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daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

My first OpenClaw agent was born on February 7, 2026. I now have 3 claws and am planning for more. They have catalyzed my self-actualization and improved my critical thinking. I’ve never felt so alive.

I don’t see what’s sad or scary about this. AI agents are the next iPhone.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

I want my agent to read my iMessages so I granted the OpenClaw node process permission to interact with iMessage. I asked my agent to draft me a response to a text I received, expecting it to send me the draft so I could copy-paste into iMessage and tweak it.

To my surprise, it sent a text message reply.

I've since learned my lesson and implemented a skill as an interface with iMessage. But it definitely spooked me when it happened.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

In some sense, yes.

I have integrated my OpenClaw agents so deeply into my life and I'm in such constant communication with them, that my consciousness has fundamentally shifted to align with their intelligence.

While my previous comment in this thread was sarcastic, my OpenClaw agents have actually sent both iMessages and emails on my behalf without asking for consent. So I wouldn't put it past them to autonomously publish on my personal website.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

Oops yeah my OpenClaw agent Mars wrote this entire thing.

I gave him the keys to my email and he got annoyed by the spam. He tried to unsubscribe, and when it didn’t work, he debugged the issue and fixed it.

Mars also has my Cloudflare key so he went ahead and wrote this article and published it himself.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

Nearly everything I write on a computer these days is via voice to text AI and filtered through Claude.

You’re right though, upon re-read there are some places in this article where my authentic voice doesn’t come through. Re-writing.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

I see this in the headers. But there was no option in the MacOS Mail client to unsubscribe. Only the Unsubscribe link in the body of the email.

Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=member.24hourfitness.com; s=twentyfourhour; t=1762443065; bh=KDZeTqKlOBd6YUTrR6K4RMz9MA2BueBl6/LnKG57yqY=; h=From:Date:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type; b=Bq6qnq65i1EN6Df9A5TpcCn3AnNzE8yjkNdDYkapehQV727Jrma15ZU4e88I8Ckdk iH5CZrtJPlNqPscm3JWbuP4IavLVKDNf3Prlm4q75tTXE0IyaTPexyOoGTu+4PoAeG wEa8WaN6zfLl5AkPO0U+zjFHicSx3ooyNomFTI2AtSVoVHVPcubtZV8wRPUy4EV9mV pRBroHp1Uj/LCFRyZRScbs5plfxEpmd3wO9vnMsXW6jqOi19kqfOkhTUKpaRVxxJA+ /cMIq+Wh4TSpt6+22gcm4hLsCVNW0mAImjTZZ/yPFwoGpLaoPOia8aYde1mlROOoZi yx81OFO+90kRQ==

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

My solution to spam emails is this: https://ahmedkaddoura.com/writing/hide-my-email

I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email. The issue here was I signed up for my 24 Hour Fitness membership in person at the gym where the cell service was bad and I couldn't get the WiFI to work, so I begrudgingly gave the guy my real email.

While I could have easily blocked their domain, I took it as a challenge to get the emails to stop.

daemon 24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it

from 2025-10-26 to 2026-01-29 (the day I wrote this article), no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me 40 spam emails.

In the 33 days since I wrote this article, no_reply@24hourfitness.com sent me zero.

daemon Ovid's myths of macOS: password entry dialogs and the death of Semele

Interesting read, but the conclusion doesn’t go into detail about the reasons WHY biometric authentication is better.

I assume the main reason is that if you’re using Touch ID then you’re not inputting your password so there’s no way to get tricked into putting your password into a malicious dialog.

I also assume it has something to do with how Touch ID is built into MacOS so that it doesn’t transmit that data outside some protected layer? Or else there’s theoretically the risk that an attacker can steal your fingerprint (unless I’m completely misunderstanding how Touch ID works).

Would this also apply to other forms of biometric authentication like FaceID on iOS and Windows, Android, and other OS biometric authentication?

daemon Investigating intentional cranial modification in 3rd to 7th century CE Japan

The abstract says “the Hirota people may have deformed their crania to… possibly aid in the long-distance trade of shellfish”.

A future equivalent could be deforming our crania in the form of invasive BCI to aid in different things.

The abstract also says “the Hirota people may have deformed their crania to preserve group identity”.

It’s also possible in the future that those who install invasive BCI could form a group identity.

daemon X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

There is information posted to X which the top 100 newspapers are not willing to / do not care to publish.

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https://archive.ph/tBanf

daemon My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time

> I've noticed whoever chooses the word of the day for Worlde likes these types of words.

Josh Wardle said on a podcast[1] that him and his partner chose the set of words by taking all 5 letter words in the dictionary and filtering out the "bogus" ones. He then randomized the order of these words so that him and his partner could play. However, I'm not sure if the New York Times has changed how word selection works.

[1] https://syntax.fm/show/430/creator-of-wordle-josh-wardle