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⚡️United States AI Companies Voluntarily "Self-Regulate", More Legislation To Follow @takebackourtech The White House released a statement last week on the regulation of AI. They have received commitments from 7 companies - Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and Open AI for "safe, secure, and transparent development". The Biden administration is also developing an executive order that will pursue more regulation for the space. What are the commitments? Safety - Ensuring Products are Safe - internal/external security testing - Sharing information with industry, governments, civil society, and academia on managing AI risks Security - Invest in cybersecurity and insider threat safeguards to protect AI model weights - Third-party discovery and reporting of vulnerabilities Trust - Should be clear when content is AI generated, such as a watermark - Publicly reporting capabilities, limitations, areas of appropriate / inappropriate use - Prioritize research societal risk with bias, discrimination, and protecting privacy - Deploy AI to solve the greatest challenges Read White House statement — What's happening behind the buzzwords? AI regulation is following the trajectory I had predicted previously. The biggest companies now have a hand in influencing AI regulation and will be set up for compliance while new companies will face a large barrier to entry. Some of the 'principles' even though they are voluntary are alarming, such as sharing information with governments - its almost an exact repeat of the big tech / government collusion on censorship. Even worse is the deployment of AI technologies to address "society's greatest challenges" such as climate change and cancer prevention. The data to analyze these problems could come from official government sources, or academic sources. With increased information sharing between these parties, we may see future bills and regulations that are influenced by AI. One step closer to a Technocrat's paradise. 🤮 ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

Going live on Steve's Place - who's organizing the Tesla Tech conference! First time streaming to Youtube! Watch us now! https://invidious.takebackourtech.org/channel/UC2lSZKpX1E5aSnOt11BJf3g

⚡️Join #TBOT at the Extraordinary Tech Conference in August @takebackourtech Greetings #TBOT family, You may know that #TBOT is far more than just digital technology. There's a whole world of advanced technologies that are just becoming availble to humanity. Things like antigravity, clean energy, and quantum technology - domains that have often been overlooked or suppressed in the past. Sounds exciting right? For me too, that's why I'll be attending the TeslaTech Conference August 9-13, 2023 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is an in-person conference over 5 days where the brightest scientists and researchers will be sharing their technical discoveries. Come prepared to learn. Join us to explore these groundbreaking topics, and let's discuss privacy tech together. Above Phone will be sponsoring the event, and I will have phones in person. I'll also be interviewing conference speakers for #TBOT. It would be an honor to meet you in person and learn together. You can find the full conference schedule here: https://teslatech.info/ttevents/prgframe.html Conference handout: https://teslatech.info/ttevents/2023conf/2023ETCWEB.pdf 30% Pre-registration Discount Ends July 26! Preregister at: https://teslatech.info/ttevents/prgframe.html For assistance, reach out to Steve at steve@teslatech.info Let them know Above Phone sent you for 30% off the ticket  I'll also be sitting down with Steve this Sunday, July 23 at 8 pm CST on Steve's Podcast where we discuss the age of Big Brother, unleashed AI, and the uncertain future of privacy. You can watch the interview live! (still working to get them off YouTube) Hope to see you in Albuquerque! Have a blessed day, Ramiro Romani, founder of #TBOT & Above Phone ✌️ MORE MEMES | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️NYPD Using Drones to Broadcast Weather Alerts @takebackourtech After weeks of extreme rainfall in New York City, the NYPD began testing "remote-piloted public messaging capabilities" in the Queens borough. These drones will broadcast messages through a loudspeaker, for instance telling people to shelter in place before flooding. Of course there's the stipulation that the drones will only be used in cases of power or telecom failure. We've all heard that one before. The whole situation reminds me of the videos from China where drones were being used to tell people to stay indoors during their lockdowns. Read the article #SurveillanceTech #Police #Drones ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️Filtering 95% of the Dirty Electricity In My Bedroom @takebackourtech I've been sleeping with my head next to an outlet that contained ~300mV of dirty electricity. The resulting electric field extends a few feet around the outlet, over my head at night. Get yourself an Dirty Electricity Meter & Filters Our recent interview on EMR ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

Before and after installing electricity filters in my room, this is the audio output recorded from a dirty electricity meter. Pretty wild. Video uploaded shortly :) ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

Identifying & locating cell towers? Here's how: ✅ Use Antenna Search for local towers (https://www.antennasearch.com/) ✅ Small towers can look like lamp posts ✅ 4G towers? Look for a cylindrical shape on top ✅ 5G antennas resemble vertical pizza boxes Watch the full interview: https://takebackourtech.org/emr-save-a-life/

⚡️New Facial Verification System For Eurostar Railway In London @takebackourtech Eurostar, a European railway system has rolled out an optional facial verification system in St. Pancras Station, London. It will use an app that contains their identity document and scan their face and ticket. Before boarding they will be scanned at a terminal. The train situation out of London has gotten much worse thanks to post-Brexit border checks, and has lead to huge lines that caused many trains to remain empty. This apparently is supposed to make it faster, although bags will still be scanned by staff, and passports will be checked. A perfect example of surveillance state logic. 🙄 Searching people is taking too long, let's scan their faces to make it faster. Read here ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

🪞Love & Strengthen The Weak Parts @takebackourtech I've tried many different fitness routines over the years (martial arts, bodyweight, yoga, sports, weightlifting), one thing I noticed is that my progress always plateaued. It usually had to do with pain coming from a particular body part, I could never get the form completely right. It took me a long time (up until this year 🤦‍♂️) to realize I was running from the weak parts, whether that's the lower back or the tiny muscles of the hips - I felt shame when I could not perform what seemed like an easy task. Have you ever tried fire hydrants, lifting your leg up like a dog peeing?) Now I'm loving and strengthening the weak parts. Giving them more time and attention because they deserve it, and because your body is interconnected and will only perform up to the limits of its weakest point. Everything is interconnected. You could take this idea and apply it to many parts of your life like work, relationships, areas of study. Like being vulnerable, having productive confrontation and so on... Is there an activity you enjoy but dislike a specific aspect of it because you aren't naturally good at it? What would it take to work on it? Laugh at your mistakes, learn from them, and practice. It will get easier and the whole system will improve. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️ AI Used To Catch Drug Trafficker @takebackourtech Out of New York State, police in Westchester County fed data from an ALPR system (automatic license plate recognition) into a new AI-driven 'roadway intelligence' platform called Rekor. Read the article There's 480 ALPR cameras in that region, scanning 16 million cars a week and capture vehicle license plate, number, make, and model. Rekor identifies routes across the state and can mark routes as 'suspicious'. Cops pulled over a suspect in a small upstate town, finding crack cocaine, a gun, and $34K in cash. Rekor has contracts with the Alabama, Florida, Missisippi, Ohio, and Pennsylvania DOTs (Department of Transportation), contracts ranging from 400K to over a million per year. Questions to ask yourself: - How many false positives were there before an actual crime was caught? - What characteristics of a route make it suspicious? ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

what your first Linux install feels like #YearOfLinux 💻 Install today ✌️ MORE MEMES | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️ Satellite Support Coming To Future Androids? @takebackourtech Traces of code related to Satellite Connectivity were found in the recent Android 14 release, as first reported by Mishaal Rahman on Twitter. Currently there's only particular permissions like SATELLITE_COMMUNICATION and BIND_SATELLITE_SERVICE, but no APIs exist for apps to hook into. Mishaal predicts a satellite API will become available in Android 15. We already know that iPhones have satellite connectivity but only for connecting to emergency services. Some people might say we're getting a bit 'too connected', others may be excited for satellite communications in a 'grid-down' scenario (i hear that one way too much...) ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️ChromeOS Has More Than Half of The Desktop OS Linux Market @takebackourtech I was reading this opinion piece on TheRegister today where the author makes the point that ChromeOS has 4.15% of the market while Linux has 3.08%, and that is something that should be celebrated since ChromeOS is technically Linux. — But that's not the case for ChromeOS. Underneath its unique GUI layer – which, unlike the one in macOS, is open source – it's a relatively standard Linux which can run standard Linux apps, out of the box, on both x86 and Arm. As such, it's the most successful desktop Linux there is. It's not a typical Linux, because typical Linuxes are tools for nerdy hacker types, and that kind of OS will never, ever go mainstream unless someone forces people to use it. But in every way that matters, it is mainstream, it is commercially successful, it's a polished end-user desktop OS, and it's a Linux. — There's a few things that point to ChromeOS' success. One, it has millions of dollars to put into distribution so you can buy it at stores. That can't be said for any other Linux distribution. The other is, that people are forced to use it. Especially for schools and the workplace, where Google has strong-armed their Chromebooks. These could total up to millions of computers, no wonder they have a significant market share. Lastly, the author cleverly worded it to imply ChromeOS was open-source when its not, its completely proprietary. We have little idea of what it actually does. Technically, it may be 'Linux' but philosophically its an imposter. Instead of promoting user freedom and choice, ChromeOS and Chromebooks serve as another spy device used to extract information from people, especially your kids without parental consent. They were sued in New Mexico for exactly this reason, and its probably this is happening in every state where Chromebooks are being distributed through schools. While researching this post, I realized there's hardly any discussion of ChromeOS' telemetry. That's worth an investigation. If you have a Chromebook laying around, here's a tutorial to install Linux. Let's take back some of that market share. The article does make a good point that we need a polished end-user desktop OS, I think we are very close to that with the Above Book. ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️ Fedora Wants To Add Telemetry to Its Linux Distribution @takebackourtech A recent proposal by a Fedora developer and Red Had Display Systems Team suggests the inclusion of the Endless OS metrics system into Fedora. The Endless OS system is an optional, anonymous telemetry system where events are recorded locally and submitted to the developer's server. It does not report a specific computer, but an OS image ID which correspond to a specific version of the operating system. The system can record events by individual applications, hardware information, and/or user sessions. The proposal introduces what metrics it might gather, such as clickthrough rate and hardware components metrics in order to improve usability and performance. My take - On one hand, improving software without data or user feedback is definitely a challenge - its almost impossible without actually watching how people use things. And the most common thing i hear from mainstream technology users is that Linux isn't user friendly enough - so would telemetry begin to improve UI? On the other hand, telemetry is a slippery slope - first it gets used to test what settings pages are being used most, but down the line it could be used to optimize certain behaviors on the operating system. There's the added threat that even though the anonymous ID isn't computer specific, the collection of hardware information, what apps they're using could be used to create a fingerprint. A fingerprint is almost guaranteed seeing that eos-phone-home is an additional package that uses hardware vendor & model, current OS version, and a GeoIP lookup, with an ongoing ping every 24 hours. This is used to measure retention, and is already used in Ubuntu - 90% of users have the full metrics enabled. The IP address does get discarded, and the server side code is open source but again we must take their word that its the same code that's running. Its a complex issue, at least there is a lot of discussion happening in the community. I personally think the system should be neutered more and an analysis done of how unique user's fingerprints could be. Interesting points: - The KDE projects allow users to configure how much they want shared - Clear ways to present and disable the telemetry are encouraged What do you think? - share with us on our 🗯 CHAT GROUP - Should open source software offer telemetry to improve their software? - What other ways can OSS get feedback? Link here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320/38 Metrics system: https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/ 🫶 MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🤌🏽 @takebackourtech

⚡️Progressive Web App for F-Droid In Development @takebackourtech The F-Droid team is working on a progressive web app for browsing F-Droid repositories. Progressive Web Apps or PWAs are web applications that look and feel like a mobile app thanks to some tweaks and the ability to add them to the phone's home screen. They're much easier to build than mobile apps. The app is still in development with the following features: -displaying basic repository informations; - Providing a link/QR-code for adding the repository to your F-Droid client; - Browsing and searching for apps; - Displaying app details and app downloads. The most exciting part about this announcement is their plan to expand F-Droid tooling to iOS. This could potentially mean that iOS apps can be distributed through F-Droid. Since the EU is forcing Apple to allow sideloading apps (getting apps from outside the App Store) in a few years, F-Droid could eventually be home to open-source apps on iOS. Read more: https://f-droid.org/en/2023/06/16/progessive-web-client.html Code: https://gitlab.com/uniqx/fdroid-webdash ✌️ MORE POSTS | 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🫶 @takebackourtech

⚡️ Electromagnetic Radiation - Shield & Educate Yourself, Save a Life @takebackourtech We all use wireless devices, but do you really understand their effects on your health? What happens when you take phone calls pressed up to your ear? Or when you use a tablet/computer on your lap? What could happen to children and loved ones? Keep reading, you may just save a life. ⚡️ Read/watch on #TBOT's website ▶️ Watch on Odysee 📕 Read on Substack Today's guest on #TBOT is Bill Cadwallader, a certified Electro Magnetic Radiation Specialist (EMRS) and author of 'Exposed: The Electronic Sickening of America and How To Protect Yourself' and the Quick & Easy EMF Guide, 99 Tips. We'll learn: - The startling health indicators related to EMR - The dangers of industry obsession with wireless and the dangers to children - Privacy considerations in rolling out 5G - How to find cell towers near you - How to identify different types of cell towers - Differences between 5G & 4G - Scientific studies on EMR - Types of radiation - Solutions for minimizing different types of radiation - 10 Tips for an EMF makeover Bill's Website: https://stopdirtyelectricity.com Bill's Books: Exposed - The Electronic Sickening of America Quick & Easy EMF Guide, 99 Tips Buy a phone with an ethernet adapter for negligible radiation: https://abovephone.com 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🤜 @takebackourtech

⚡️GNU/Linux Market Share Rises Above 3% In The US @takebackourtech Recent statistics show a large increase in GNU/Linux usage, not just in the United States but in BRICS countries as well, especially India and China. This may be linked to the many talented OSS developers coming from those countries! The year of Linux is quickly approaching. 🗯 CHAT GROUP | 📩 NEWSLETTER Follow 🤜 @takebackourtech

Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders (Extra!, 7/13). The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse. The Quincy Institute—whose own start-up funding came mainly from George Soros and Charles Koch—looked at 11 months of Ukraine War coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, from March 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023, and counted each time one of 33 leading think tanks was mentioned. Of the 15 think tanks most often mentioned in the war's coverage, only one—Human Rights Watch—does not take funding from Pentagon contractors. Quincy’s analysis found that the media were seven times more likely to cite think tanks with war industry ties than they were to cite think tanks without war industry ties. With 157 mentions each, the top two think tanks were the Atlantic Council and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Both of these think tanks receive millions from the war industry. The Atlantic Council has long been the brain trust of NATO, the military organization whose expansion towards Russia’s borders was a critical factor in Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine. (See FAIR.org, 3/4/22.) Both think tanks receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, companies which have already been awarded billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts as a result of the war in Ukraine... While the study was not aimed at establishing a causal connection between weapons industry funding and the think tanks’ positions, it acknowledges that funding typically plays a major role in shaping the institutions. “Funders,” Freeman wrote, “are able to influence think tank work through the mechanisms of censorship, self-censorship, and perspective filtering.” In other words, people with points of view antithetical to the funders likely would not last long in these think tanks. Causal or not, there is a marked correlation between war industry funding and hawkish positions. “Think tanks with financial ties to the arms industry often support policies that would benefit the arms industry,” the report noted. For example, one Atlantic Council article (2/6/23) advocated against “any compromise with the Kremlin,” while another, titled “Equity for Ukraine” (1/16/23), argued that Ukraine has a “right to destroy critical infrastructure in Russia and plunge Moscow and other cities into darkness.” 🔗Source: FAIR Substack | Twitter | Minds 📡 Follow: @G3News

⚪️ Realtime Blocklist Implemented on Above XMPP @abovephone We're proud to announce that the Realtime Blocklist module in XMPP has been activated on our Above XMPP Service. What's that mean? The Realtime Blocklist is an optional module for XMPP servers that allows a server to download a blocklist of spammers and undesirable accounts on the XMPP network. More info here: https://xmppbl.org/ How it improves your experience? Known spammers will be blocked from joining any and all public rooms on our XMPP server. Currently our only public room is the #TBOT room, at tbot@group.chat.above.im What's next? Keep your eyes peeled as we continue to develop our XMPP offering into a 'Universal Internet Utility' which can be used across mobile, desktop, and even the web browser. 🌌 Want to purchase a professional XMPP service? Click here. Rather sign up to a public server for free? Join here. 💬ASK A QUESTION | 📚 LEARN |📩 NEWSLETTER |🎁 BUY NOW Follow 🤜 @abovephone

⚡️STARTING NOW: Shielding Our Lives from Electromagnetic Radiation with Bill Cadwallader @takebackourtech Every cell in our body relies on finely tuned electromagnetic fields that are responsible for signaling everything from energy production to our heartbeat. Can the multitude of EMR sources in our environment be interfering with this natural system? Can we identify our own levels of pollution? Is there a way to use technology while mitigating exposure? Join us now: https://stream.takebackourtech.org We will be asking Bill Q/A at the end of the interview!