海角大神

Welcome to your Daily. Today we look at Tehran鈥檚 perspective on the current standoff, cracks in Turkey鈥檚 power structure, a response to media suppression in Eastern Europe, personal decisions about the impact of air travel, and how an old mill town sees its future in 鈥β�metalsmithing.

First, a check on the seasonal reach to unplug.

Today begins the first full week of Northern Hemisphere summer, the start of the languid days of disconnect for worker bees who are .

Each year the tension between tech reliance and resistance builds. Never mind work email. It鈥檚 to dodge the unrelenting time suck of tech, often cloaked as mere efficiency.听The purveyors are aggressive: Facebook wants to be . Uber wants to own transportation . Google seems inclined to , Instagram to .听

But, as in physics, reaction mirrors action. Simplicity movements aren鈥檛 new. But today come stories of deep analog pushbacks. , electricity, and wherever it can, money. Others create on remote islands.

One island-life story shows a microculture really leaning in: A few hundred people off the coast of Norway 鈥� a place sunlit around the clock in summer owing to latitude 鈥� only half-jokingly take aim at an even more fundamental construct: They鈥檙e angling for a time-free zone.

Off the grid? Try off the clock. 鈥淎ll over the world, people are characterized by stress and depression,鈥� . 鈥淚n many cases this can be linked to the feeling of being trapped by the clock.鈥�

Make sure to put in for some vacation this summer.