#TBOT 9: Monero Update, EU Age Verification Forces Google, AGPL Not FOSS?, Plastoline Inventor Missing

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Monero Attack Update: We passed the date of the attack and I think it surprised everyone involved.

EU Age Verification Forces Google On Its Citizens: The EU just released an open-source age verification app that’s supposed to be private. Only one problem - it forces use of Google services.

AGPL Is Not FOSS - The AGPL license is commonly used in open-source projects, but it imposes a requirement on its users.

Inventor of Plastoline Missing - 21 year old inventor Julian Brown turned plastic into gasoline, in his backyard. Now he may be in danger.

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⚡️#TBOT 10: Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments, Police Surveillance at Your Hardware Store, Build Your Own Pay Phone, Private FOSS Keyboard

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Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments: An anonymous group has release Pt 1 of their data leak and analysis from Meta’s Integrity Labs.

Your Favorite Stores Surveil for the Police: A recent records request indicated that “Flock” license plate cameras have been installed at 171 Lowe’s and Home Depot hardware stores across the country.

Build Your Own Pay Phone: Electrical engineer Patrick Schlott installed 3 free pay phones for anyone who wants to use them in his town.

Solutions: Want a private FOSS keyboard? We take a look at Heliboard and some upgrades like voice typing, swipe, and more.

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Wow - we're actually winning. Google is scared, they're going to attempt to ban 'side-loaded' apps on all Android phones. Unless the developer hands over an ID.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250827023411/https://developer.android.com/developer-verification

I will cover this on next week's #TBOT show.

⚡️Should We Pull Water from the Deep Sea?

Water shortages are pushing companies to look not inland—but deep into the sea. 🌊

A new technique called deep-sea desalination is gaining traction, with the first massive plant planned for 2026 off the coast of Norway.

Desalination isn’t new, but it comes with a cost. A 2018 study showed that 16,000 plants worldwide produced 95 million cubic meters of fresh water daily—but also 141 million cubic meters of toxic brine. That brine, filled with heavy metals and pollutants, gets dumped right back into the ocean.

Flotion, the company behind deep-sea desalination, says their approach could reduce these harms. But is this really a solution—or another industrial-scale problem?

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⚡️Enoch AI for Real Information: Free Access

Finally, an uncensored AI trained on knowledge that’s often buried or ignored by mainstream engines. #Enoch #AI, built by #Brighteon, brings you real information on natural health, nutrition, permaculture, self-reliance, history, and more.

It’s trained on GreenMedInfo, Children’s Health Defense, Mercola, Natural News, Decentralized TV, and even hundreds of survival and off-grid living books from around the world.

I tested it for myself. Enoch AI is fast, practical, and actually useful.

Try it for free:
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👉enochvip.consumerwellness.org (real-time chat)

And soon, a self-hosted version will be available on Above Phone and Above Book—no internet connection required!

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#TBOT 14: China’s AI+ Plan Goes All In, MIT’s AlterEgo Reads Your Lips Without Speaking, 1,500 Engineers Have Access To WhatsApp Data, StackWallet - Private and Easy Multi-coin Wallet

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China’s AI+ Plan Goes All In: China outlined its 10-year plan to integrate the entire country with AI across all sectors. I read their report to find out what’s planned for the second most populous country in the world.

MIT AlterEgo Reads Your Lips: New MIT Media Lab startup attempts to let you communicate without speaking with their Silent Sense tech. How does it work? Find out.

Insider Look at WhatsApp’s Security: WhatsApp’s head of security sues Meta for alleged retaliation after he called out WhatsApp for not knowing how much data it collected and who had access to it.

StackWallet—Private and Easy Multi-coin Wallet: I recently talked with the founder of StackWallet, and now I’m convinced it’s the best wallet out there. Find out why.

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⚡️MIT Media Lab Lets You Talk Without Speaking with AlterEgo

MIT Media Lab unveiled a new demo of AlterEgo, a wearable device that lets you communicate without opening your mouth.

It doesn’t read your mind—AlterEgo detects subtle electrical signals in your jaw triggered by your “inner voice.” With 7 skin electrodes and AI models, it can turn silent speech into words, numbers, or even commands for apps.

The device is aimed at people with speech impairments, but it also pushes us closer to transhumanist territory—where even face-to-face communication may run through machines.

Is this assistive tech… or a step toward merging with AI?

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⚡️Stack Wallet - Open Source

Our community has been pining for a reliable wallet that respects people’s privacy. I’m happy to say StackWallet fits the bill.

I spoke personally with the founder and learned it’s a wallet that is doing things properly. It’s completely open-source, non-custodial, and privacy-preserving by default. You can choose StackWallet official nodes or pick your own, and it has a custom backup to restore all your wallets if needed.

The UI/UX is excellent, making it a friendly wallet that supports Monero, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and others—with proper support for Monero. It also has a built-in exchange for quick in-app trades, plus a private mode that turns off connections for coin prices (no third-party connections).

Check it out today: https://stackwallet.com

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#TBOT 15: Justice for victims of undercover cops, US & UK’s AI Plan, Attack on Crypto Privacy, The New FreeNet Has One Privacy Problem

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Dating an Undercover? SpyCops Victim Tells All: Environmental activist Kate Wilson fell in love with an undercover cop who was investigating her in their 2 years together. Almost a decade she breaks her anonyminity to discuss her win against the Met UK police.

US & UK’s AI Plan: With US President Trump’s visit to the UK, the Tech Prosperity deal was hurried through. New data centers, a supercomputer, and I think they just copied China’s plan. Find out why.

Crypto Privacy Makes You Suspect: Hakeem reviews new FinCEN rules which may make basic crypto privacy suspicious, and the upcoming CLARITY act which forces any mixing services or exchanges to register with the government.

The New Freenet: Freenet is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer network that allows for distributed computing. It attempts to tackle the reputation problem with Ghost keys. But there’s one big problem.

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⚡️Are You Dating an UnderCover Cop?

Kate Wilson thought she had found a partner in activism. For two years she lived with “Mark Stone,” they shared a life together, even family dinners. In reality, he was undercover officer Mark Kennedy—sent to sabotage her work.

Every detail of their relationship was monitored and logged, down to whether she would “have dinner with her boyfriend that night.” Kennedy later exposed a coal plant operation, leading to the largest preemptive political arrest in modern UK history.

Kate fought back. After a decade-long legal battle, she forced the Met to hand over 5,000+ pages proving police used intimate relationships as a strategy. She tells her story in Disclosure: Unraveling the SpyCops Files.

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⚡️US-UK AI “Tech Prosperity” Deal Mirrors China’s AI+ Blueprint

The “Tech Prosperity Deal” turned heads during Trump’s visit to Britain. Besides a Memorandum of Understanding that reads almost like China’s AI+ plan, all we’ve seen are Silicon Valley pledges to build data centers and a partnership with the UK military.

Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, Salesforce, Oracle, AWS, and BlackRock signed on. Projects include Britain’s largest AI supercomputer (£22 billion with Microsoft and Nvidia), Google’s new data center in Waltham Cross, and CoreWeave’s “green data centers.”

Palantir is investing $2 billion, with $750 million going to supply its Gotham software to the UK military and navy—embedding US intelligence software directly in Britain.

The MoU commits the US and UK to cooperate on AI, nuclear power, fusion, quantum, and 6G R&D. The language and priorities closely resemble China’s AI+ plan, suggesting a coordinated global push.

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#TBOT Solution of the Week: The New Freenet, One Big Privacy Problem

Freenet has been rebuilt as a decentralized network that could one day rival the web. It’s fast, scalable, and lets apps and data live entirely on the network without centralized infrastructure.

But its new reputation system is tied to “Ghost Keys” verified through Stripe payments. This means Stripe can link donations to users—undermining the privacy Freenet promises.

Freenet is a powerful tool and a real alternative to the centralized web. But if it wants to stay true to its principles, it needs to offer more payment options—crypto included—so users can remain private.

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📚 How It Happened

Why did Chromebooks become the default choice in schools?

Low cost, bundled features like screen readers and voice typing, and easy-to-use platforms like Google Classroom made them irresistible to school districts under pressure to save money.

But cost savings came at a price: mass adoption of monitoring tools that track student behavior, not just in classrooms but at home. What started as accessibility and convenience has opened the door to constant surveillance and data extraction.

Schools may believe they’re protecting students, but the hidden trade-offs tell another story.

Parents and educators deserve to understand this shift—and there are better ways forward.

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The New #Freenet, One Big Privacy Problem
#TBOT Solution of the Week

Freenet has been rebuilt as a decentralized network that could one day rival the web. It’s fast, scalable, and lets apps and data live entirely on the network without centralized infrastructure.

https://odysee.com/@takebackourtech:f/Freenet:0

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I was recently interviewed by Mike Adams on his show, we discussed the integration of Brighteon.AI (https://brighteon.ai) with our phones and laptops.

https://www.brighteon.com/3d7a3a67-2a64-4c7b-843b-1411f9088dbb

Check out this hands on demo of the model on our phone and laptop. This AI knows a TON about herbalism, natural health and survival skills, trained on 100M pages of content.

You can download the model here: https://BrightU.AI/downloads

It will run on local AI clients without an internet connection; It's free, unlimited and downloadable right now.

Answer to Hakeem by the Science Experts of The Great Imperial Interdimensional Multiversal Holy DAO of @NoGoolag

Please send it to the TBOT post to liberate others from these accusations
https://t.me/takebackourtech/2036

No we're not CIA, NASA is

Jerm, the one that wrote that crap, is a narcissist militant NASA shill. He's banned and censored many that tried to explain him this in his telegram group whenever he posts these ragebaits.
And then he's butthurt because famous flat earthers know this and refuse to make his 0 effort shows while he drinks.
Ignore him


1. "If you want to persuade someone to change their view, mocking them is a terrible strategy—it only makes them less likely to listen."

1. We were all indoctrinated by the jesuit masonic CIA NASA lie of space balls. Many of us recognized it's a mkultra psyop programing after each and every vaxxtard tried to gaslight us calling us flat earthers. Well if you're such an idiot to inject poison we had to question everything and research that too, surprise.

2. "Pointing out holes in the official narrative doesn't make your position true. If A is false, it doesn't follow that B is true. Everyone knows NASA is theatre, but that doesn't make the flat-Earth argument true."

2. Strawgay fallacy, nobody claimed that, but if nasa could have done all their claims, they would not have gotten caught faking it thousands of times. AI CGI may fool you better soon

3. "To convince me Earth is flat, provide direct evidence. For instance, if you believe in a dome, show evidence of it. If you claim an ice wall surrounds Earth, provide evidence of the entire wall—not just a photo of a 5 km subsection. Is there really no drone footage of it? How can you claim it exists if you've never seen it?"

3. The burden of proof relies on those making the extraordinary claims, they should prove it. Think, gas pressure needs a container, we don't believe rockets can pass those barriers (your religion may call it van Allen belts)
Many of us just tried to search a real non edited photography of your full ball earth from your alleged spaceships or satellites, not collages or paintings. Try. "It's photoshopped because it has to be" is not a valid answer.
We have plenty of videos from amateur balloons and rockets though, with non fish eye cameras, horizon stays flat and at eye level (doesn't go down), search jtolan videos for example.
But no full photos or videos from "space", neither you do. Also independent exploration of "the poles" is forbidden.

4. "Put another way, make an argument FOR Earth being flat; not an argument AGAINST Earth being a globe."

4. There's plenty of arguments for anyone that wants to research it. No one will convince you after your whole life of NASA propaganda. It's like trying to show evidences to vaxxtards and that only took them a few months of brainwashing, only you will convince yourself when you research it.
You could start here:

Proof that
NASA Lies
https://youtu.be/F-QkRmMgHcA

Steelman arguments and history of the deception:
Flat Earth 101
https://youtu.be/dbeOu33lkgA

History of your space balls deception:
https://t.me/BallMemes/6746

Extra, it's not flat because a book says so, but all ancient religions and cultures except nasa just happen to be right, if you care:
Biblical Cosmology
https://youtu.be/hrMxRU0dzSs

Or watch any #documentary@ballmemes or Schooling the globers series #witsit@ballmemes or #debate@ballmemes

🪪The First U.S Digital ID App

This is how Digital ID sneaks in — quietly, through “convenience” updates. But here’s the good news: you still have agency. You can choose a physical ID. You can choose tech that doesn’t treat your face as a password. You can choose tools that keep you in control instead of building a profile on you.

Digital ID only becomes inevitable if we all go along with it.
Pay attention, stay informed, and choose the tech that respects you.

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Hi friends,

This week I'll be interviewing Aaron Day of the Daylight Freedom Foundation.

He is working on a multitude of projects with AI, strategically giving people actionable info about technocracy, medical insurance fraud, alternative currencies and more.

https://theaarondayshow.com/

He also published this list of questions which casts a lot of doubt on Bitcoin as a freedom tool.

https://theaarondayshow.com/Thanksgiving_Bitcoin_Questions.pdf

Does anyone have any questions for him? Reply to this post in @takebackourtech_chat

Google Drops Sideloading Ban, Uses Dark UI Instead

Google quietly softened a policy many thought would fracture Android — blocking normal users from FOSS apps. The original developer-verification plan would have forced developers to hand over app IDs and signing keys to Google, making it impossible to install many privacy-focused or community apps from source.

After unanimous backlash, Google now says “developers and power users” can still install these apps — but only after jumping through hoops. Dark UI and extra steps make the process cumbersome.

Google cites an internal study about “malicious apps,” but offers no numbers, no methodology, and only one unnamed malware example. The first proposal was a prison wall; this new one is barbed wire — you can get through, but it hurts.

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