Following a pattern of #undersea #cable damage across European waters in the last year, with the most recent disruptions happening just weeks ago, top NATO officials have begun envisioning a capability that would allow the alliance to have permanent eyes above and under the waterline.
#military #warfare #cybersecurity #Infrastructur #news #Europe
https://the.ink/p/want-to-save-democracy-watch-less
Want to save democracy? Watch less #cable $news; attend more #town meetings
A conversation with Harvard #political scientist Daniel Ziblatt about how #democracies die — and how a pro-democracy movement could keep ours alive
#ANANDGIRIDHARADAS
JAN 11, 2024
..."you have to get involved with real #organizations, where people are coming together face to face. This can mean #volunteering at your local precinct office of the Democratic Party. It turns out it's a really low bar to get involved. You could very quickly become the leader of the #local precinct office. And then you notice that nobody can meet regularly because they all have kids. So you work to set up a thing where people are sharing childcare duties, and next everyone is thinking about who should be the candidate in the next election.
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they're voting on whether or not to introduce ranked order voting. And some of the defenders of the status quo said, "Well, I understand the national symbolism of this, but what's wrong in Lexington that really needs this reform?" Which I thought was a very good question to ask. And so people tried to make the case, "Well, if you look at who's running for office, it's all the same people over and over. Maybe if we did this, we'd have different people." So, people are engaged at the local level. And they're downloading white papers from Protect Democracy, and understanding the importance of these institutional reforms, and they can then become engaged on that level too.
That's my best answer: being engaged through real organizations, whether in local electoral politics, unions, church and religious institutions, that are addressing the real concerns of people's everyday lives.
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There are overwhelming majorities of Americans who do value these institutions and value liberal principles, and value principles of racial equality. I was looking at some survey data on whether or not you think there should be rules, restrictions on where people can live on the basis of race. In the mid-1970s, very high percentages of Americans agreed that there should be. Today, overwhelming percentages of Americans think the opposite, conservative and liberal alike."...
An interesting take, for sure.
if all #streaming services in the United States are now charging you to watch ads, then they aren't streaming services. they are #cable #TV channels.
#FCC needs to do their job and regulate these fake #internet companies as they are supposed to regulate cable & legacy #broadcast tv stations.
The Palestinian Ministry of Communications announced that their last connection to the internet via land has been attacked and they are currently offline.
source: https://www.hackread.com/submarine-cables-cybersecurity-threats/
Meanwhile, #Russia poses a physical security threat to submarine cables, particularly those in the North Sea region. Severing a cable can cause significant disruptions, and damage inflicted in deep water would be even more impactful due to longer repair times. State-sponsored threat actors possess the necessary resources to identify and target cables in deep water.
#thread #security #danger #internet #communication #privacy #news #cybersecurity #cable #submarine #china
Glad I ordered a few extras.
It's the best item I've ever used for my #rechargeable devices.
I have now only one type of #cable at home and all my USB devices have one of these to charge easily and quickly without any fear of getting the #USB port damaged.
(I have some for USB-C and some for micro USB but the cable is the same)
But they don't mention price....hmmmm
https://www.engadget.com/comcast-xfinity-plan-speed-increase-190458946.html
Xiao et al. sent laser pulses through a commercially operated fiber-optic cable linking Valencia, Spain, to Palma on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. The researchers then measured the small amount of light that bounced back through the cable, a technique called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS). When seismic vibrations disturbed the cable, they changed how the light returned to the source and let the researchers identify the origins of microseisms.
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/internet-cable-reveals-the-source-of-underwater-vibrations
