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Nicomo

The #US is threatening to #disconnect #Ukraine from Starlink if it refuses a minerals deal , #Reuters reports.

According to the publication, during a meeting between US Special Representative Keith Kellogg and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine was told that without signing an agreement, the satellite communication service could inevitably be disconnected.

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Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug

#KRITIS Sektor #Energie

The Baltics are ready to join the European #energy system in order to achieve complete #independence in the realm of energy supply

"Since Russia's #invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the #risks facing the Baltic energy system have increased. In order to mitigate these, the Baltic energy system will #disconnect from Russia's unified energy system (the so-called #BRELL transmission system) and join the European system..."
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DoomsdaysCW

/Beginrant Personally, I use my laptop for browsing. But when I'm not near it, I jot down notes for things to research, songs I've heard on the radio (usually #WMPG), or news stories I've heard on #DemocracyNow. I've weaned myself off of expecting/wanting likes (especially on the Meta sites), and when I do check here (which is where I do spend most of my online time), notifications don't give me a high since I receive notifications about a few accounts, and not just my posts that have been liked or boosted. I do have a smartphone that I use for emergencies, or to text a friend when I'm running late, etc., but I've taken Messenger off, and pretty much just use Flora and Merlin to identify plants and birds (and take photos, though I have a DSLR on hand for those). The other day, a co-worker got mad at me because they wanted to call me, and had to wait for me to turn on my smartphone (my physical phone is now in the reception area). It's that kind of impatience that concerns me. People expect you to be connected 24/7, and maybe folks want to be connected 24/7 (or are afraid not to be). And yeah, are smart phones making us dumber? I think so. And making us impatient and anxious. Ugh! /endrant

Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting There

A silent, powered-off phone can still distract the most dependent users.

by Robinson Meyer

"I sit down at the table, move my napkin to my lap, and put my phone on the table face-down. I am at a restaurant, I am relaxed, and I am about to start lying to myself. I’m not going to check my phone, I tell myself. (My companion’s phone has appeared face-down on the table, too.) I’m just going to have this right here in case something comes up.

Of course, something will not come up. But over the course of the next 90 minutes I will check my phone for texts, likes, and New York Times push alerts at every pang of boredom, anxiety, relaxation, satiety, frustration, or weariness. I will check it in the bathroom and when I return from the bathroom. I don’t really enjoy this, but it is very interesting, even if some indignant and submerged part of my psyche moans that I am making myself dumber every time I look at it. As, in fact, I am."

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#Smartphones #Disconnect #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent

PocketYour Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting ThereA silent, powered-off phone can still distract the most dependent users.
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Watching the horrors unfold

I deleted my Apple News app today. In this constant state of fear and clickbait I was filling myself with dread (and giving myself a lot of homework, verifying sources and double checking with other sites).

Today, the news media no longer has direct access to me, through my phone. If anything catastrophic happens, I will find out about it the same way humans always have - through other people.

The mainstream media aided and abetted unfettered lies of too many people for too long, for views and clicks. It was just capitalism being capitalism, but this time the price is democracy and I refuse to be an active party to an institution which no longer has any integrity.

The pivot at the end, to try and save face, was far too little, far too late. The media doesn’t get to make money hand over fist platforming a serial rapist who makes headlines for a decade and then at the buzzer say “lol oops he’s fascist [now] and bad for our country” the week of the election. They made this bed and now we all have to lie in it.

When all of your “news” is distilled through the uber-rich newspapers and television networks, sane-washed to avoid defamation, libel, and slander - is it actually news? Or is it just a watered-down live blog designed to keep people complacent and docile? Afraid for their lives always, for fear of stirring the pot, and losing everything. Just keep your head down and things will work out.

No longer.

Please don’t mistake my message. I know the idea of “fake news” as a propaganda term has gotten us to where we are today, and we are about to see if the promises to dismantle democracy and take America back a hundred years are fact or fiction. I am saying consume factual, independent media curated by people you trust. Use critical thinking. And always trust but verify.

Next, read books. Fiction, non-fiction – doesn’t matter. Widen your world views and expand your horizons. Visit fictitious utopias in your mind’s eye and watch oppressive post-apocalyptic dystopias crumble by the hands the resistance, written by independent creators who participate in a craft because it is a passion, not because it made them a billion dollars.

Movies and TV I will leave to you, but I would say ditch all the paid shit and give your library a visit. With a free library card, not only can you read for free to your heart’s content, but you can access independent streaming services for free, too, like Kanopy and Hoopla. They won’t have Despicable Me 8, but you may just learn something or support independent artists.

Most importantly, disconnect in all the ways you need to maintain your sanity. The world’s problems were not created overnight nor will they be solved in that same time. The road is arduous, but worthwhile. When we all recuperate we will become more powerful, collectively, because you cannot control a free mind.

I am signing off for a while, to protect my inner peace. Disappearing into a book or an old puzzle, maybe an backlogged video game. The horrors persist, but so do we. I don’t know who, if anyone, will see this, but if it helps at least one soul it will have been worth it. Take care of yourselves and your neighbors. We’re all we’ve got.

#resist #persist #riseup #live #fightback #reading #news #puzzle #hobby #media #resistance #disconnect #offline #mentalhealth #takingabreak #TootPause

p.s. I leave you with this very important, if long overdue clip from the complex mind that was Prince. take from it what you will.

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Tero Karppi

The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection - an edited collection questioning the hypes of our digital era is out! And it is open access!

I was happy to contribute an afterword for this volume. nordicom.gu.se/en/publications #disconnect

www.nordicom.gu.seThe Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection | NordicomThe book will be available for sale in printed format from the end of September.  
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