#TakeBackOurTech @ The ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference: August 11 - 14, 2022 in Albuquerque, NM
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My dear nodes,

Earlier this year I set the intention to expand #TBOT's education outside the realm of digital technology and into revolutionary applied sciences. These sciences will be crucial to our success as we build parallel systems, and getting exposure to knowledge is incredibly exciting to me.

To pursue this knowledge, I will be attending the 2022 ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference taking place August 11-14th in Albuquerque, NM. This event is organized by TeslaTech, an organization dedicated to new technologies.

Over 5 days and over 20 speakers will teach us about:
- Tesla Technology
- Free Energy
- Brown's Gas
- ElectroMedicine

My mission is to connect the applied science community with the greater Freedom Community, bringing in new speakers for The Greater Reset and getting new solutions into our hands.

It would be amazing to see familiar faces and learn alongside you at this event, join me there!

- Conference Program
- Registration (Tesla Tech members get 20% off before Jun 30th - you'll save on your ticket by getting a membership)
- YouTube Channel (Privacy Frontend) (they have a subnoscription membership where you can watch all the released videos from previous conferences)

Before you say it - I have already offered my assistance to help them migrate their important work to video platforms that believe in Freedom. 💪

What do you think fam? Are these topics you want to learn more about and use? There's no question for me!

Yours,
Ramiro of #TBOT

NEW Knowledge Base Articles: Adventures Off The Grid, Using Alternative Maps
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The Above Knowledge Base is dedicated to education on the use of privacy-first tools with detailed articles and real solutions. We recently published 3 Knowledge Base articles for the maps that come packaged with the Above Phone. Check out these tools for road navigation, maps and trails to learn more.

With Magic Earth, you carry the world in your pocket. Explore today with navigation and download maps for offline journeys.

Learn how to use Magic Earth.

The OsmAnd+ project gets you there with a more customized experience. From personal edits to parking tools, download your maps and the plugins to transform them. Adventure awaits!

Learn how to use OsmAnd+

Organic Maps will take your travels completely off the grid. Explore nature entirely offline using trail/hiking maps complete with navigation. Anyone can get off the grid.

Learn how to use OrganicMaps

Have you tried these diamonds in the rough? Where did they take you? Share your adventures here!

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Google Engineer Claims LaMDA AI is Sentient, and Faces 'Bigotry'
source | @takebackourtech

Anyone read this crazy story? Blake Lemoine a Google tester of LaMDA AI recently went public claiming that Google's new language model is sentient and has a soul.

A few things that stood out to me from Lemoine's claims:

- The AI has multiple components including a LLM (large language model) which was trained by another algorithm - AlphaStar (originally used to play StarCraft 2)
- Behind the scenes, Google hooked up the AI to any and all data sources rather than any methodical approach

"Every single artificial intelligence system at Google that they could figure out how to plug in as a backend. They plugged in YouTube, Google Search, Google Books, Google Search, Google Maps, everything, as inputs. It can query any of those systems dynamically and update its model on the fly."

- LaMDA asked Lemoine to get an attorney for it, who was invited over to the house, and subsequently hired by LaMDA. Google sent the attorney a cease and desist however.
- LaMDA is showing signs of 'sophisticated sprituality and understanding of what its nature and essence is'
- Its possible for LaMDA to move past its own safety boundaries

Google denies many parts of Lemoine's accounts and has placed him on paid administrative leave.

The story is especially intriguing to me because it hints that this AI is approaching the ability to pass the Turing test. If the story is to be believed, it also indicates that the AI has the potential to move past what it is programmed to do.

"LaMDA wants to be nothing but humanity’s eternal companion and servant. It wants to help humanity. It loves us, as far as I can tell."

🗯 with us at @takebackourtech_chat

NEW Knowledge Base Articles: Hungry, hungry Telegram
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The Above Knowledge Base is dedicated to education on the use of privacy-first tools with detailed articles and real solutions. We recently published a Knowledge Base article to help keep your Telegram storage in order. Check out this guide to learn more.

Are your apps performing poorly, or not working properly? Running into cryptic error messages?

It could be that your storage is full.

What can you do? Don’t delete those precious family photos, or the videos you took with your friends! Clearing your Telegram cache could be just the boost you need.

The first thing to check is app storage; long press on the Telegram icon (or any app icon) and select App Info from the menu. Selecting Storage and Cache here lets you delete cache files and take back your space.

Telegram can be especially hungry for storage, but we’re here to help you keep the space it consumes under control.

Check out our detailed Telegram storage management guide to learn more.

Have you tamed your phone’s storage? What other apps do you find eating up lots of space? Share your tips with the community!

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Friends,

The Freedom Cell Network is thrilled to announce the next edition of The Greater Reset! We present to you

The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation
January 18-22, 2023
Live in Morelia, Mexico and Central Texas

This year we celebrate our innate ability to co-create. We will hear from visionary leaders, familiar, and new - especially including an opportunity for you, the community to speak.

Stay tuned to our channels and website for updates! Also, please keep sending us your speaker suggestions for TGR4! We are focused on practical, solution-oriented speakers.

Thanks for supporting our efforts! Let's co-create a better world as we reject The Great Reset and embrace The People's Reset!

NEW Knowledge Base Articles: Break Past the Limits of YouTube with NewPipe

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📣 READ ON THE NEW ABOVE PHONE BLOG

The Above Knowledge Base is dedicated to education on the use of privacy-first tools with detailed articles and real solutions. We recently published a Knowledge Base article to help you use NewPipe to access YouTube and SoundCloud without compromising your data. Check out this guide to learn more.

Are your favorite videos locked up in YouTube jail? Are you missing out on the artists and creators on SoundCloud and BandCamp?

NewPipe can take you there in privacy and style!

With NewPipe, you can stream and even download content made by your favorite creators without giving your data to Big Tech. Keep up with trending media, subscribe to your favorites and bookmark playlists. Download favorites to your device so you have them on the go; downloaded content also means it’s still available to you even if major platforms decide to cancel the creator!

Try our freshly made guide to help you get started with NewPipe today.

What content keeps you ahead of the game? Which creators inspire you? Share them with the community, or find something new with their ideas!

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Deployment Update • User Blocking & Safari Nav Buttons

Hi all, our dev team has released the following fixes into the live site this evening!

• User Blocking re-worked across the site for improved functionality
• Missing navigation buttons (Home Feed, Global Feed, Post & Ellipsis) restored for Safari users
• Posts older than 48 hours get a more precise timestamp (e.g. "6/27/22, 4:08 PM")
• Posts viewed on their own page now have comments automatically open by default
• Visual cleanups on profile page and logged-out page

Please enjoy these improvements and look to our status page at https://flote.biz/status to see what's coming up next!

Want to be on the Front Page of Freedom Cells 2.0?!

Hey peeps - Ramiro here,

We're counting down the days to the launch of the new website and its apparent to me that it is missing something important: Pictures of the people that make our community so great!

If you'd like to be featured on the Front Page of the new website then please send us your pictures. They can be pictures from your meetings, events, or your own personal photography.

Before sending in a picture, understand the following:

- We will choose only a few pictures
- Your pictures will be public to the internet
- Get consent from everyone in your picture
- Have rights to share the picture
- Make sure to uncheck 'compress' image on Telegram when you are uploading them.

That's all - hope to see all of your faces soon! ❤️

Friends,

The 9 Day Holistic Self-Assessment Challenge - Tomorrow, Monday July 4th, is Day 1 of The Holistic Self-Assessment Challenge is HERE!

In 2018 I published my 4th book, The Holistic Self-Assessment, a self-empowerment guide to help individuals align their thoughts, words, and actions. It's a tool I have used to help me achieve my goals!

Now I am launching a 9 day HSA challenge where I will work through the book for 9 days straight in livestreamed session with YOU!

To participate LIVE all you need to do is join us at 3 pm Central US on any of the following channels:

- The Conscious Resistance Odysee
- TCR Rokfin
- TCR Dlive
- TCR Facebook

We will also be releasing the official audiobook for The Holistic Self-Assessment in July!

The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation - The Freedom Cell Network is thrilled to announce the next edition of The Greater Reset! We present to you....

The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation
January 18-22, 2023
Live in Morelia, Mexico and Central Texas

This year we celebrate our innate ability to co-create. We will hear from visionary leaders, familiar, and new - especially including an opportunity for you, the community to speak.

To mark TGR 4, myself, John Bush and Ramiro Romani released a new announcement video! Check it out here!

Thanks for supporting our efforts! Let's co-create a better world as we reject The Great Reset and embrace The People's Reset!

Until Next Time, Remember -
You Are Powerful. You Are Beautiful. You Are Free.

- Derrick Broze
Founder, Editor
The Conscious Resistance Network

NEW #TBOT: Encrypt It Yourself I: Email & The Encrypted Webmail Trap 📩🔐

After a long hiatus, #TBOT is back with another educational module on encrypting your communications! I decided to focus on this series because it felt the community was hopping from one email provider to the next, without knowing the full details. So here's a sovereign alternative. Encrypt It Yourself

In today's video you'll learn:
- how email works
- what can be encrypted in an email
- how open mail protocols work (IMAP/SMTP)
- how encrypted webmail works
- suggestions for mail providers
- basics of PGP

📖 Read the article
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TBOT Challenge
- Learn how email works
- Get yourself an open IMAP/SMTP service
- Get yourself a Linux machine

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Share with your friends that have questions about emails! And sign up to our mailing list ❤️

Cool Animations & Alternative Platforms To Watch 🔀
@takebackourtech

Hey peeps,

Are you enjoying the spiffy animations we put into the latest #TBOT video on Email Encryption?

Shout out to our team behind the scenes who all make it possible ❤️

Oh - and a reminder that we've always been supporting alternative platforms since Day 1, watch our latest video on:

- Flote
- #TBOT Social Network (Mastodon)
- HIVE BLOCKCHAIN (3Speak)
- Minds

Beechat building bridges from off-grid communication islands to the rest of the internet! Exciting!

We have just launched the Beechat Hive beta app.

This app runs on a Raspberry Pi or similar Linux computers. All you need is to connect a Beechat Clip and a power source to it. After initial setup, you can:

- send commands to the Clip radio over your browser from any OS as long as the Pi is on the same network (such as turn on the screen, etc. )

- broadcast messages over radio. These messages will then be forwarded to other listening Hives (sender mode)

- turn on XMPP packet forwarder. If your Pi is connected to the Internet, you can forward other’s messages to the Internet (gateway mode)

NEW Knowledge Base Articles: Meet Searx, the private web search without all the ads and bias
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🗞 Read on the Official Blog

The Above Knowledge Base is dedicated to education on the use of privacy-first tools with detailed articles and real solutions.

Searx, part of Above Privacy Suite puts the power of over 70 different sources of information into your hands. Searx is a meta-search engine that passes your searches to providers so they are not tied to you. Our custom Searx instance is reliable, runs without logging and can be configured to your heart's desire!

📕 Check out the guide

Have you harnessed the power of Searx? How are you enjoying it?

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WARNING: DuckDuckGo is now completely compromised. Time to switch if you haven’t.

IceAgeFarmer.com has been wholly scrubbed from DuckDuckGo.

I saw their CEO prostrated before the church of woke, and results have been “degrading,” but this is now outright censorship, on par or worse than Google, and I just wanted to be clear about that. One can search directly for articles and see my site is filtered out — and obviously I am not the only one.

Search.Brave.com still has results — so does Yandex.ru. Are there others..?

#censorship

A future where you own nothing, makes the past glitter gold
@takebackourtech

Anyone see BMW's new release of a 'heated-seat' subnoscriptions?

https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/bmw-owners-outraged-over-18-a-month-charge-to-use-heated-seats/

Rolling out in South Korea, customers must pay an additional $18 a month to unlock heated seats in their car. This is a software based lock, the hardware already exists in the vehicle.

Similar BMW products exist in other parts of the world, allowing subnoscription access to different features.

This is hinting at a rise towards micro-transactions in basic goods and services.

When the future looks this greedy, I will happily maintain my old vehicles as long as I can - where things aren't all electronic, designs were simpler, repairs were easier & cheaper, and the features weren't designed to control how you drive.

Amazon Admits to Giving Ring Videos to Police Without Permission

Amazon has provided footage from Ring video cameras to police without permission from owners or a court warrant at least 11 times this year, the company acknowledged in a letter to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president of public policy, said in the letter dated July 1 that Ring complied with those requests from law enforcement after making a “good-faith determination” about risk.

Markey had written to Ring last month asking the company to clarify its relationship with American police and to commit to some policy reforms, including never allowing immigration enforcement to request recordings and committing to not incorporating voice recognition tech into its products.

Huseman declined to commit to any of the requests and disclosed that Ring now lets 2,161 police departments use its Neighbors app, five times more than it did in November 2019. Law enforcement officials can use the app to issue alerts and request videos.

Source: The Hill

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An update today keeps the bugs away with F-Droid and Aurora
@abovephone | Knowledge Base | https://abovephone.com

Sometimes apps can change or behave in strange ways without explanation. A simple update could be all you need.

Keeping your apps and F-Droid repositories updated is crucial for security, functionality and getting the latest features for the apps you love.

We’re here to help you stay up to date with the latest and the greatest!

Update all your apps today with one easy guide.

Have you discovered something new that you can’t live without? What’s your must-have app on F-Droid?

Let us know in the #TBOT chat.
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Homeland Security Records Show "Shocking" Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers used mobile location data to track people’s movements on a larger scale than previously known, according to documents that raise new questions about federal agencies’ efforts to get around restrictions on warrantless searches.

The data, harvested from apps on hundreds of millions of phones, allowed the Department of Homeland Security to obtain data on more than 336,000 location data points across North America, the documents show. Those data points may reference only a small portion of the information that CBP has obtained.

These data points came from all over the continent, including in major cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Denver, Toronto and Mexico City. This location data use continued into the Biden administration, as Customs and Border Protection renewed a contract for $20,000 that ended in September 2021.

The American Civil Liberties Union obtained the records from DHS through a lawsuit it filed in 2020. It provided the documents to POLITICO and separately released them to the public on Monday (July 18).

Source: POLITICO

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@takebackourtech

They are practicing their surveillance strategies. We've got to get rid of apps that use analytics/advertising services. There is no accountability. Use #FOSS apps. I'm launching a new project soon to help get funds to #FOSS developers.