Monero Is Being Selfishly Mined

As the Qubic atack goes into its second week, we're seeing evidence of 'selfish-mining'. This happens when an attacker has a sizable proportion of hashrate and rejects orphaned blocks that are not their own.

Here's a picture from Monero Consensus showing what that looks like on the blockchain. Notice many miners had accepted the organic 'green' chain, but was rejected by the attackers.

This isn't as damaging as a 51% attack where an attacker could stop transactions and double spend - but its still quite alarming.

Thanks to Rucknium from the Monero Research Lab who built this consensus app: https://moneroconsensus.info/
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⚡ What It’s Like to Be EMF-Sensitive
From our webinar: Stress-Free Approach to Electromagnetic Radiation

Some people experience real, physical symptoms from exposure to electromagnetic fields—this is known as EMF hypersensitivity.

In this clip, we talk about how EMFs can affect the body more intensely for certain individuals—causing issues like headaches, fatigue, anxiety, and brain fog. It’s not just in their head. The impact is real, and more common than most people realize.

Understanding this is key to creating safer, more conscious tech environments for everyone.

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⚡️AGPL is not FOSS

Security researcher Jeffrey Paul – known for exposing macOS OCSP tracking of every Mac user and the apps they opened – is taking aim at the Affero GNU Public License (AGPL).

Released in 2007, the AGPL was meant to close a GPL loophole for “providers” like AWS who run Free Software in the cloud without distributing it. It obligates them to publish any changes they make.

The Free Software Foundation wanted this, but Paul argues it violates the first principle of Free Software: the freedoms are permissions, not obligations. It’s also not viable to follow AGPL in a normal development flow, which would need to update a link to the source in real time, as soon as changes were made.

We use AGPL software for Above Share. We felt that this was great from a privacy perspective, but I can see Pauls point - it doesn’t feel like a license, it feels like more restrictions.

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🪪 “It is the linchpin that brings everything together”

What is one key factor regarding digital ID that almost nobody seems to be talking about?

Interoperability.

Credit to the Independent Media Alliance, with whom I have no affiliation, as well as Iain Davis and Whitney Webb who have summarised this information better than anybody I've come across.

Thank you to Ryan Cristián for permission to sample the audio from this panel discussion.

I highly recommend you check out the full conversation here.

⚡️21-year-old Inventor of Plastoline Fears for His Safety

Julian Brown is the 21-year-old backyard inventor of Plastoline. Starting in his backyard, he created an end-to-end process that turns plastic into fuel.

Back in July, Julian released a video saying he was under attack, that odd things were happening, and he asked viewers to pray for him. Shortly after, Julian went silent.

It turns out, he had gone into hiding—scared for his safety.

The process that Julian and others use is called depolymerization. It typically uses heat, pressure, and catalysts—and it’s not new.

Today there are many companies that are taking on the mission of turning plastics into fuel.

And somehow, a 21-year-old with nothing but a microwave reactor and raw determination is showing the world what’s possible—and it’s incredibly inspiring.

What would you create if you had zero funding but unlimited time and curiosity?

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⚡ How to Break Free from Digital Addiction

At The People's Reset in Morelia, I shared real-world solutions for reclaiming your mind and attention. A 30-day digital detox can reset your brain chemistry, Yes, withdrawals will happen. But you can rebuild intentional habits:

📵 Keep your phone in another room during deep work
📆 Schedule your usage
📊 Use mindful tools like Usage Direct or RescueTime
🔐 Create sandboxed profiles using GrapheneOS

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⚡️#TBOT 10: Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments, Police Surveillance at Your Hardware Store, Build Your Own Pay Phone, Private FOSS Keyboard

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Here’s the stories for the week:

Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments: An anonymous group has release Pt 1 of their data leak and analysis from Meta’s Integrity Labs.

Your Favorite Stores Surveil for the Police: A recent records request indicated that “Flock” license plate cameras have been installed at 171 Lowe’s and Home Depot hardware stores across the country.

Build Your Own Pay Phone: Electrical engineer Patrick Schlott installed 3 free pay phones for anyone who wants to use them in his town.

Solutions: Want a private FOSS keyboard? We take a look at Heliboard and some upgrades like voice typing, swipe, and more.

We’ll be publishing full posts and clips of each of these stories soon.

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📱 Migrating to an Above Phone — What to Know

During the Shield Your Body webinar, I explained how to safely migrate from your old phone to an Above Phone. We walk you through copying files—like photos or documents—via USB, without connecting to Google, Apple, or Wi-Fi. The result? A clean, private start with minimal risk of identity leaks.

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⚡ Your Phone Is Disrupting Your Mind—Even When It's Off

During my talk at The People’s Reset, I shared research showing how just having a phone in the room—powered off or on airplane mode—can weaken your focus and performance.

Notifications fracture our attention, and studies now show smartphone-addicted students experience lower levels of deep learning and flow state. Plus, we’re offloading memory to our devices, a phenomenon called digital amnesia.

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⚡️New Leak Uncovers AI-Assisted Mass Censorship on Facebook

Whistleblowers say Meta’s takedown system was hijacked. After Oct 7, the Israeli gov flooded Meta with thousands of post reports. Approved 94% of the time, this “poisoned” the AI into auto-censoring Palestine-related content worldwide.

ICW estimates 38.8M posts were removed not for violations, but because the model was over-trained on biased reports.

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Big Announcement Coming for The People's Reset 2026!

Tickets are currently on sale for the biggest solutions focused gathering of the year!

We're still 5 months away but our team is working hard on creating an amazing experience for you! Expect more family fun, more top notch speakers, more workshops, more activities for women, and much more!

We will be making a big announcement about latest addition to the music lineup very soon. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, head over to our website to get your tickets now before prices go up on September 1st!

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⚠️ Is the Threat Real?

On the Man in America podcast, I was asked whether concerns about a Chinese-style social credit system or digital ID prison in the U.S. are just conspiracy—or something more. With Palantir securing massive military contracts and Big Tech execs being sworn into the Army Reserves, it’s no longer hypothetical. The infrastructure is being built now.

Digital ID, predictive policing, AI surveillance—this is the real threat of our decade.

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⚡ Simple Ways to Reduce EMF from Your Phone
From our webinar: Stress-Free Approach to Electromagnetic Radiation

Your phone is one of the biggest sources of EMF exposure—but with a few mindful habits, you can greatly reduce its impact.

In this clip, we share practical tips:
📵 Use speakerphone or earbuds—don’t hold it to your head
🌙 Keep your phone out of the bedroom while you sleep
✈️ Turn on airplane mode when not in use
🚫 Avoid keeping it directly on your skin
These small changes can lead to a big difference in your long-term well-being.

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Researchers at UCSF recently disabled a gene in mice that controls "AMCase," the enzyme that breaks down chitin (found in insect protein). Without AMCase, the mice developed inflammation, lung disease and died UNLESS researchers "reverted" the genetic change or fed AMCase nasally.

The WEF has been pushing insect protein (Eat ze bugs!), and over the past few years, it has quietly entered the corporate food supply across the EU and even US.

When we see gene-altering mRNA now in pharmaceuticals and even food (see Terrana!), and chitin increasingly being added to the food, it's worth asking, with some high-octane speculation:

- Is FOOD being used to deliver a binary weapon in the depopulation agenda?

- Is chitin being introduced into the food supply precisely as human biology is being re-engineered to make it an even more potent toxin?

It sounds wild, but then, crazy proposals, like WEF-linked "bioethicist" Matthew Liao suggestion to engineer TINY humans to be allergic to MEAT to reduce our carbon footprint, reveal the technocrats really do think this way.

If the food supply is being weaponized against us, there is no better time to start gardening, raising animals, and returning to nature and truly regenerative solutions -- and I mean real ones, not the WEF's CRISPR-fueled biodigital convergence dressed up as sustainability.

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⚡ Palantir for Cars Hits U.S. Hardware Stores

Have you driven to the hardware store recently? If you have, your car may be in a searchable database thanks to Flock cameras. These systems scan every license plate, detect gunshots, and provide live footage to police.

All data feeds into Nova, a Palantir-like search platform where cops can look up things like “brown SUV with a dented door.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request and handed the data over to 404.media who first reported on this.

They produced a PDF showing police departments and locations that use Flock cameras, including 171 Home Depot and Lowe’s locations across the United States.

I ran the document through OCR, uploaded it to the Internet Archive, and made it searchable (the first page is a bit garbled, but the rest is readabable.) Check to see if your store is on the list:

https://archive.org/details/flock-cameras-hardware-stores

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The People's Reset 2026 is happening January 29th to February 2nd in Morelia, Mexico.

This is the biggest solutions-focused gathering featuring 30 plus presenters from Mexico, the US, Canada, and Europe, as well as more than 60 workshops, family activities, conscious music, and lots of community!

We are working hard on putting together the best line up of community visionaries, solutionaries, vibe raisers, thought leaders, permaculturists, and activists.

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NEW Podcast - The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek

Whitney and John Klyczek discuss how Big Tech, led by the PayPal Mafia, and neo-conservative think tanks are converging to influence Trump administration education policy and education financing.

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⚡️Resurgence of FreePhones (Free Payphones)

In rural Vermont, electrical engineer Patrick Schlott built 3 “FreePhones” after noticing poor cell service. His company RandTel converts plain old telephone service into digital signals and broadcasts them online, allowing anyone to make a call.

Inspired by PhilTel (Philly) and Futel (Portland), these community phones don’t surveil users. Some even use VPNs.

Futel explains: “Denial of telephony services has long been a tactic against undesirable populations… we will help establish a new era of communication.”

At TBOT & Above Phone, we align with this vision. Like FreePhones, our internet numbers don’t require personal info, aren’t tied to towers, and let you run multiple numbers on one device. Best of all, this internet phone number is built right into the Above Suite—a complete solution for private, flexible communication.

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