These platforms are super quick to work with law enforcement to hand over data, unless they're covering up for crimes of the deep state.
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⚡️VIDEO: Teams of AI Threaten Humanity
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Check out our latest video to learn how AI is rapidly evolving through the use of Multiple-Agent Systems (MAS). These systems, composed of multiple interacting agents, can perceive their environment and take actions to achieve specific goals.
MAS can compete with one another, leading to a higher learning rate compared to single-agent systems. In the recent NVIDIA GTC keynote conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang suggested a future where socioeconomic outcomes are driven by teams of AIs.
“How do we build software in the future? It is unlikely that you’ll write it from scratch or write a whole bunch of Python code or anything like that…It is very likely that you assemble a team of AIs.” - Jensen Huang
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Check out our latest video to learn how AI is rapidly evolving through the use of Multiple-Agent Systems (MAS). These systems, composed of multiple interacting agents, can perceive their environment and take actions to achieve specific goals.
MAS can compete with one another, leading to a higher learning rate compared to single-agent systems. In the recent NVIDIA GTC keynote conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang suggested a future where socioeconomic outcomes are driven by teams of AIs.
“How do we build software in the future? It is unlikely that you’ll write it from scratch or write a whole bunch of Python code or anything like that…It is very likely that you assemble a team of AIs.” - Jensen Huang
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Interesting read about Walmart's new rollout of digital price tags in 2,300 stores across the US.
If digital price tags hit the shelves, it means prices could change at any time for any reason.
“If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that’s close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that’s the good news,” said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst.
Apps like Uber already use surge pricing, in which higher demand leads to higher prices in real time.
Oh but, don't worry - you'll get more information about the things you're buying. After all, its easier to scan a QR code then to pick up the item and read the back of the label.
While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way.
“To be honest, I don’t think that’s the underlying main driver of this,” Gallino said. “These are companies that tend to have a long-term relationship with their customers and I think the risk of frustrating them could be too risky, so I would be surprised if they try to do that.”
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A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels
With electronic shelf labels, prices can change up to six times a minute. Grocers including Walmart, Whole Foods and Schnucks are adopting them.
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We are so excited to welcome Charles Dowding to The People's Reset: UK!
Charles will be speaking on Friday September 27th as part of the theme Permaculture & Food Independence!
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Charles started organic and no dig market gardening in 1982, on 1.5 acres./ 6000 m². His successful vegetable growing with fewer weeds enabled new understandings, and Charles has appreciated for a long time the benefits of methods he now shares globally. His first book “Organic Gardening” came out in 2007. Then since launching in 2013 the Charles Dowding YouTube channel, he has become aware of the possibilities in ‘new media’ to inspire and inform.
Charles’s most recent book is Compost, out in September 2024 at the same time as his 2025 Calendar of Sowing Dates. He continues to run a 0.4 acre / 1600 m² no dig market garden, at Homeacres UK.
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Charles will be speaking on Friday September 27th as part of the theme Permaculture & Food Independence!
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Charles started organic and no dig market gardening in 1982, on 1.5 acres./ 6000 m². His successful vegetable growing with fewer weeds enabled new understandings, and Charles has appreciated for a long time the benefits of methods he now shares globally. His first book “Organic Gardening” came out in 2007. Then since launching in 2013 the Charles Dowding YouTube channel, he has become aware of the possibilities in ‘new media’ to inspire and inform.
Charles’s most recent book is Compost, out in September 2024 at the same time as his 2025 Calendar of Sowing Dates. He continues to run a 0.4 acre / 1600 m² no dig market garden, at Homeacres UK.
Find Charles' work: charlesdowding.co.uk
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Julian Assange has posted bail and is on his way back home after accepting a plea deal on espionage charges.
I am grateful that Julian can return to his family and continue being an example of hope. In the back of my mind I wonder if his deal sets a precedent for future whistleblowers.
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⚡️VIDEO: Photojacked - US Government Sues Adobe
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Watch our latest video to learn how Adobe's new terms of service allow it to scan, use, share, and sell user content, sparking outrage among creatives. Despite backlash, Adobe insists users own their content, while retaining broad usage rights. The US Department of Justice sued Adobe for deceptive practices, making subscription cancellations difficult and costly. Creatives are now caught between relying on Adobe and dealing with its demanding terms.
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Watch our latest video to learn how Adobe's new terms of service allow it to scan, use, share, and sell user content, sparking outrage among creatives. Despite backlash, Adobe insists users own their content, while retaining broad usage rights. The US Department of Justice sued Adobe for deceptive practices, making subscription cancellations difficult and costly. Creatives are now caught between relying on Adobe and dealing with its demanding terms.
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⚡️Photojacked - US Government Sues Adobe
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Adobe, the software company behind Photoshop, enraged artists and creatives everywhere with their new terms of service earlier this June. All users of Adobe products were forced to accept the terms before they could do anything - even uninstalling the program.
The new terms implied that Adobe would scan users content at any time, using AI. It also gave Adobe a complete license to use the content users created, sharing it and selling it to whomever they wanted.
Despite the public backlash, Adobe doubled down by clarifying the terms on a June 10th blog post. The post emphasized that ‘You own your content’, even though Adobe had a extremely permissible license to the content. They also promised not to train ‘Generative AI’ on customer content, and that the licenses would be ‘narrowly tailored to the activities needed’.
US Department of Justice Sues Adobe
Trusting a big tech company with your private data is like putting your head in the mouth of an crocodile.
After all, this is exactly the path that Meta took when it updated its General AI terms to allow for the use of photos and comments to train its AI models, such as the Meta Llama 3. That means your personal pictures train Meta’s AI. This model is now integrated into Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger, and is nearly impossible to opt-out of.
Only people living in the EU could opt-out under the GDPR, but Meta has previously used dark patterns in their apps to prevent users from leaving easily. This includes re-directions, long confusing legal text, having to explain yourself, and provide additional information. It appears that they’re trying to directly obfuscate legal language by using fancy jargon—making it extremely difficult to withdraw consent.
This type of behavior is normal with companies like Meta and Adobe. This past week Adobe was sued by the US Department of Justice for making it difficult for people to cancel their paid subscriptions. A year long investigation uncovered deceptive business practices that hid information about a huge cancellation fee (50% of the remaining subscription cost) when signing up, creating more obstacles for users through the cancellation process.
Users of Adobe products are in a difficult spot. They’ve built their whole careers around a single software suite which is now being used as leverage to get them to comply with endless demands.
Solutions
This wouldn’t be a #TBOT article without solutions. There are many photo editors and creative tools on Linux.
Here’s a list of software and resources you can use instead of relying on Adobe:
GIMP (Photo / Bitmap Editing) GIMP Books
Krita (Digital Illustration)
Inkscape (Vector Illustration)
KolourPaint (Simpler ‘Paint’ like editing)
DarkTable (Photo Editing)
You can also cancel your Adobe subscription while avoiding the 50% cancellation fee. No joke.
Go to ‘cancel your subscription’. You will see a screen with the cancellation fee. Hit the continue button.
They will offer you a new plan to avoid the cancellation fee. Choose the cheapest one to switch to a new plan.
Here's the loophole: You can cancel any plan for free within two weeks. Cancel the new plan within this period and get your money back for the first month of the new plan.
You've now successfully avoided the fee.
Users who are invested in the Adobe ecosystem struggle to see how they can replace the hydra of Adobe applications. We’re not sure of the right answer either, but at some point Adobe users will have to decide what bursts the abusive software dam.
Until then we can wait for the Adobe terms of service update that comes with an additional cherry-on-top and pinky promise that they won’t train their AI on your photos.
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Adobe, the software company behind Photoshop, enraged artists and creatives everywhere with their new terms of service earlier this June. All users of Adobe products were forced to accept the terms before they could do anything - even uninstalling the program.
The new terms implied that Adobe would scan users content at any time, using AI. It also gave Adobe a complete license to use the content users created, sharing it and selling it to whomever they wanted.
Despite the public backlash, Adobe doubled down by clarifying the terms on a June 10th blog post. The post emphasized that ‘You own your content’, even though Adobe had a extremely permissible license to the content. They also promised not to train ‘Generative AI’ on customer content, and that the licenses would be ‘narrowly tailored to the activities needed’.
US Department of Justice Sues Adobe
Trusting a big tech company with your private data is like putting your head in the mouth of an crocodile.
After all, this is exactly the path that Meta took when it updated its General AI terms to allow for the use of photos and comments to train its AI models, such as the Meta Llama 3. That means your personal pictures train Meta’s AI. This model is now integrated into Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger, and is nearly impossible to opt-out of.
Only people living in the EU could opt-out under the GDPR, but Meta has previously used dark patterns in their apps to prevent users from leaving easily. This includes re-directions, long confusing legal text, having to explain yourself, and provide additional information. It appears that they’re trying to directly obfuscate legal language by using fancy jargon—making it extremely difficult to withdraw consent.
This type of behavior is normal with companies like Meta and Adobe. This past week Adobe was sued by the US Department of Justice for making it difficult for people to cancel their paid subscriptions. A year long investigation uncovered deceptive business practices that hid information about a huge cancellation fee (50% of the remaining subscription cost) when signing up, creating more obstacles for users through the cancellation process.
Users of Adobe products are in a difficult spot. They’ve built their whole careers around a single software suite which is now being used as leverage to get them to comply with endless demands.
Solutions
This wouldn’t be a #TBOT article without solutions. There are many photo editors and creative tools on Linux.
Here’s a list of software and resources you can use instead of relying on Adobe:
GIMP (Photo / Bitmap Editing) GIMP Books
Krita (Digital Illustration)
Inkscape (Vector Illustration)
KolourPaint (Simpler ‘Paint’ like editing)
DarkTable (Photo Editing)
You can also cancel your Adobe subscription while avoiding the 50% cancellation fee. No joke.
Go to ‘cancel your subscription’. You will see a screen with the cancellation fee. Hit the continue button.
They will offer you a new plan to avoid the cancellation fee. Choose the cheapest one to switch to a new plan.
Here's the loophole: You can cancel any plan for free within two weeks. Cancel the new plan within this period and get your money back for the first month of the new plan.
You've now successfully avoided the fee.
Users who are invested in the Adobe ecosystem struggle to see how they can replace the hydra of Adobe applications. We’re not sure of the right answer either, but at some point Adobe users will have to decide what bursts the abusive software dam.
Until then we can wait for the Adobe terms of service update that comes with an additional cherry-on-top and pinky promise that they won’t train their AI on your photos.
Read more here.
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Photojacked, Why Creators Need To Boycott Adobe Photoshop - US Government Sues Adobe
Adobe, the software company behind Photoshop, enraged artists and creatives everywhere with their new terms of service earlier this June. All users of Adobe products were forced to accept the terms before they could do anything - even uninstalling the program.
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Julian Assange’s Biggest Revelations
Julian Assange is finally free. The WikiLeaks co-founder struck a plea deal with American authorities. After more than a decade in prison or under effective house arrest, MintPress looks back at some of the Australian publisher’s most important stories.
Julian Assange is finally free. The WikiLeaks co-founder struck a plea deal with American authorities. After more than a decade in prison or under effective house arrest, MintPress looks back at some of the Australian publisher’s most important stories.
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⚡️VIDEO: Microsoft Recall, Stealing Everthing You've Ever Typed
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Watch our video on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 11 feature, Recall. Part of Copilot+, it takes screenshots every 5 seconds and stores everything you type, including passwords, in plain text. Though not active yet, we recommend disabling it in Windows 11 in the near future or switching to Linux to avoid privacy breaches and exploits. Initially, Recall was to be enabled by default, but after public backlash, Microsoft made it an opt-in feature, adding encryption measures. However, this doesn't erase the concerns about the feature's previous development stages and potential for misuse.
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Watch our video on Microsoft's upcoming Windows 11 feature, Recall. Part of Copilot+, it takes screenshots every 5 seconds and stores everything you type, including passwords, in plain text. Though not active yet, we recommend disabling it in Windows 11 in the near future or switching to Linux to avoid privacy breaches and exploits. Initially, Recall was to be enabled by default, but after public backlash, Microsoft made it an opt-in feature, adding encryption measures. However, this doesn't erase the concerns about the feature's previous development stages and potential for misuse.
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⚡️Hakeem Anwar Joins Fearless Podcast
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TBOT’s Hakeem Anwar caught up with the Texas Boys on the Fearless Podcast recently. He got into how your cell phone is the ultimate invasion of your privacy.
Here are some highlights:
· Hakeem first realized the power of bringing people together using technology when he was tasked with building a Twitter clone in the big tech corporate world.
· He explains meeting activists Derick Broze and John Bush in 2019 and beginning to work on security systems for the Freedom Cell networks.
· He discusses tactics that Chinese hackers would use (overactive spam messages) to make sure people were not able to see event details for the Freedom Cell network in Telegram and therefore would not be able to see sign up links to register for the events.
· How you can use an infrared camera to see how an iPhone takes pictures of your face and environment every 5 seconds.
· How Apple leverages Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT on iPhones in order to leverage training data for invasive privacy tactics (like Apple and Microsoft working closely together).
Listen here: https://rumble.com/v52lj3o-we-need-to-talk.html
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TBOT’s Hakeem Anwar caught up with the Texas Boys on the Fearless Podcast recently. He got into how your cell phone is the ultimate invasion of your privacy.
Here are some highlights:
· Hakeem first realized the power of bringing people together using technology when he was tasked with building a Twitter clone in the big tech corporate world.
· He explains meeting activists Derick Broze and John Bush in 2019 and beginning to work on security systems for the Freedom Cell networks.
· He discusses tactics that Chinese hackers would use (overactive spam messages) to make sure people were not able to see event details for the Freedom Cell network in Telegram and therefore would not be able to see sign up links to register for the events.
· How you can use an infrared camera to see how an iPhone takes pictures of your face and environment every 5 seconds.
· How Apple leverages Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT on iPhones in order to leverage training data for invasive privacy tactics (like Apple and Microsoft working closely together).
Listen here: https://rumble.com/v52lj3o-we-need-to-talk.html
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Ep. 55: Your Cell Phone - The Ultimate Invasion Of Your Privacy
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This week I was on Brighteon with Mike Adams to promote the new Above Book. We've been collaborating on a special edition on Above Book that has Brighteon.AI pre-configured and ready to go. Mike and I had a lot of fun asking it a lot of questions across nutrition, health, and some questions that should really be kept private. It was the first demo for either of us and I think it went pretty well.
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Hakeem from Above Phone demos powerful new privacy-focused “ABOVE BOOK” notebook computer at Brighteon studios
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- Ships with our Neo LLM pre-installed!
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Hakeem from Above Phone demos powerful new privacy-focused “ABOVE BOOK” notebook computer at Brighteon studios
To learn more, visit: AbovePhone.com/Brighteon- New privacy-focused Linux-based notebook and phone features. (0:01)- Linux distribution, AI, and privacy concerns. (5:04)- AI model's ability to answer questions on various topics, including history, botany…
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Worldcoin: Sam Altman's Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends' Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them.
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Worldcoin: Sam Altman's Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends' Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them.
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Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy?
More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends' Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know…