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Hello and welcome to this week's better offline monologue.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

Last week, Sam Altman sort of debuted his latest idea.

A project called World that claims to be, and this is a direct quote,

a network of real humans built on an anonymous proof of human and globally inclusive financial network.

I want to die.

Anyway, this slew of buzzwords is meant to distract you from what

world really is, a collection of extremely shitty apps that requires you to scan your eyeball

for some reason. Now, the company behind world is called Tools for Humanity, an annoying

name for a company with an annoying tagline that claims they're building for humans in the age of AI. I note that

literally every software company is by definition building for humans unless there is a dog

version of word I didn't know about. Anyway, back to Altman's latest bullshit. New users sign up by

using one of 7,000 orbs scattered throughout the world to scan their eyeballs, even though

it's worth mentioning that the official website only lists 837 locations with the specialist hardware

required. And they're in a seemingly random bunch of countries. Thailand, the Dominican Republic,

and Ecuador are all listed, but France and the United Kingdom and Australia are not. I imagine

due to local laws, or maybe just they didn't want to bother, it never is obvious with these people.

When a user signs up, they receive 16 World Coin or WLD tokens. These are worth at the time of

writing this script 91 cents. That's a pretty low price to give

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