An additional service I would add is https://nadanada.me/ for anonymous UK phone numbers.

Great work from BPUK. The Privacy Toolkit (https://tinyurl.com/37x5s9d8) has excellent default app recommendations. Start to work your way down the list as soon as you can.

Sci-bot is a very useful tool when researching health topics that may be deemed controversial or censored. AI that has full access to Sci-Hub. 🔥 https://x.com/hostis_black/status/2053273670353584132 --- X post content below: In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

Some governments tell you you have to "declare" that you "own" Bitcoin. Now, how the heck do you do that, exactly? In short, knowing a Private Key allows you to request that the network apply a specific alteration to the timechain that "moves" sats from one address to another. But how can knowledge be equivalent to ownership in any legal sense? And what happens if you utter the Private Key in court? Remember - the twelve magic words in a seed phrase are not a password - they ARE the key! Now the entire court will be "guilty" of "owning Bitcoin." And how do you prove that everyone else on Earth DOESN'T know the same twelve words? Under man-made law, Bitcoin ownership is paradoxical. Under Natural Law, the keyholder simply IS the owner. No declaration is required, and no state is needed to validate it. Study Praxeology! Read Rothbard! --- https://x.com/knutsvanholm/status/2052083362999775576

https://grapheneos.org/ is fantastic (compatible with almost all Android apps, but private), and they've just signed with Motorola to make a phone specifically for them, so free of Google and Apple hardware too.

Nature is so beautiful. Even the weeds. I just had this realization that there are no straight lines in beautiful things. The ancient Greeks new this. Their columns are bowed. And try and find a straight line in the modern day Sagrada Familia (Gaudi cathedral).

I don't get it. Why is everyone in the US so obsessed by iOS? You're in a digital cage. This is one area the rest of the world is way ahead.

As the world gets more dysfunctional, make sure you are prepared. You need to do some things before you lose access to the internet. Downloading Project NOMAD is one of those things. https://www.projectnomad.us/