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Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by 72deluxe »

popalchemist wrote: post #80
defrost wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read their comment and at no point did I get the impression they were burying their head in the sand. They explicitly stated they knew where to read / hear about US politics and did not see the need to have that news domain echoed across every forum.

They may be aware of it, but others who frequent this particular forum may have HN as THEIR source. When someone like the above commenter tries to gatekeep areas where discussion, particularly of things like fascism or other forms of oppression, takes place, it only serves and furthers the goals of the oppressor. There is no domain of life which is not intrinsically political. When we act like there is -- such as whe…

Do you also believe you should discuss every other topic under the sun in the belief that not discussing it is "ceding ground" to a viewpoint or action of others?

It would seem that in your view, we should be discussing all things at all times due to this "oppressor" mindset.

This simply cannot be true.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by ozlikethewizard »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #85
nicbou wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s unfortunate that American news slip into the HN feed, and that Americans get indignant when it gets flagged. I took so much flak for saying that I already know where to hear about US politics, and don’t need it forced into every unrelated forum.

OK well, it's been my experience that even well informed people from around the world do not understand a lot of American news, so cutting down on it probably doesn't help the nuance building. Aside from that there are a lot of Americans on HN, it's reasonable that they expect to be able to discuss what effects them. I haven't really noticed politics of other countries get flagged that much, does it? Other than stuff…

Do you think maybe people from around the world dont necessarily care? The USA is not the center of the universe. If its tech related cool, otherwise let people find it somewhere else if they want it? Personally as a brit it does impact me quite a lot, so I try to keep up to date, but expecting the world to care about US news is kind of egomaniacal.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by gyanchawdhary »

popalchemist wrote: post #72
nicbou wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s unfortunate that American news slip into the HN feed, and that Americans get indignant when it gets flagged. I took so much flak for saying that I already know where to hear about US politics, and don’t need it forced into every unrelated forum.

I sympathize, and the attitude may be annoying, but you've got to realize you can not bury your head in the sand about the global rise in fascism, nor the fact that what happens in America affects the entire world. Imagine if you were to transfer your comment back to WWII era, perhaps you're French and you're saying that you're tired of hearing about this little kerfuffle between Germany and Austria... well, clearly…

“global rise in fascism” implies a baseline ... when was fascism declining exactly? curious what point you're measuring this rise from

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by 72deluxe »

I have set up ntfy on a Pi at home, and use it to send me Android notifications of headlines every morning.

This is by a bash script in a cron job that reads RSS feeds and grabs the headlines and links to articles, so I can get a flurry of tech news and general news headlines without having to go into detail on each topic (which in news terms is typically slanted with some sort of bias).

So I can stay up to date on general happenings, speedily. It is fairly simple to set up - a LLM will write a suitable bash script to parse RSS XML and grab links and headlines in moments.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by gyanchawdhary »

kornaki wrote: post #18

I’ve had similar experiences. These days I only visit Hacker News to read some tech-related stuff. For me, not reading the news to the point where I ask my mom to turn off the TV when I visit is important, because I want to avoid hearing anything about wars, etc. As someone who lives in Poland, I followed so much news about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, and it was really bad for my well-being and my behavior.…

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Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by Olmhinlu »

"I have watched TV twice in my life. I am frankly not terribly interested in TV anyway. Certainly I do not pretend that by simply refusing to keep up with the latest news I am therefore unaffected by what goes on, or free of it all. Certainly events happen and they effect me as they do other people. It is important for me to know about them too: but I refrain from trying to know them in their fresh condition as "news." When they reach me they have become slightly stale. I eat the same tragedies as others, but in the form of tasteless crusts. The news reaches me in the long run through books and magazines, and no longer as a stimulant. Living without news is like living without cigarettes (another peculiarity of the monastic life). The need for this habitual indulgence quickly disappears. So, when you hear news without the "need" to hear it, it treats you differently. And you treat it differently too." - Thomas Merton

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by card_zero »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #83

We don't walk on the street picking random things from the ground and putting them in our mouth, right? So we shouldn't do the same with things we read on the internet and our brain.

I walk around the streets picking up any folding currency I see, so I do the same as I go around the internet picking up any intriguing news stories.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by atomic_reed »

nicbou wrote: post #67
nialv7 wrote: post #47

What a privilege, what a luxury, to be able to turn a blind eye to all the injustice that's currently happening in the world... Sure, do what you want, ignore news if that makes you feel better, but do realise for many, they are not afforded this kind of luxury.

What good is awareness without action? Things happening across the ocean are just out of scope.

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Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by c16 »

EffrafaxOfWug wrote: post #82
c16 wrote: post #12

I've done somewhat similar for the same reasons. I realised that if I exclusively read business news I can avoid a good amount of the fluff and sensationalism. I made a browser extension which pushes the headlines from Bloomberg, Financial times Euronews Business and a few others on to my new tab from their RSS, and it's more than enough to give me a nugget of what's going on in the world without being overloaded. 1…

Sounds very interesting. Have you published this extension (or the source code)? I think I would like to try it out.

Yeah, it's available here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/start-screen-a-busi....

Can't say it's the best extension in the world, but it scratches my own itch and I'm happy with it. Sometimes that's good enough.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by jjav »

berrycan wrote: post #33
voidUpdate wrote: post #2

My entire existence is politically controversial. I pretty much have to at least be aware of recent political developments since they could affect my ability to live as myself

Your entire existence? That sounds kind of hyperbolic, unless you're being targeted by genocide.

> Your entire existence? That sounds kind of hyperbolic

In the USA today (and many other places, but I'm in the US), anyone of any kind of minority is the target of beatings, kidnappings and possibly public executions by the government right now. Not exactly something you can ignore.

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