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Hakeem Anwar of Above Phone and Take Back Our Tech (@takebackourtech) discusses the different facets of the global panopticon being built around us, why it is still important to take steps to protect your privacy, and how to do that. https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2025/06/10/hakeem-above-algorithm-ghetto

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I swear it feels like SOME conservatives were born yesterday and know nothing about protests. There are lots of movements which organize nationally. And many of them are funded by big orgs connected to the political parties. This isn't new. This doesn't mean there will be riots.

Stop letting Rumble and Twitter influencers fill your head with fear that June 19th is going to be a civil war or mass rioting everywhere. Most of these types of protests are just old liberals and angry college students who go out to the streets, hold signs, and chant, and then go home.

They feel good but they're largely ineffective. Then you have a few agitators who travel from protest to protest to cause trouble. Some of them may be agents of the government or just angry nihilistic losers. I've known activists like this. They just want to cause trouble.

The point is if you're in a right wing echo chamber right now telling you that George Soros is behind everything and the world's going to burn next week maybe consider getting more balanced sources of information.

🤖 Amazon’s Humanoid Robots Coming to a Doorstep Near You

They’re building a “humanoid park” to test bipedal delivery bots—yes, walking robots that’ll step out of Rivian vans and hand you your package.

With 750,000+ robots already in their network, this could be Amazon’s boldest step yet in phasing out human workers.

Also, fun fact (or nightmare fuel): some of these robots are running marathons now.

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The goal of this article is to move the Overton window for this conversation, and to help people grasp the stakes here. If no one understands the operative plan is to strip us of our “Right to Compute,” there will be no resistance to that plan. But there must be! If AI is the new weapon, we cannot allow it to be wrestled from our hands before it is even born.

The idea that anyone could use powerful AI is not attractive to the powers that be.

Don’t take my word for it. Here is Bill Gates admitting that “managing AI” is right up there in terms of importance with climate change, bioterrorism, and nuclear war:

Gates is not just winging it, these are highly intentional words, each with decades of planning behind them. He is signaling the agenda to control AI. AI is seen as so powerful that it is a threat to the technocratic takeover. It can't be allowed in our hands. This is the new gun control. AI is seen as the new weapon, and an informed populace therewith, a threat to the state.

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Its time to pray for peace, and not give into the violence. It takes two sides to have a war.

UPDATE | Israel has bombed residential buildings and areas in the Iranian capital Tehran, in attacks that appear to be assassinations.

⚡️The TBOT Show Episode #3

Back with episode 3! Today we cover a massive Bitcoin heist, Pavel Durov’s arrest, a new-ish processor architecture, and age verification to download apps.

🎊 Welcome to the Take Back Our Tech show with Hakeem Anwar. Every Friday, tune into tech news that could change your life. Well-researched and with solutions - all in 20 minutes.

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In today’s episode:

• $330M Bitcoin Heist, Pumps XMR Price 50%: 3,350 Bitcoin is gone in the wind, in what makes the top 10 of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time. They say an elderly BTC holder was socially engineered and the scammers quickly converted half of it to Monero. Is that all there is to the story?

• Pavel Durov Speaks Out: The Telegram CEO goes public for the first time since he was arrested by French authorities - he answers questions surrounding his arrest and how Telegram complies with laws, what data they give on people. However - there’s one question that no one has asked him that I intend to ask.

• RISC-V Open Architecture: Concerned about hardware backdoors? Open processor hardware may be closer than you think with the RISC-V open architecture. This year, group of ex-Intel employees broke off to create their own processor based on RISC-V, and the first RISC-V laptop was released. When can we expect devices in our hands?

• Age Verification To Download Apps: Texas passes a bill for age verification for both Google and Apple app stores. They’re not alone - 9 other states are proposing similar bills. We’ll look at what this means for app stores and most importantly - for the kids.

• Reddit Alternative: Lemmy is a federated Reddit alternative that anyone can run at home. Each instance federates with each other to share communities and posts.


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Back with episode 3! Today we cover a massive Bitcoin heist, Pavel Durov’s arrest, a new-ish processor architecture, and age verification to download apps.

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NEW - U.S. Army swears in senior tech leaders from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI as lieutenant colonels to be part-time advisors.

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Do I have any Japanese homies following this channel? I'll be taking a trip there soon :)