Like a lot of people, I got myself quite wound up over the last few years following politics way more than I ever cared to in the past. It was a big enough problem that I tried to quit all my normal sources many times, but kept failing and it kept getting worse.
A few months ago I moved onto trying to find sources that felt less intense, less angry, and far less frequent than the fire hose sources I was stuck on, so I could get my fix without getting completely consumed by it. I had a hard time finding anything that stopped the urge to go back to my old sources until someone on HN mentioned Breaking Points. I've been subscribed for about a month now and I haven't had the urge to go back to the old places and, if I do peek back there, the click bait titles don't get me fired up. I even clearly see that the arguments people often make against those places are pretty fair and don't automatically mean the critic is "a racist" (I never really assumed that, but that's the meme and I'm guilty of making less extreme assumptions).
:-) I personally have nothing against cryptobros, but this reminds me of this tweet [1] by creator of Signal:
> I rarely have much use for ML, but I made a chrome extension that auto-blocks anyone with laser eyes in their Twitter avatar and I gotta say that so far it really seems to improve the experience!
One could certainly argue that for the most part, news shouldn't be our source of information (especially the semi-propaganda type rampant on Twitter). Aaron Swartz [1] and Rolf Dobelli [2] argue for this reasonably.
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 24.0 ms ] threadA few months ago I moved onto trying to find sources that felt less intense, less angry, and far less frequent than the fire hose sources I was stuck on, so I could get my fix without getting completely consumed by it. I had a hard time finding anything that stopped the urge to go back to my old sources until someone on HN mentioned Breaking Points. I've been subscribed for about a month now and I haven't had the urge to go back to the old places and, if I do peek back there, the click bait titles don't get me fired up. I even clearly see that the arguments people often make against those places are pretty fair and don't automatically mean the critic is "a racist" (I never really assumed that, but that's the meme and I'm guilty of making less extreme assumptions).
> I rarely have much use for ML, but I made a chrome extension that auto-blocks anyone with laser eyes in their Twitter avatar and I gotta say that so far it really seems to improve the experience!
[1]: https://nitter.net/moxie/status/1466454602337771521
Sticking your head in the sand and ignoring all sources of good and bad information is just a recipe for leaving you ignorant
[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
[2: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf