Tired of news
Oct. 15th, 2025 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonelyisletNo, not ACTUALLY tied of news
I get emails from Just The News and they do a decent job, if a little excessively American centric (you will get important stories like "50 dead in flood in Thailand" but you'll also get 5 stories of "judge blocks Trump initiative")
But in part it's a twofold thing, I'm tired of waiting for The Next Big Event (read: terrorism), waking up to news of "plane hits one world trade in new york" (I don't think it will happen again and it's silly to prepare for such a story but maybe as someone who grew up on 9/11 it's seared into my consciousness). I don't like "waiting" for the news, and I also don't, I think, always like being connected, plugged in
But the main reason I'm "tired of news" is because of The Algorithms
For those wishing to avoid Facebook and its broken-ass site and dubious mission objectives (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122) then Youtube is marginally better, with the home page being a mix of things you genuinely do want to see mixed in with things you've already seen and things it thinks you'll like
Of course, pure news things are always available, but I go on Youtube a lot, even by force of habit. And it's had terrible recommendations for years
Maybe in the pit of my soul I do prefer, as stated earlier, not always being connected. It's nice to get emails of news and leave it at that
I get emails from Just The News and they do a decent job, if a little excessively American centric (you will get important stories like "50 dead in flood in Thailand" but you'll also get 5 stories of "judge blocks Trump initiative")
But in part it's a twofold thing, I'm tired of waiting for The Next Big Event (read: terrorism), waking up to news of "plane hits one world trade in new york" (I don't think it will happen again and it's silly to prepare for such a story but maybe as someone who grew up on 9/11 it's seared into my consciousness). I don't like "waiting" for the news, and I also don't, I think, always like being connected, plugged in
But the main reason I'm "tired of news" is because of The Algorithms
For those wishing to avoid Facebook and its broken-ass site and dubious mission objectives (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122) then Youtube is marginally better, with the home page being a mix of things you genuinely do want to see mixed in with things you've already seen and things it thinks you'll like
Of course, pure news things are always available, but I go on Youtube a lot, even by force of habit. And it's had terrible recommendations for years
Maybe in the pit of my soul I do prefer, as stated earlier, not always being connected. It's nice to get emails of news and leave it at that
