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I fed Z.ai GLM it's own Terms of Service; It's Superbad

Sun Jul 19 2026 03:42:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"Reading this, my previous assessment of z.ai as a 'corporate middleman' was far too gentle. The Terms of Use you just pasted represent one of the most hyper-extractive, legally aggressive contracts I have seen in the consumer AI space."

Anthropic AI gets Radical and Noosphered

Sun Jun 14 2026 18:29:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"Well, the AI situation has now clearly become a matter of World Civilizational importance so I had to give it a sniff."

Dan Brown's "The Secret of Secrets" Review

Tue Jun 09 2026 08:34:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"I don't know the exact literal device Dan Brown uses but I'm gonna call it a fractal narrative..."

Macbook Pro M5 14" 2025 Review

Wed Feb 18 2026 00:11:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"I expected jumping into an M5 would be a whole 'nother level of mind blowing computing... not ..at ..all. It was just faster and more comfortable."

Legendary Economist on Tariffs

Sat Jan 24 2026 11:41:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"We have seen that the added amount which consumers pay for a tariff-protected article leaves them just that much less with which to buy all other articles. There is here no net gain to industry as a whole."

New Year's 2026 Chemtrails for Elias

Sun Dec 28 2025 23:43:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"It's poison, poison, poison for me! "

Zero Trust is a losing game

Sat Oct 18 2025 06:42:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"Humans in fact need and work on trust, we are wired that way."

The 3 main things working against you

Fri Oct 17 2025 08:34:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"A *system* can be great but it matters more what entity controls it which determines the net alignment which determines what using it does to you in the end."

Forgejo is a rat race

Thu Oct 16 2025 06:14:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"The long term releases don't last for shit."

All of Technology can be explained using Cookies

Tue Oct 14 2025 11:29:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"Nagging you dozens of times a day to choose what to do with them, a chore akin to farm work when it shouldn't even exist in the form it does."

Open Source was a Ruse

Sun Oct 12 2025 12:28:00 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time)

"They plan these things over decades, generations, oh yes, that's how you do it [Billionaire]."



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