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Stop Reading News (2013)
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Re: Stop Reading News (2013)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what is honestly better than contextualizing today's news with (history * yesterday's news)? A tough question. The issue, I think, is that we cannot reliably reflect/contextualize about today's news/events until it becomes history, i.e. reliability (for a lack of a better term) comes only with distance to past. But now we are already on a dangerous ground because, you know, '84.
I'm lost; how does big brother play in? > " think, is that we cannot reliably reflect/contextualize about today's news/events until it becomes history, i.e. reliability" This is exactly my point so far:: the best approximation I have for contextualizing today's news is by examining the diff of today's history and yesterday's news. I'm not confident in my grammar; let me make a graphic: ...............................…
Here’s a recent example of extraterritorial gag orders targeting news outlets, which would necessarily impinge our ability to read between the lies/lines:
https://www.404media.co/reuters-takes-down-blockbuster-hacke...
I’m “posting too fast” or I’d submit it to HN myself - feel free to do so, dear reader, as it belongs on HN.
> “Reuters has temporarily removed the article ‘How an Indian startup hacked the world’ to comply with a preliminary court order issued on Dec. 4, 2023, in a district court in New Delhi, India. Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision,” the editor’s note reads. An archive of the story, hosted on the Wayback Machine, is available here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164611/https://www.reute...
Re: Stop Reading News (2013)
#23If you don't mind being unable to engage with your peers on anything except historical matters. If you don't e.g. mind being unaware of the local situation, which goes to preparedness. -By all means don't read news outside of tornado season, and don't mind being caught up in current affairs with no situational awareness. If you don't mind abrogating decision making to others, where you have some locus of control. If…
> If you don't mind being unable to engage with your peers on anything except historical matters.
The rest of your post is in a similar finger-pointing parent-telling-their-child-how-the-world-works mode, but the first line is already wrong. The world is a lot bigger then just historical facts and what CNN is currently telling you. I can easily interact with my "peers" without talking about history or COVID, thank you. I am pretty saddened that you believe otherwise.
Re: Stop Reading News (2013)
#24closes tab
Re: Stop Reading News (2013)
#25If you don't mind being unable to engage with your peers on anything except historical matters. If you don't e.g. mind being unaware of the local situation, which goes to preparedness. -By all means don't read news outside of tornado season, and don't mind being caught up in current affairs with no situational awareness. If you don't mind abrogating decision making to others, where you have some locus of control. If…
That's a slippery slope argument like no other.
("Reduce news consumption, turn into unsocialized disaster victim under the control of others.")
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#26If you don't mind being unable to engage with your peers on anything except historical matters. If you don't e.g. mind being unaware of the local situation, which goes to preparedness. -By all means don't read news outside of tornado season, and don't mind being caught up in current affairs with no situational awareness. If you don't mind abrogating decision making to others, where you have some locus of control. If…
You can read the info just b4 voting instead of submerging in all the madness all year.
It's also funny how you've written 'unable to engage with peers on anything except history'. Like, do you speak with your peers only abt news and history? When we gather with friends we discuss many personal things too, and some news too, but not bc we follow them, but bc news were so big that these got to us through another channels indirectly.
Being aware with local situation is strange too. Except from some big things that directly impact me, why I should be aware about the things in the city? Most of the time it's just irrelevant except some strikes of the public service workers or some festivals?
There are ways to read news by using an rss+ some llm combo to filter out irrelevant things but it's too cumbersome
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#27As with most things, "don't do X" is catchier than "do X better". Ways I like are (1) get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible. You can even start from the Wikipedia front page. (2) Read old school blogs with deep information on narrow topics (3) read in another language you're trying to learn.
> get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible This is the way. I treat news headlines as a list of recommendations for which Wikipedia articles to read today. I have even built my own archive of Wikipedia's "Current Events" pages[1] to make this process as seamless as possible, and skip all the non-news garbage that news websites tend to be infested with. [1] https://pastevents.org/
That's awesome!
I'll be consuming this from now on, combined with newsminimalist.com . Should cover 99% of what I want to know.
Can you add RSS feed to pastevents.org? That would be even better!
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#28Here is my favorite quote of all time and not just because I agree wholeheartedly. Try to guess who the quote is from and fron when. > Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the…
That text (I have no idea who it comes from) could have been written by a conspiracy theorist. "Nobody knows anything, it's all a bunch of lies" sounds chic in a rebellious kind of way, until you consider where that belief ultimately leads.
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#29As with most things, "don't do X" is catchier than "do X better". Ways I like are (1) get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible. You can even start from the Wikipedia front page. (2) Read old school blogs with deep information on narrow topics (3) read in another language you're trying to learn.
(4) read from wildy different sources. During wars and elections, many news outlets are going to pick a side. So very few can be trusted as a sole source. You might get the facts, but which facts, and how are they worded.
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#30I'd maybe agree with the news if we didn't live in a market economy. If you are investing anything in the stock market, you must know what's going on, and business news is linked to politics. Anyone who uses money should know what's going on at least in their own country to make wise decisions with their money.
Another example would be not going out if there is a riot or hurricane outside of my house. News can also bring safety.
I can agree with not reading every single piece of news and becoming paranoid/too unnecessarily informed about every possible thing out there.