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Press “1” For Cancer

08 Thursday Jul 2021

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cancer, death, phones, technology

Just how “smart” are those phones again?

Researchers took a comprehensive look at statistical findings from 46 different studies around the globe and found that the use of a cell phone for more than 1,000 hours, or about 17 minutes a day over a ten year period, increased the risk of tumors by 60 percent.

Averaging about one-tenth of the study average use time, I’m in no way worried. Soon, in a couple of years, I plan to cut phone time to zero minutes per day, year, and life. Is this price worth paying, for any of you, for babbling to some idiot about nothing? The whole post-modern world is beginning to resemble a death cult. Dial it back.

Secular Teeth-Grinding Madness

14 Sunday Mar 2021

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electronics, Israel, phones, screens, society

Add this to the long list of SCREENZ-related disorders: sleepless nights and worn teeth.

The participants were asked about feelings of stress and tension throughout the day, a tendency to wake up at night, a need to be available to the cell phone, teeth-grinding and jaw pain.

Studies found that 54% of secular smartphone users occasionally wake up in the middle of the night, compared with 20% from the ultra-Orthodox population.

In addition, half of the secular respondents (50%) feel a moderate to high level of stress due to the cell phone, compared to only 22% among the ultra-Orthodox.

And these are likely all adults. The devices produce the same maladies in youth along with the altered brain chemistry and structure. This is all what happens when the mind is permanently stuck in overdrive. Maybe take a break or simplify things??

The War on Brains

21 Friday Feb 2020

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brains, diet, health, medicine, phones

This has been out for a while, maybe it’s the grey matter loss that prevented the press from realizing that smartphones rewire brains. Just like drug addiction.

Smartphone addiction physically changes the shape and size of the human brain in a similar way to the organ of a drug addict, a study has found.

Images taken by an MRI scanner revealed the brains of people with SPA (smartphone addiction) have lower grey matter volume in some key parts of the brain.

The images also revealed decreased activity in the brains of smartphone addicts compared to non-addicts.

Similar patterns and trends of dwindling grey matter have also been recorded in the mind of drug addicts.

Our diets too.

“Phoney Packs” in Phony Schools

22 Wednesday Jan 2020

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addiction, Catcher in the Rye, education, phones, schools

READ THIS about our government schools.

Before class each day, a high-school teacher in Indianapolis grabs a clear plastic bag and fastens it to her waist with a ribbon. The homemade pouch is a repository for phones that are either confiscated or handed over voluntarily by students who don’t want to be tempted to tap or swipe during class.

She calls it the “phoney pack,” and the magic of the makeshift vault isn’t that it keeps devices out of reach. It’s that it lowers students’ anxiety by keeping their phones in view.

Smartphones have long been a scourge for teachers and administrators, who have employed a range of strict measures to keep them out of the classroom. But it turns out that getting rid of phones introduced another distraction: withdrawal pangs.

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Magic vaults and Harry Potter. Holy sh- Okay, to be fair, this isn’t just a public school problem. What we see here – and the problem is real – is the intersection of the death of education and the extremely addictive nature of the phones. Two-thirds of humans are genetically predisposed to mind control and brainwashing and that is exactly what the phones were made to do. The communicating thing is secondary if that (spying might be second). (Thanks to my Tom I. CIA research for that depressing stat!)

I have already started a good draft (possibly, probably for TPC) about the schools and the decline in teaching methods. It’s based on Gregory’s Seven Laws of Teaching and the departure therefrom. Here’s a pertinent preview:

Law Two. Keep the class centered on the lesson. Do not proceed without the full attention of the students. This is today, completely lost after maybe the fifth grade. So many years of command and control have turned off the child’s mind at the worst time – when hormones commence natural interference. Strategically, all is already lost. Tactically, more attention is paid to phones and games and other instruments of immediate satisfaction than to the lecturing or questioning instructor. Repeated Socratic inquiry is met with blank stares and grunts of “Huh? What?”

All teachers, in all kinds of schools, are familiar with the phone plague. In toto, this is the price we pay for accepting the gradual decline of society – to the pitiful point where 2/3rds would rather drool over a damned little screen (like YOU, right now! …sorry…) that interact with reality. The new reality is partly to blame. Who wouldn’t want to hide in digital la-la land?

But … the WSJ article is about the schools and with my kind of liking to do this, I’m going to pick one of the mentioned schools randomly for a standardized assessment. Hang on. Gotta go back to the article…

It’s South Bronx Early College Academy Charter School!

This is a newer public charter middle school in the great metropolis of NYC. I hate to pick on 6th through 8th graders, but I said random and this is more about the NYC schools than the kids.

Performs better than 17% of other NY State middle schools! And, that’s up from 4.5% a few years earlier. 20.84% average test scores. With 19% proficiency in English. That last stat leads me to think the inmates wouldn’t necessarily appreciate which great American novel gave us so many uses of the word “phony.”

Phony or phoney – not sure which is the worst problem here.

A little known fact: Holden Caufield, not getting the most out of Pencey Prep and having never heard of charter schools, homeschooled his four kids in the 1970s and 80s. True. Check your phoneys to verify.

 

The Quiet Spaces

22 Saturday Jun 2019

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internet, modernity, New York Times, phones

Sometimes the Old Gray Lady has a very interesting idea or story. Here’s one about the fading tranquility of happy, wireless-free life in a land gone media mad.

The off-grid places are disappearing. And that’s as it should be. We must wire up rural America; cell service is now a utility almost as essential as electricity or heat. In April, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it will hold the biggest auction of radio spectrum in this country’s history; the auction, scheduled for late this year, is part of an effort to spread cell coverage to even the most remote towns ahead of the rollout of 5G networks.

Unfortunately, ownership of the telecommunication grids will go to corporate giants rather than to the communities themselves. But even so, small towns are fighting to be wired up. It’s likely that in 10 or so years, the country will be blanketed with signal, from sea to shining sea.

I’m hopeful that when that happens, we might retain just a few quiet places where it’s still possible to disconnect.

Activists have already created “dark sky reserves” to protect wilderness from artificial light. In the future, might we also create “privacy reserves” where we can go to escape the ubiquitous internet?

The irony is that, even as I type this on a laptop, wi-fi connected to Skynet, and with a stupid phone by my side, I consider that maybe all the technology could have been a mistake. To back 20 years. Or, 40. 400?

5,400 Reasons to Rethink the “Smart” Phone

28 Tuesday May 2019

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Keep in mind, this resulted from a scan of a single man’s iPhone:

Monitoring software used by The Washington Post on an ordinary iPhone found that no fewer than 5,400 app trackers were sending data from the phone – in some cases including sensitive data like location and phone number.

It wasn’t too long ago that people paid a little extra for an unlisted phone number. You know, for a little more privacy. What a 180. If this concerns you – and why I bother with stories like this, I really don’t know – then consider a Faraday cage, some other signal blocker, or a dumb phone (no phone if you can manage and don’t mind). Or not.

1984: CCTV is Freedom

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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1984, art, CCTV, computers, crime, England, freedom, John Galt, lies, life, Orwell, phones, politicians, Scotland Yard, surveillance, television, terrorists, truth

Winston Smith and the other denizens of Oceania lived under perpetual surveillance via, among other apparati, their own televisions.  Called “telescreens,” these ingenious, insidious devices constantly delivered government propaganda to the viewer while simultaneously recording what the viewer was up to.  These screens were also located everywhere in public.  Surveillance is freedom and such.  For safety.  For the children.

Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

– 1984.

For a long time this scheme was relegated to the world of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece.  Life often imitates art.  Today telescreens are a reality (at least in theory).

cropped-big-brother-is-watching-1984

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First they put the “v-chip” in your TV.  The chip allowed them to monitor what you were watching.  This made it easier to prevent children from molesting terrorists or something.

Now, many TVs have the a little camera somewhere (so I’m told) which can capture whatever happens in front of the screen.  Some consumers value these devices.  Computers have long come equipped with a camera – for Skyping, etc.  The camera can be turned on remotely by those with the technical know-how.  As computers and TVs are usually connected to the web or a cable system they can transmit the information from the camera along the same line which delivers the service data.  This information can be viewed and recorded.

Phones, tablets, automobiles and even refrigerators have similar capabilities/weaknesses.  In other words, almost every gadget you use can be used to spy on you.

Authorities in England want to take this a step further.  Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, head of London’s Metropolitan Police (“Scotland Yard”), wants closed circuit television cameras in every home and business in his jurisdiction.  Similar tax-paid nuts will echo his sentiment everywhere taxes are collected.

True, such a system might make it easier to identify burglars and other criminals.  It might also make it easier to surveil and spy on those who do not possess a modern TV, computer or smartphone.

Suppose you’re watching some politician reciting the usual lies on the tube one night. Maybe you’re just reading his remarks in the evening paper.  Naturally, you mutter some unpleasant truth about the pol and his mother.  Thirty minutes later a van pulls up to your house.  You are never seen again.  The children are safe…

With all this science fiction coming to life I’m just waiting on a broadcast from John Galt.

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