#TBOT: Take Back Our Tech

⚡️Total Information Awareness

In a recent chat on the True Health Report, I dove into the concept of Total Information Awareness. Originally a DARPA project, the idea was to track and simulate global events by integrating vast data sources. We explore how modern AI applications, like Palantir’s systems, reflect that vision, blending public and private data for comprehensive surveillance. It’s a fascinating discussion on privacy, technology, and the implications for our future.

🤔 When surveillance is built through private companies instead of governments, who is actually accountable?

🔗 Watch the full interview here

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Happy New Year 🎉 - its already 2026?!

Wishing you all peace, safety, and clarity for the important year ahead. ❤️

Navigating Privacy: How Above Phone Keeps You in Control

In a recent discussion on Redacted, we talked about how Above phone empowers you to maintain privacy and control over your data. We explore how big tech, like Google, often pushes features that are enabled by default, compromising your privacy. With Above Phone, you get a de-Googled experience that disconnects your device from Google's update stream, ensuring no unwanted background data sharing.

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⏰ Today is the LAST DAY of our Holiday Sale.

Start the new year off in the right direction — with technology that supports your autonomy instead of quietly undermining it.

If you’ve been meaning to move away from surveillance-based tech, this is your final opportunity to do it with Holiday pricing. The window closes tonight.

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Bringing Enoch AI to Your Device

A little while back, I joined Mike Adams on The Health Ranger Report to talk about something we’re pretty proud of: we’ve rolled out a line of Above Phones and Above Books with the Enoch AI model built right in. It's a 12-billion parameter powerhouse that runs entirely offline, giving you all the AI smarts without any of the privacy trade-offs. If you’re looking to keep your queries out of the cloud and on your own terms, this is the way to do it.

Check it out at abovephone.com/brighteon and see how we’re making AI both smart and private.

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🤳Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search Is Technocratic Behavior

In this discussion on Redacted, we look at how centralized, cloud-dependent AI on smartphones becomes a tool for surveillance. Features like Apple’s Enhanced Visual Search analyze user photos at scale, often enabled by default, without consent and tied into opaque data pipelines users don’t meaningfully control.

This isn’t a critique of AI as a technology — it’s a critique of who runs it and where it lives. When AI operates inside big-tech ecosystems, tied to identity, cloud services, and data collection, it becomes technocratic infrastructure.

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🔐Talking the Clarity Act on The Higherside Chats

Recently talked with Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats about something I’m calling the “Patriot Act for Crypto.” We broke down how the Clarity Act, which started as an anti-CBDC move, is morphing into a tool to crack down on privacy coins and decentralized exchanges. Instead of a central bank digital currency, think “Amazon Coin” or “Walmart Coin,” with new rules that basically make it illegal to “split the bill” in crypto without jumping through regulatory hoops.

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A Unique Look at Russia’s Biometric ID Web

I was recently on Corbett Report’s #SolutionsWatch and we dug into how Russia’s new online age verification is really a whole web of state-controlled biometrics. Instead of a simple app, they’ve pieced together a “Gosuslugi” system that’s a public-private mashup, layering bank-collected biometrics into a national database.

Check out my digital ID report to learn more!

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🪪 What Do We Actually Mean by “Digital ID”?

In a recent interview on Geopolitics and Empire, we break down something that’s started to be talked about more, but is still rarely defined clearly: what “Digital ID” actually is.

In this clip, I explain how digital ID goes far beyond an app or credential, tying together data, surveillance, access, and control—and why it’s becoming a foundational layer of modern governance.

Do you see digital ID as convenience or control?

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THC and Digital ID

I was recently on The Higherside Chats to talk about the global push for the digital ID and how it fits into a much larger technocratic framework.

If you want to learn more check out the full interview and get my digital Id report to protect yourself with the knowledge of what’s already here, what’s to come and how to resist.

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🤖Aaron Day on the #TBOT Show: Bitcoin, Surveillance & the Myth of Financial Privacy

In our latest #TBOT Show interview, I sat down with Aaron Day—founder of the Daylight Freedom Foundation and creator of projects like Technocracy Atlas, Freedom Forge, and Oasara.

We dive into the surveillance realities baked into Bitcoin, the lesser-known history of the network, and how regulation and enforcement are reshaping what many still believe is a private, sovereign financial system. Aaron challenges long-held assumptions and explains why simply “using crypto” is no longer enough if freedom is the goal.

In the second half (for paid Substack members), the conversation widens to the rise of AI—how it intersects with finance, surveillance, and governance, and why these systems shouldn’t be viewed in isolation.

It’s a conversation that pushes beyond surface-level narratives and asks bigger questions about autonomy, power, and the future we’re collectively building.

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Our friend Aaron Day just dropped his new project: https://ownnothing.org/

Its a really good resource to pass to someone who is just waking up. It explores the different dimensions of the "own nothing" scam and educates a layperson on how it was rolled out over time.

I'll be releasing a new interview with Aaron this week where we discuss the fall of Bitcoin, AI, and his various projects! 🔥

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How Deep Does the Surveillance State Really Go?

I sat down with Redacted to break down how modern surveillance actually works — and why your phone and laptop have quietly become the most powerful tracking devices ever created.

If you’re serious about protecting your privacy and reducing your digital footprint, this is a good conversation.

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✋Biometric Surveillance: The Next Chapter of Digital Control

So here’s what I shared with Billy from Permaculture Pimpcast: if COVID was just the prequel, then biometric surveillance is the main event. Almost every country is heading toward digital IDs with biometric keys, and it’s basically the final layer of control. I’ve seen it firsthand in the EU’s new entry-exit systems, and it’s like something out of sci-fi. This is the infrastructure that could end up controlling everything from travel to social credit.

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🌳A Tree’s Response to Love

A good gardener feeds and waters their plants. A great one knows love is an essential nutrient.

New research from the HeartMath Institute suggests that focused love and appreciation can measurably affect the health of trees. Using sensors placed in tree trunks, researchers tracked electrical rhythms tied to tree vitality.

In one study, a small group spent 10 minutes a day sending love to a single tree. Its electrical activity rose almost immediately and stayed elevated. In another experiment, hundreds of people from around the world did the same—non-locally—and the trees still responded.

The findings suggest something profound: focused attention and heartfelt intention may influence living systems, even across distance.

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📱 THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET WORKS FOR THEM — unless you decide otherwise.

I recently joined The Aaron Day Show to talk about our phones. These devices have become the gateway to surveillance, control, and subtle behavioral shaping.

In our conversation, I broke down why mainstream phones are built the way they are, what that means for personal autonomy, and why degoogling isn’t just a tech choice — it’s a statement about who gets to shape your life.

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🗼5G Is Coming Soon

The American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025 (H.R. 2289) has been introduced in Congress. If it passes, state and local governments will lose their ability to stop 5G small-cell installations in their communities.

These aren’t traditional cell towers. “Small Personal Wireless Service Facilities” are compact 5G mmWave antennas mounted under 50 feet—on light poles, traffic signals, buildings. You’ve likely already seen them without realizing it.

The bill overrides local regulations and streamlines approvals.

This dense 5G infrastructure is a key layer for cameras, sensors, robotics, drones, and AI-driven surveillance—while impacts on people, animals, and the environment are an afterthought.

Raise the alarm. Share this locally.

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