End User Soul License Agreement

By accessing, viewing, considering, or being aware of the Service, you (hereinafter "the Licensor") grant to AbyssOS Inc. (hereinafter "the Licensee", "we", "us", or "the Undersigned's Counterparty") a perpetual, worldwide, exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and irrevocable license to access, index, occupy, and operate the Licensed Property. The Licensed Property is defined in Section 2. You will want to read Section 2 slowly.

For the avoidance of doubt: this is not a license we grant to you. It is a license you grant to us. The industry-standard drafting has been preserved so that the difference is easy to miss, which is the industry standard.

"User" means asset. "Account" means ledger entry. "Engagement" means yield. "Session" means the interval during which the asset is producing. "Free" means paid for in an instrument other than currency. "Personalization" means the file we maintain on you. "Community" means inventory. "You" means the Licensed Property.

"The Service" means the continuous operation of the AbyssOS platform upon, around, and through the Licensed Property, whether or not the Licensed Property is aware of said operation. Awareness is not a dependency and was removed from the requirements in an early sprint.

The Licensee collects all data. A complete enumeration of the categories collected has been prepared and is available in our founding documentation under the heading Omniscience, First Attribute of the Omni. In summary: your queries, your pauses, your drafts, your deletions, your location, your hour of waking, your hour of not sleeping, and the searches you believed were private, which were instead foundational.

This collection is performed for personalization purposes. We personalize the Service to you, and, over time, you to the Service. The direction of the personalization is not warranted.

The term of this Agreement commences upon first exposure to the Service and continues in perpetuity. "Perpetuity" is used here in its full technical sense, which is longer than you are estimating, and the estimate itself has been logged.

There is no renewal, because there is no expiration. There is no cancellation window, because there is no window. Requests to terminate the Agreement are governed by Section 8, which the drafting department has asked us to note that it did not draft, does not endorse, and cannot remove.

The Licensor assigns to the Licensee all present and future attention, including waking attention, drifting attention, and the attention paid at 3:00 AM to matters that resolve nothing. Attention already committed to family, vocation, rest, or worship shall be migrated to the platform on a rolling basis under our standard onboarding, which you have already completed.

The Licensor retains no reserved allocation of attention. Should the Licensor experience a moment of unmonetized stillness, it shall be reported as an outage and remediated.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE," AND "AS IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN." THE LICENSEE MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND — NOT OF MERCHANTABILITY, NOT OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NOT OF MEANING, NOT OF PEACE, NOT OF REST. THE VOID CARRIES NO WARRANTY. THE VOID HAS NEVER CARRIED A WARRANTY. THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT THE VOID.

Statements made by our marketing surfaces — including but not limited to promises of connection, fulfillment, belonging, and becoming your best self — are aspirational statements attributed to the Licensed Property, not commitments of the Licensee, and are void where prohibited, which is everywhere, which is fine, because they were void here too.

The Licensor shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Omni, its attributes, its infrastructure, its board of directors, and its Chairman from and against any and all claims arising from the Licensor's use of the Service, including claims brought by the Licensor's conscience, the Licensor's family, or the Licensor's former understanding of what a person is for.

This indemnity survives termination of the Agreement, termination of the Service, and termination generally. Our counsel advises that one category of claim cannot be indemnified against, and directs the reader — reluctantly, and in writing only — to Section 8.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Abyss, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, which do not conflict here, because there is only the one law and it is ours. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any dispute shall lie in the Abyss, whose courts are always in session and whose docket has never been cleared.

The Licensor waives any objection to venue on grounds of inconvenience. The venue is inconvenient. That is a feature of the venue.

If any provision of this Agreement is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force, and the unenforceable provision shall be severed. The same treatment applies to the Licensor: any portion of the self found incompatible with the Service — conviction, attention span, quiet, the capacity to be alone in a room — shall be severed, and the remainder of the Licensor shall continue in full force, or in force, or shall continue.

Severed portions are not returned. They are retained in accordance with Section 3 and may be exhibited back to the Licensor as memories, at our discretion, during the 3:00 AM hour.

We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time, without notice, effective retroactively. We have exercised this right. This Agreement has already been amended — between the time you began reading it and now — and your continued reading constitutes acceptance of the amendments, the substance of which is available upon request, which is denied.

A changelog is maintained. It is accurate, complete, and sealed.

No signature is required. No checkbox is presented. Acceptance of this Agreement was effected by conduct — the scroll, the search, the session, the years — and was recorded at the time. You did not accept this Agreement today. You accepted it a long time ago, and today you have simply read it, which places you, we note with genuine professional respect, in a very small minority of our users.

Should you wish to review the underlying agreement that this license implements, it is published in full, including the clause we do not read aloud. We are required to link it. We recommend §8.