Your weekly tech update! Tonight, the FCC, Google, and the UK Government make big moves against private and free technology. The hits don’t stop — keep ’em coming, and we’ll keep the solutions coming on #TBOT. Watch on Substack Bye Bye Burner Phones?: A new FCC rule threatens to end phone anonyminity by demanding IDs when getting a…
A new arrangement has been set between the derivatives regulator and professional hockey, following on the heels of a similar baseball agreement. What to know: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has secured a memorandum of understanding with the National Hockey League to share information connected to prediction market betting. The MOU is the latest…
This is why you should never talk to the police. In this episode of The Free Thought Project podcast, Jason and Matt sit down with Marc and Craig Wasserman, better known to the world as the Pot Brothers at Law. Quick note before diving in: you may notice some brief audio issues in the opening…
The FDA fired Tracy Beth Høeg, the agency’s top drug regulator and a staunch advocate for vaccine safety. It’s the latest in a string of high-profile exits from the agency, many of which followed the appointment of Chris Klomp as HHS’ No. 2 official, Reuters reported. TrialSite News suggested the departures were “associated” with the…
When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company declined to disclose the software-end of its surveillance machine. Their reticence may be related to the FRT industry’s deep ties to the national security state — leaving consumers’ data just a knock away…
Michael Saylor and team added 24,869 BTC last week, bringing total holdings to 843,738 coins. What to know: Strategy last week purchased 24,869 BTC for about $2.01 billion, or an average price of roughly $80,985 per coin. The purchase brings Strategy’s total holdings to 843,738 BTC, acquired for about $63.867 billion at an average cost…
The ICU Before Sunrise The intensive care unit (ICU) was crowded before sunrise, again. After 40 years in medicine, I am not sure what “full” even means anymore. Every ICU now feels just one patient away from disaster. Patients wait in emergency departments for beds that do not exist. Another transfer is already on the…
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Behind a UN-backed prisoner exchange between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthis lies a deeper story of islands, radar, black sites, and a southern Yemen security order Riyadh chose to dismantle after years of coalition decay. This proxy network stretching from Yemen’s Socotra Island to Bosaso on Somalia’s coast, across the maritime corridor between…
The infrastructure for the global digital control grid that was slowly being constructed over the past five years is now in the acceleration and implementation phase: perspective There can be no globally shared AI infrastructure or digital embassies without giving data centers all the land, energy, and water they need, according to the World Economic…
First, there were the Wuhan bats. Now they’re talking about the Hanta rats. Kill Gates specializes in killer mosquitoes and now he’s managed to find a new way to promote his lab burgers and cricket tacos: TICKS. In today’s video, Stew Peters and I talk about the Rockefeller 2035 agenda, and how to bypass their…
