How do you process the news?
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How do you process the news?
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#2One, I'd like to note that Alex has an exceptional component of his site dedicated to older-edition-style tabletop roleplaying and it's well worth checking out if you're interested.
Two, given a choice between the front page of the New York Times and a PDF or expert blog post - I typically select the latter - or read about my town and local jurisdiction. I keep Bloomberg and the AP around for things that are events I may need to know about quickly.
Of course this gets into the problem of filtering and knowledge gaps, I might be reading something really interesting about natural gas but I have no idea if the person is a crank or not because of my lack of domain knowledge - so I've got to cautiously work the bubble perimeter every time.
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#4One, I'd like to note that Alex has an exceptional component of his site dedicated to older-edition-style tabletop roleplaying and it's well worth checking out if you're interested. Two, given a choice between the front page of the New York Times and a PDF or expert blog post - I typically select the latter - or read about my town and local jurisdiction. I keep Bloomberg and the AP around for things that are events I…
I strive to only read news that I pay for and I think that info gaps are a risk worth taking to maintain my mental health.
I only subscribe to weeklies. I no longer see much value in daily news.
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#5NewsNotFound was posted here https://github.com/joshwallerr/newsnotfound
Quite cool, requires openai credits, it gathers stories from multiple sites and combines them into one story with images
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#6I decided to go "founder mode" on my news-consuming experience. The "founder" here being Tim-Berners Lee, whose vision was for an internet of dumb pipes where the view layer was controlled by the end-user.
News sites have trashed their user experience in search of ad revenue and clicks. But many have RSS feeds, so I created a PHP web page running on localhost that pulls in RSS feeds from news websites.
I have only got it to list the stories with hyperlinks so far, not the full content. I then disable images on the sites I'm pulling feeds from with UBO, so when I click on something on my PHP page, it remains a text-only experience.
I've realized that images on most news stories are utterly useless. They are usually stock images, and not original up to date pictures taken for the story. And considering that newspapers for the past decade have chosen to splash one guy's scowling face in the headlines day after day, I've decided I don't need that. Text-only for me.
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#7I struggled my whole life with “high empathy/hypersensitivity“ and what helped to fundamentally shift my experience of life and especially news is body-centered trauma therapy and learning how to establish and keep inner boundaries between me and the world around me (without needing to isolate from it).
To give one possible but specific recommendation if you don’t want to try regular therapy again would be to do a basic multi-weekend training in Focusing, in a group setting.
Personally and collectively, I see it as an exercise in how to process and integrate feelings of grief/loss, anger, overwhelm, helplessness and powerlessness, amongst others, and still live a happy life.
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#8The state of news publication in Denmark is sad, which I suspect is a universal state of affairs. Even the tax funded state propaganda outlet "DR" (Danish Radio), has become clickbait garbage. Most publications are heavy left leaning. There are a few that are not, but everything is terrible and I just don't care any more. If I close my eyes and ears, I won't notice the perpetual clown show that is the world in current year.
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#9NewsNotFound was posted here https://github.com/joshwallerr/newsnotfound Quite cool, requires openai credits, it gathers stories from multiple sites and combines them into one story with images
That screenshot is really unconvincing. Four out of five stories are duplicates, and I find the pixel art of drone attacks and spy satellites pretty offputting. Not to mention the whole "completely neutral and unbiased" selling point, which obviously can't be true.
Re: How do you process the news?
#10NewsNotFound was posted here https://github.com/joshwallerr/newsnotfound Quite cool, requires openai credits, it gathers stories from multiple sites and combines them into one story with images
That screenshot is really unconvincing. Four out of five stories are duplicates, and I find the pixel art of drone attacks and spy satellites pretty offputting. Not to mention the whole "completely neutral and unbiased" selling point, which obviously can't be true.
It was alright when the site was up