I'm settling into my next educational project about AI Data Centers and the impacts we'll see — this work is going to be mostly U.S focused since most of the DCs are being built here.

What would you like to know about your local data centers? Would a massive ecological impact of a data center influence your decision to live in that location?

Is there any use in making people aware of the ecological dangers? Is there any real way to withdraw our consent?

If you haven't already - check out my latest webinar on AI, its nuances, and local AI - or share it with a friend

Send me your thoughts at @takebackourtech_chat

⚡️Getting Started with Local AI

Have you ever wanted to set up your own local AI? In this clip from our webinar, Empowerment with Ethical, Local and Private AI, I walk you through how to get up and running with local AI on your own computer.

It’s actually pretty straightforward: you just download a model once and run it locally, no internet connection needed after that. I show you a couple of recommended tools and a lightweight model to start with, so you can experiment right at home without any hassle.

🔗 Watch the full webinar here

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#TBOT 21: Epstein Files Update, ICE Expands Clearview AI, Ring + Flock Cancel After Backlash, Fungal Computing with Mushrooms

Here are this week’s stories:

What We Can Learn from Epstein’s Privacy:
The DOJ has released millions of pages tied to the Epstein case, with more still held back. We look at how the emails were obtained, where to find the datasets, and what the records reveal about how Epstein operated.

ICE’s Clearview AI Contract:
CBP just purchased a new contract with Clearview AI, expanding face search at the border using what you post online.

Flock + Ring Cancel Partnership After Super Bowl Backlash:
Amazon pushed a feel good surveillance ad and people hated it. Now the planned Ring and Flock integration has been cancelled.

Fungal Computing with Mushrooms:
Researchers are testing common store bought mushrooms as bioelectronics, exploring “fungal computing”. Could this be the future??

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What Epstein's Emails Reveal About Privacy and Power

After missing the deadline for the Epstein Transparency Act, the DOJ released an additional 3M pages of Epstein emails and documents, many heavily redacted. Another 2.5M documents will remain unreleased, supposedly to protect victims.

The full dataset is on the Justice Department website, and researchers are already repackaging it with AI tools to make it searchable. I used some of those tools to dig into what these files reveal about how elites behave behind closed doors, and how arrogance shows up in the details.

Epstein and associates operated brazenly through Gmail and Yahoo, using attachments and file transfers while also maintaining serious infrastructure across multiple properties.

Do not let this drain your power. Expect little from the system. Focus on personal accountability and building a life that does not feed the abusive systems that make crimes like this possible.

🪧 Read the full article on Substack
📲 Discover real privacy at Above

Securing Your Digital Identity

In this webinar, we dive into the importance of sovereign security. Learn from real-life stories about the dangers of insecure password storage and discover how to protect your digital life.

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Building a private alternative to big tech hasn't been a straight line. There has been pressure, obstacles, and moments where we wondered if the whole thing would survive.

This Saturday at VIP Summit 5, I am sitting down with Richard Grove to talk about the crashes we hit while building Above Phone and how we turned those moments into fuel for a bigger mission.

📅 Saturday, March 7th, 2026 at 12 PM ET 👉 Register now!

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Telegram and the World Economic Forum: Unpacking the Connection

Explore the intriguing link between Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, and the World Economic Forum. Delve into how his past nomination as a Young Global Leader sparks questions about privacy, freedom, and the platform’s future.

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🫨 Disaster Planning for Freedom Tech: FOSS War Room

What the f*** should we do about tyrannical tech lockdowns?

• Age verification on computers
• Digital ID on cell phones
• FOSS apps banned on phones
• Private Cryptocurrency Becomes Illegal

I asked some of the smartest hackers on earth that question at Parallel Society 2026. We war-gamed the tech disaster scenarios that we’re facing, and the audience jumped in with solutions.

Watch the full talk on Substack.

If you don't know about Logos, they produced the event and are authoring a comprehensive technology stack for storage, messaging, and more; the primitives we need for free software of the future.

Check out important tech:

• https://logos.co/
• https://dark.fi/

If you’re interested in learning more about Parallel Society, you can check out the website here:

https://ps.logos.co

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Remember Calamari clots?

https://www.drtrozzi.news/p/calamari-clots-part-1-morphological

Here's an analysis from my friend Dr. Trozzi on clots recovered from embalmers:

Across all samples examined, the anomalous casts displayed a consistent structural pattern.

Compared with ordinary postmortem clots, the casts showed:
- strong elasticity and tensile strength
- coherent branching structures that followed vascular pathways
- white coloration rather than red or yellow clot material
- laminated fibrin structures indicating partial formation in flowing blood

They also differed from classical antemortem thrombi, which typically contain large numbers of trapped blood cells and fully developed Lines of Zahn.

Instead, the anomalous casts displayed dense fibrin networks with minimal cellular content and unusually resilient mechanical properties.

While morphology alone cannot determine their origin, the findings suggest that these structures may represent a previously uncharacterized intravascular phenomenon.

⚡️KYC for Your Phone?

In 7 days, anonymous phones may as well be dead. A new FCC rule demands cell service operators to ask for their customer’s government IDs, personal information, and past phone numbers. This goes for SIM cards, eSIMs, and VoIP numbers.

All supposedly to protect you from automated scam calls.

Let’s get this straight; we’re going to create massive new loosely-protected databases of people’s personal info to protect people from scams?

Its a data breach waiting to happen…

🤳Get the scoop in today’s episode

📲Your private life should stay private. Let’s start with your phone.

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⚡️ Zano, The Spiritual Successor To Monero?

Monero, is known to be the king of privacy coins, largely thanks to the CryptoNote protocol which makes transactions harder to trace.

The original founder of CryptoNote launched his own cryptocurrency, Zano — to fix the problems with earlier coins.

Hybrid proof of stake, full Chain membership proofs, and a Zano powered debit card without KYC?

Learn all this and more in today's episode.

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I'm making good on my promise of migrating away from Telegram. I'll share why on the next episode of the #TBOT Show.

#TBOT now has a channel & group on SimpleX chat.

Existing SimpleX chat users will need to update their app.

Step 1: Download the latest release of SimpleX (or update)

Android | Linux App Image | Windows

Step 2: Create your account

Step 3: Follow our SimpleX channel
https://smp9.simplex.im/c#42JhYLTvg6_HQ11XeUYLftQMOKUWFDWWkFTCymLk0RQ

Step 4: Join our SimpleX group
https://smp9.simplex.im/g#IcBYNSscyr19yLioGTfYl048k5-Qs2-25k0GsDCe3Zc

Step 5: Love yourself.

- Hakeem

Our friends at DeFlock are preparing for a National Week of Action against ALPRs.

https://noalprs.com/

Get prepared and active in your local community. DeFlock has already helped stop ALPRs in 69 towns. We can stop surveillance through awareness.

⚡️Anti-Drone Tech Hits FIFA World Cup

Thanks to the FIFA World Cup, we’re now seeing the largest drone deployments ever for public sporting events.

For the first time, state and local law enforcement will operate anti-drone surveillance, drone first responders, and kinetic counter-drone systems across 11 host cities.

Backed by the NDAA's Safer Skies Act and nearly $1 billion in FEMA funding, authorities now have expanded powers to detect, seize, disable, and even destroy drones they deem a threat.

From identifying a pilot's location to autonomously intercepting aircraft mid-flight, these systems are bringing a new layer of surveillance to public events.

📖 Read the full article on Substack
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➡️ Our community is shifting to SimpleX. Come be part of it!

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🐔 Mass Non-Compliance Works.

Mexico tried to force Digital ID & Biometrics on 82 million people -- and they failed.

June 30th was the deadline for people to register with the 'CURP', Mexico's biometric registration system. As of the deadline, 82 million lines are still not registered. This band of holdouts is preventing Mexico from becoming a total technocratic state.

Let's take a lesson from them. Never comply with Digital ID.

¡Viva la Independencia!

https://web.archive.org/web/20260624221104/https://www.rivieramayanews.mx/mexico-extends-mobile-phone-registration-deadline-to-october-28/

⚡️Telegram Leaks Unique Device Identifiers

Pavel Durov, you have failed us big time.

A new paper from cryptographer Nadim Kobessi found that Telegram is sending users' unique device identifiers over the internet in plaintext instead of protecting them with HTTPS. This could allow anyone monitoring network traffic, from your internet service provider to an intelligence agency, to collect metadata that helps reveal who is talking to whom, when, and where from.

The worst part? The fix is incredibly simple. Telegram could enable HTTPS, but it hasn't. Until we see real accountability, we're no longer recommending Telegram and are moving to a messaging protocol built to minimize metadata.

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@durov — why on earth does Telegram not use HTTPS? this paper verified that unique device identifiers are sent completely naked over the internet, which would enable internet service providers and agencies to track users. you critique WhatsApp’s privacy -- but this appears to be a failure of yours. do you want people to switch away from Telegram?
fix this.

paper here:
https://symbolic.software/pdf/gnmx-01.pdf

PSA: The KIDS Act passed the house of representatives the other day.

Age verification is coming (biometric scans) on these popular platforms, in my estimate within the year. You will want to make sure you have direct contacts for the people you care about.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr7757