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Just seems a little weird to me... Isn't this how most curated sources of information, from newspapers to scientific journals, work?
True, I guess this source is a least transparent about what kind of content they are promoting
No offence to the developer, but isn't this like propaganda? I mean you're not just choosing to only see the best in world, but you're letting someone else define what is the best (or not depressing). Just seems a little weird to me...
That's the case with any newspaper though, isn't it? We should always cross-check and verify, listen to multiple opinions and look at a variety of sources if possible.
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That's the case with any newspaper though, isn't it? We should always cross-check and verify, listen to multiple opinions and look at a variety of sources if possible.
The main purpose of newspapers used to be exactly an opposite. You choose the particular newspaper, by editorial board views closest to yours, and just get an information. You don't have to cross-check everything - that's what you pay for subscribing to newspaper. You outsource the job to the editors.
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It's a perfectly valid rhetorical device. It's called "litotes", and it often conveys a distinct meaning compared to "collapsing" the negatives into a single positive. It's been used liberally by figures such as Homer, Jonathan Swift, Robert Frost, Fredrick Douglass and Shakespeare (as well as pretty much every great writer throughout history). For instance, saying "it's not without issues" usually means something di…
> For instance, saying "it's not without issues" usually means something different from "it has issues". Interesting that you go on to say that "it's not without issues" is milder than "it has issues". To me it's the opposite, like a short form of "Is it without issues? No way!" I guess it depends on context and, particularly, how much sarcasm can be detected in the tone of voice (if said out loud). > In this particu…
"It has issues" is to me a stronger, more general objection to the whole thing.
Doesn't work at all for me on FF63. A quick look at the dev console - I think tracking protection blocks it from loading reddit which it wants for whatever reason. Probably a 'proxy through the back-end' job. edit: I just realised I have reddit's DNS blocked. Oops. FF still brings up tracking protection regardless I think.
All good man - I'll take a look ASAP
I really like this idea, and have long thought of doing something similar, the reason being that most/all existing services that I've come across so far don't do a good job at it. They can actually be even more depressing than normal news (to me). One reason reason is that the "positive news" are often reported against something really depressing, don't point to sustainable solutions and so defeats the purpose. In es…
I have been thinking about this too, and posed an idea some time ago, to the Humane Tech Community [0], named "Turning the Weapon Around" [1]. The gist is to use our existing social media channels, that generally - through their algorithms - reinforce negative sentiments and divisiveness (because that keeps us engaged best, as Max Stossel explains very well in his recent Medium article [2]) to create a network of peo…
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True, I guess this source is a least transparent about what kind of content they are promoting
Less transparent comparing to MSNBC or FoxNews?
It's sort of like "Man who fell off click only broke both legs".
I'm now doing eldercare. Are there any Happy Stuff TV channel(s) that I can program as defaults? Knitting, kittens, panda bears, food, travel, museum tours, antiques, etc. An easy default channel for those people who use TV as company, background noise. (For examples: my mom, her boyfriend, my uncle.) The default channels (Fox, CNN, local news, crime shows) are horrifying. Fear, outrage, gore, drama, political ads. N…