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Today is KDE's 30th birthday! Happy birthday to my favorite desktop environment.

I remember when I first played with Kubuntu in 2016, having my mind blown at the magic of community driven software development. In terms of design, features and substance, it was miles ahead of Windows. My favorite feature was the virtual desktops, combined with the Cube effect, which would flip desktops by rotating your screen as a cube.

I never looked back.

Seeing it work as well as it did gave me the confidence that open-source development wasnt just an alternative - but actually far better.

When we built Above Book in 2023, choosing KDE as our desktop environment was the obvious choice and has served thousands of our customers well (with a few quirks ;))

I have deep respect in my heart for the KDE team and can't wait to see what comes next.

Check out KDE's documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9mx4g
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Discover-Tech is a Bridge Between Mercenary Spyware Companies and the Advertising Ecosystem

We present technical evidence that the Israel-based company Discover-Tech, while purporting to be a legitimate advertising company, appears to be a front for large-scale ad espionage abuse, including the automatic delivery of mercenary spyware when ads are displayed to a target and the mass profiling and deanonymization of users.

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

When we say no ads on our devices, its not just a personal preference. Its a cornerstone of your privacy & security.
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⚡️Less Screen Time, Better Outcomes

Two large studies found something worth paying attention to: limited phone use may have some benefits, but once usage climbs past a certain point, the outcomes start getting worse.

For students, more time on social media, gaming, and browsing was associated with lower math scores after that threshold. Another study of 40,000 adolescents found a similar “Goldilocks” pattern across stress, sleep, depression, and other measures.

This clip is from our webinar, Breaking Out of Tech Addiction.

Do you limit your screen time?

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You’ve taken steps to protect your digital privacy. What about the rest of your life?

There are powerful solutions hidden in plain sight. We’re talking about lawful remedies—often buried under decades of confusion, gatekeeping, and misinformation.

We’re partnering with Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship (SHEF) to share an educational process we’ve experienced firsthand.

Join our Lawful Privacy Webinar on October 20 at 7 PM CDT, hosted by Hakeem with Michael Joseph, Daniel Mentz, and the SHEF team.

We’ll explore:
• The hidden layer of freedom beyond digital privacy
• What “lawful remedy” really means
• The difference between privacy and self-determination
• Practical steps toward greater personal independence

Bring your questions for a live Q&A and learn where to start—even without a legal background.

👉Free to attend. Register:
https://abovephone.com/webinar/
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They’re Baaacck: The Rogue AIs will continue until regulation improves.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the web – the Rogue AI agents are back, those cheeky little scamps, and getting up to their old tricks.

That’s according to OpenAI, anyway, and why would they lie?

It’s suddenly been a busy week or so on the AI front, with Anthropic publishing their (very, very dull) report on their supposed rogue AI “break out”.

Apparently one of their agents submitted a fake homicide tip to the Philadelphia Police Department. Another submitted 20 visa applications to the department of immigration.

The…...

Read full article ...

https://off-guardian.org/2026/10/19/theyre-baaacck-the-rogue-ais-will-continue-until-regulation-improves/
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⚡️️️️Hands-on with the Great Elements-Ep.6 Part 2

The Great Elements Part 2 is a dynamic and helpful dialogue, picking up the practical pieces where Part 1 left off. Hakeem gets Nicole to break down the Doshas in real time using actual client examples, giving the opportunity to apply the laws of Nature according to the Dosha.

This episode unpacks powerful insights into the importance of understanding Dosha, and how Nicole uses this analysis to support healing - even in our current time of chemical toxins and unseen EMF radiation. Ayurveda has never been more relevent or valuable, and the Real World Ayurveda podcast aims to empower and educate for your exit from sick-care.

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⚡️ 40% of America’s Power For What?

On Manova we got into what all this AI compute is actually being built for.

I don’t buy that consumers are going to use it all. Planned AI data centers could demand around 200 GW, roughly 40% of today’s U.S. power supply, while AI is increasingly being framed as national-security infrastructure in a race with China.

So if this is an AI arms race, why are our power bills, water supplies, and communities footing the bill?

📺 Watch the full episode
📖 Read the full AI Data Center Ecology Report
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Stop feeding big tech, Above can help

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📣 Today's the last day.

At midnight tonight, Exit & Build 6 tickets go to their final price. We've had them at a couple of discount levels to help you save a buck and get folks off the fence, and that window closes tonight.

No more discounts. No more price drops. This is it.

https://exitandbuild.com

So let me make the case straight up.

But first, forget the schedule for a second and picture how this actually feels.

It's Thursday evening. You've driven in or flown into San Antonio and ridden the shuttle out, and the beautiful Texas hill country opens up around you. You step onto 200 acres and the first thing you notice is that nobody out here is pretending. Nobody's bracing for the conversation where they have to soften what they actually think.

That knot you've been carrying starts to loosen. The one you stopped noticing years ago because it's just always been there.

Then Alec Zeck opens us up, and he gets you. Really gets you. You're sitting there inspired and a little choked up and not entirely sure why. And 30 minutes later he's behind the DJ decks and you're dancing under the stars with a few hundred people who feel exactly the same way.

Friday morning you wake up on the land. Coffee, cold air, sun coming up over the hills. Breakfast made from food grown fifty yards away, and you pay for it with silver, and nobody blinks.

Then Doug and Stacy say something that breaks something loose in you. Probably something about how you've been studying and planning and researching for years when you could have just bought the land and figured it out. And you feel it strongly, because you know it's true.

Friday afternoon you're sitting down with Hakeem from Above Phone, working through the privacy problem you've been meaning to fix since 2021. Not hearing about it. Fixing it. He's right there.

Saturday Joel Skousen hits you with a hard dose of reality. He's eighty years old and he's been doing this since 1979 and he's not interested in making you comfortable. You walk out of that one with a very different sense of urgency than you walked in with.

Then you spend an hour and a half in a Sacred Honor workshop and the private realm stops being a thing you've heard of and starts being something with actual steps attached to it.

By that point you've done something you've been putting off for two years. Not read about it. Done it. And there's a specific feeling that comes with that, the one where you realize it was never as hard as the story you'd built around it.

Saturday night you're at the fire catching up with Mike Winner and Jason Crowe talking shop about Qortal. Music going. Then later, somebody you met Thursday is telling you about the land they just closed on, you're telling them about yours, and it's one in the morning and you had no idea.

Sunday, David Avocado Wolfe and Curtis Stone get you thinking on a whole other level. Not tips. Not tactics. The kind of thing that rearranges how you see the next ten years of your life.

And then you drive home with a notebook full of next steps, a phone full of numbers, and the thing that actually matters: you're no longer the only one.

That's what I'm selling. The rest is logistics.

Who's going to be out there.

David Avocado Wolfe, thirty years deep with over a million fruit trees in the ground through his foundation. Joel Skousen, author of Strategic Relocation, doing a talk plus a full workshop where you can ask him about your own property. Curtis Stone on the community he's building from scratch in Central America. Doug and Stacy, seventeen years off-grid, who got there by paying cash for land and living in a tent while Doug built a cabin by hand in 90 days.

Plus Alec Zeck, Mollie Engelhart, Mike Winner of Qortal, Jeremy Cordon of Goldback, Hakeem Anwar of Above Phone, Andy Schoonover of CrowdHealth, Matt Powers, Scott Armstrong, and the entire Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship crew.

What makes this different.

The implementation zones. You don't take notes and go home hoping. You sit down with somebody who's already done it and you do the thing right there.
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Only 10 Days Until Ticket Prices Increase for The People's Reset 2027!

Get yours now: https://thepeoplesreset.org
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People issues are solved with people power.

Talk to your neighbors. Know your council members. Learn how data centers get approved in your town—before there’s a vote.

Get the report: https://aidatacentermap.org/
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⚡️️️️How to Be Sick - Real World Ayurveda Ep.7

Episode 7 is aimed towards empowering your exit from the failed sick care system. Hakeem and Nicole discuss the mindset of successful sickness/detox. Supporting your body to remove harmful waste and becoming all the stronger for it is the hallmark of independence medicine and healing.

This informative episode not only inspires courage, but is packed with accessible and practical remedies. True to the ethos of Real World Ayurveda, when you learn how to be sick in the real world, the power is in YOUR hands.

Be sure to also read the “Learn How To Be Sick” article, as it presents the foundation of this important conversation, along with additional information not discussed on this Podcast.

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Winter is coming! Learn how to be sick. Watch our latest episode of Real World Ayurveda.
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I'm in paradise. Yes, it still exists, even though the world seems to be breaking at the seams. Even though my world too, at times, feels like it is coming apart at the seams.

Paradise lost. We are here to revive it.

I have dedicated nearly the last four years of my life to building a community in my motherland. And I tell you, this has been some of the most enriching, most inspiring and most testing times of my life. Most communities die within the first couple of years, because internal conflicts ensue and the foundations are not strong enough to support it.

The complexity of the human experience, the myriad of unique perceptions and personalities that build the organism that is a community, truly has a life of its own. Every member is a cell who in some shape or form creates and feels the currents of the whole. The signals of misunderstandings or unresolved conflicts travel through the web of connectedness until everything is brought into clarity once again. Depending on the spirit that is co-created, the community can be brought into chaos or harmony in an instant.

What is preventing most communities from moving forward in a harmonious way? We have lost our sense of belonging. As a species, we don't know how to co-regulate or how to trust each other. If you look at a school of fish or a flock of migrating birds, they move in unison. Their individual senses melt into a higher sense, a common sense, an invisible force that guides them towards their shared goal. Where each maintains their own space while consciously moving toward the same direction.

This kind of harmony requires an equal amount of determined action and humility. One must be dedicated enough to want to serve the common good and humble enough to adapt one's individual desires with the shared goals. How to be unapologetically you, while honouring the harmony of the whole? How to maintain your identity while bowing down to the collective?

This is what we are here to practise, from the familial level to the level of our communities and the larger tapestry of life. Our families and tribes have become fragmented, separated, alienated. Too much generational pain. Too much violence. Even still, there is suffering of unimaginable scale on this beautiful Earth. And yet, somehow in the midst of all of this, we are called to return to each other and learn to trust again.

Some say the Amazon rainforest is the work of human hands. That it is an ancient permaculture design, created in perfect harmony with the principles of Nature. This is what I see. Within our hands lives the power to destroy and the power to create. It is up to each of us which force we serve.
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⚡️When Every Database Becomes One Database

I told Oto Gomes why I see platforms like Palantir as a new surveillance paradigm: separate pieces of information—your car, property, relationships, location—can be connected into one investigative picture.

Privacy changes dramatically when the question isn’t what one database knows about you, but what happens when all of them start talking to each other.

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Build your digital life on technology designed for privacy

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Yes!!! I started a local independent online PMA newspaper in Mount Shasta City called the Mount Shasta Observer, with a section called "Council Watch." I go to the meetings and offer summaries to supporting members!

This is the front line, and I am on it, in my city!

https://mountshastaobserver.com/welcome-to-council-watch-a-new-column-in-the-mount-shasta-observer/ 😁
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Big Wireless And The Harms Of EMF Radiation

In Chapter 5 of The Pyramid Of Power, journalist and filmmaker Derrick Broze examines the impact of big wireless, and the health consequences of wireless radiation on the public.

Watch the full episode here:
Chapter 5 - Big Wireless

Watch the entire Pyramid Of Power series at ThePyramidOfPower.net

Brought to you by The Conscious Resistance Network
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For those using Proton:

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

Andy Yens comments on Slack:
“So go on there with your personal account and comment to set the record straight,” he wrote. “Perception is more important than truth, the truth doesn’t matter if you don’t win on perception.”

One employee told 404 Media, “Whatever persona Andy [Yen] has out of Proton, he’s a straight up bully inside. He routinely breaks his little facade in Slack and calls people losers and stupid, often for stuff he’s paying them for.”
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