It's easier than ever to reach for your phone for no reason whatsoever. 

YouTube or tiktok are made to make you feel in touch with global reality, while keeping you entertained. 

While it seems harmless, we don't realize how much time it goes on just staring at your phone. I would challenge you to enable digital well-being tracking app and see how many hours you spend. 

First step is to realize the problem is there. No matter what your daily usage is, ask yourself if the time was well spent.

Be it, 3 or 7 hours on the weekend, that is way more than considerable amount of time that is dedicated to nothing but watching garbage. It's well known to the platforms how they do their job so well that it's considered manipulation of attention. They are designed to pretty much hack your mind to keep you interested and entertained. 

Maybe after seeing how much time you spend on daily basis, you will realize how much potential is wasted. 

When you look up something on YouTube that you're interested in, new tailored suggestion is already loaded for you. God forbid you open shorts or tiktok, and you find yourself on the train with endless tracks. 

Your second step is action. You are in charge of that scrolling. What can you do for yourself, to fill that time? You can try to deassociate yourself from your liked videos and comment contributions, what's the fact that it stay and is always waiting for you at any moment you pick up your phone, calls for deliberate rejection of temptation. 

When you feel like you need another hit, your hand is already in the pocket ready to open that app. 

It takes some adjusting, as soon as you find the substitute, you begin to migrate. 

Your substitutes must be good for you. The best thing to think about straight away - are your plans, and tasks at hand. If it's your free time, make sure to have a project to go to. If it's at work, it's easy - just get to work, because that's what you're there to do. 

Being aware of your pitfalls, gives you the power to influence them.

You will see that with more power you can break any chains you put yourself into. 

Whatever is keeping you entertained on those apps, just realize that they are there just for your consumption. Even reports of global events, are made to be consumed. Often even instilling fear that if you miss out, then you will be in the worse position. And for a common person it's not easy to be distinguish what can be serious, or another black hole of attention. 

Is best to practice to be aware how not to get sucked in, value your attention.

I finished my studies that I wanted to do, which one may imagine helped to develop.

But watching the world change, introduce AI, one begs the question - what are the consequences of keeping kids in the same system that teaches less than basics about life itself, while the world changes so much?

It seems that the biggest mission of educational facilities is to keep everyone organized like sardines, but where is the use when it's so uniform? Every individual is so different, with many talents that are thrown aside to complete not so practical work. 

The facilities are there, but has anyone considered efficiency or interests of the students?

I like to stay in the loop, and watch out for recent or new developments, but have come to realise that many events are politicized or "new policies" that are being enforced.

It's not hard to imagine various ideas and pretty much cults forming with their own collective opinions or conspiracies.

My guess is that economic conspiracies are always there with the slightest hickup in trading. UFO guys reimerge every now and then with "new evidence". Looking at those things, it's easy to try to understand, but they often leave out any undeniable proof. It's a carefully constructed pyramid of logic that seems to lead to the conclusion, but never getting there.

Besides far fetched conspiracies, what are some of the less known, and well arguable things we don't know?

A powerlifter (Anatoly) pretends to be clueless about lifting, always amusing to watch his videos

The list for a year's of games is crazy - Wikipedia 2026 Game Release Dates

The list includes all the platforms - portable, mobile, console, PC.

I would be happy with a single good game, but it's hard to anticipate something good when all the focus is on realism and not a novel way of gameplay.

Any gamers here?

I've tried varius platforms that are popular - twitter, Reddit, facebook.

But they also attract individuals that will say or do anything to get positive reaction or to spew raw hate. 

What platforms/sites that can be coonsidered more civilized or less of a trainwreck that can be enjoyable to read?

You can find a full list of movies that will be releasing in 2026 on FirstShowing.net, but here are the "big" ones for June-July:

1. Toy Story 5 (June 19), where Woody and Buzz face competition from new electronic toys. 


2. Supergirl (June 26)


3. Moana (July 10), the live-action adaptation


4. Minions & Monsters (July 1)


5. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (July 17), starring Matt Damon and Tom Holland. 


6. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (July 31)


7. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (November 20)


8. Avengers: Doomsday (December 18)


9. Dune: Part 3 (December 18)

On daily basis we use AI to assist with certain tasks, i.e complete a letter, generate a list, get some ideas.

But internet has been using it for the last 3 years (since 2023) to generate media - images, blog posts, songs.

Organizations and governments are looking for best way to tell the difference between created and generated content.

Even after generated content is reviewed and tailored to it's purpose, it can make a big impact if misidentified.

Previously your attention was consumed by thinking about the fact, but now it's more "how much of it is true" or "is this AI?".

Anything to do with the internet has AI involved in one way or another. By now, most of the internet that has anything longer than few phrases resorts to generating, and correcting content like a professional linguist. 

And it's more difficult to tell what preserves the meaning of information shared, when you can prompt to "sound more casual".

What can we do to have a barrior that defines genuine from slop?

Score 2:2, but Japan is there to not just win games,

Their culture wins hearts. They bring their own rubbish bags and clean not just after themselves, but the opposing team as well.
It's their way of being respectful where clean environment benefits everyone.
They're pretty much "caught" cleaning up, because they're not recording on video their contribution, nor complain about the mess. 

The world cup anthem took off to a song with lyrics, but no beat or inspirational atmosphere.
(To watch it you need to open in YT):



Shakira came in with a new song shortly after:


Although there's a bit of nostalgic 2010 vibes, the song doesn't hit the same, falling a bit flat. To English speaker the title of the song is also not a festive one.

Youtuber IShowSpeed took it upon himself to make something worth celebrating with. The song mentions all qualifying countries which lasts exactly a minute, but it captures more collective energy with less overthought lyrics and overall composition that everyone can enjoy:
 

As for the others - You can listen on Spotify Official World Cup 2026 album:

1. "Goals" – LISA, Anitta, and Rema (3:00)
   
2. "Game Time" – Future and Tyla (3:27)
   
3. "Illuminate" – Jessie Reyez and Elyanna (3:04)
   
4. "Echo" – Daddy Yankee and Shenseea (2:16)
   
5. "Por Ella" – Belinda and Los Ángeles Azules (3:02)
   
6. "Three Nations" – 21 Savage, Natanael Cano, and French Montana (3:30)
   
7. "No Place Like Home" – Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado, and Davido (2:35)
   
8. "In the Stars" (Remix) – The Rolling Stones (4:59)
   
9. "Show Me" – Ayra Starr and Latto (3:28)
   
10. "Mi Mexico Lindo" – Alejandro Fernández (2:34)
    
11. "Blessings" – Stormzy, Fridayy, and Angel (3:36)
    
12. "Energy" – Ava Max and Bia (3:01)
    
13. "Lighter" – Jelly Roll and Carín León (3:00)
    
14. "Siir Siir" – Nora Fatehi, Vegedream, and Sanjoy (3:06)
    
15. "Partidazo" – Danny Ocean (2:23)
    
16. "World Cup (Champions)" – IShowSpeed (4:16)
    
17. "Love Always Wins" – Zema featuring Shaggy and Cimafunk (3:08)
    
18. "Dai Dai" – Shakira and Burna Boy (3:43) [Official Song]