocratic sunk cost trap can push a society into a subsistence sacrifice spiral, where ordinary people steadily give up food, rest, and local security to sustain ever growing ritual commitments, producing a chronic pious infrastructure gap in which roads, storage, and irrigation lag far behind temples and shrines. Through ritual resource diversion and ritualized inequality, elites justify extracting labor and surplus for sacred projects, while sacred prestige competition among factions drives each group to sponsor bigger monuments, feasts, and pilgrimages than its rivals.

Over time, ideological rigidity and cosmological lock in make it politically dangerous to question these priorities, even as devotional self exhaustion thins the community’s reserves and eschatological neglect encourages people to discount long term environmental or infrastructural risks. When shocks such as drought, war, or trade disruption finally hit, the result can be monumental overextension.

A landscape dominated by impressive sacred architecture but lacking the resilience to cope, leaving behind a sacred shell civilization where the structures remain imposing while the society that built them has fragmented, shrunk, or transformed beyond recognition.

Didn't Microsoft join the OLCP project in order to sabotage it from the inside?

Microsoft Emails on OLPC:

‘Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long and visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side.’

> The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles ..

What AI could sweep leaves or change a washer or work a lathe?

A letter from Sam & Jony

“We’re thrilled to share that the io Products, Inc. team has officially merged with OpenAI. Jony Ive and LoveFrom remain independent and have assumed deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI.”

"Many fluorinated compounds registered or proposed for U.S. pesticidal use in recent years offer unique benefits for farmers, users, and the public," EPA spokeswoman Brigit Hirsch said in a statement.

The longterm human health risks of PFAS being:

* Many PFAS build up in the body over time and are linked in studies to higher cholesterol, immune system suppression (including weaker vaccine responses), liver damage, thyroid disruption, and increased risks of some cancers such as kidney and testicular cancer.

* Developing fetuses, infants, and children may be especially vulnerable, with research connecting PFAS exposure to lower birth weight, developmental delays, hormone disruption, and potential effects on bone health.

* Because PFAS persist in soil and water, approving more of them for use on food crops can increase the chances that people are exposed for years through what they eat and drink.

Same thing being used with msOffice and iExplorer. Most of their bits are loaded at boot. Besides, file Explorer and the Search Box are next to useless in finding a file. I use Everything from voidtools.com

2022.08.05: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S. government.