Cogent Communications cut their Internet backbone to Russia so they couldn't launch cyberattacks against the West to retaliate over their massive Ukraine Invasion sanctions ✂️ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Cogent’s networks carry about one-quarter of the world’s Internet traffic.
Cogent has several dozen customers in Russia, with many of them, such as state-owned telecommunications giant Rostelecom, being close to the government.
Russia, like most nations, is connected to the world by several backbone providers, but Cogent is among its largest. The company began terminating its Russian companies at noon Friday but was doing so gradually.
Some customers asked for a delay of up to several days
Does Peter Thiel pay people to cover up his past? His online search results are pretty sketchy
I was trying to remember title of @chafkin's insightful biography of Thiel & the political rise of Silicon Valley
searching for "Thiel" or "Thiel biography" did not give good results
"thiel biography" 3rd result in DuckDuckGo and top result in Google is "Peter Thiel: A Biography"
which is a 1-star 28-pg "book" by some no-name author with terrible reviews:
"This is not a book. It is barely a print out of Peter Thiel's Wikipedia entry. Don't go near it."
Google did show Chafkin's "The Contrarian" prominently in the sidebar, and Chafkin's Time Magazine interview was near the top of search results for both search websites
but that's not nearly good enough - at the least, where was the link to buy The Contrarian at Amazon?
European oil majors still not going Green fast enough to fight Climate Change effectively and meet the 2030 and 2050 climate goals, but at least they're trying...
France's Total is now TotalEnergies, and in 2021 planned to invest 20% in renewable energy france24.com/en/france/2021…
Denmark's Dong (Danish Oil and Natural Gas) 😏 was rebranded as Orsted in 2017
Norway's Statoil changed its name to Equinor in 2018
these European Energy majors seem to be stepping up on Renewables, now where are the US's Exxon, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips?
@USTreasury Sanctions Russians Bankrolling Putin and Russia-Backed Influence Actors
Blocked are 3 Russian elites, 2 spouses, 3 adult children, 6 companies, 1 of Russia’s largest privately-owned aircraft, and 1 of world’s largest superyachts home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
These actions were taken in close coordination with the European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, the ROK, and Australia, demonstrating global support for Ukraine and the commitment to hold Russia’s authoritarian leadership responsible for their actions.
As a part of transatlantic effort to further deny Russian elites the benefits of their kleptocracy & ensure effective implementation of sanctions, Treasury will share financial Intel & other evidence where appropriate w/DOJ to support criminal prosecutions & asset seizures
"Xi Jinping might have noticed that a mortal threat to a vibrant democracy changes everything. Lazy, greedy, ethically casual societies of the “West” may react with surprising unity and determination." chinafile.com/conversation/c…
"Xi may already be much less enthusiastic about being shoulder to shoulder with an international cartoon villain with a hopeless pricked-balloon economy, a heavy-footed ground force, and a talent for uniting his opponents."
Buyer's remorse so soon?
"Taiwan is fastest rising economy in East Asia, w/per capita GDP expected to surpass Japan & South Korea; all of them leave the PRC living standard in the dust"
Democratic economies are the most vibrant economies & prove the lie about Chinese societies needing rule by Iron Fist
BBC launches shortwave radio frequencies, popular in wartime, to bring information to Ukraine and Russia ❤️🇺🇦
People in Kyiv and parts of Russia will be able to clearly hear BBC World Service news in English for four hours a day — from 4 to 6 p.m. British time on 15735 kHz and from 10 p.m. to midnight on 5875 kHz — a statement from the BBC said Wednesday.
Shortwave radio was invented in the early 1920s and became especially popular in Europe during times of conflict because it can reach remote areas and travel vast distances without the need for satellites or cables, which can be compromised in wartime.