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This is incredibly relevant to me rn. I recently cut the cord and quit FB. I legitimately do feel much happier. My FB feed was just a stream of things to get pi

This is incredibly relevant to me rn. I recently cut the cord and quit FB. I legitimately do feel much happier. My FB feed was just a stream of things to get pissed about and MSNBC was just filling my head with other people's opinions. Here's my daily routine: skim thehill.com, politico.com, reddit.com/r/news for headlines zerohedge.com when I want to see what's going on in right-wing land newsblok.com if I want to see what the crazies are talking about without giving them clicks thenation.com and theatlantic.com to see what liberals are pissed about today slate.com for mainstream opinion pieces verysmartbrotha.com for a laugh salon.com and rawstory.com for the lulz truthdig.com and counterpunch.org for neoliberal bashing essays cnbc.com to check the markets

nether 10y ago
You quit FB so that you could read a shitload more of news?
- robryan 10y ago
  The news they want to see, not whatever news the Facebook algorithm is feeding them.
white-flame 10y ago
I find realclearpolitics.com to be a broad slice of articles and videos from "both sides", as well as holding actual raw polling data when questionably sounding statistics are being bandied about. It also links to other non-political news in other areas, showing the major splash headlines. Its front page is also very information dense, so it's a lot more efficient than hitting all those sites individually. I believe I've seen content referenced there from most those sites you've listed.
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- vog 10y ago
  > I find realclearpolitics.com to be a broad slice of articles and videos from "both sides" I didn't know that site and just had a look at it. I found that really disappointing! All "news" for today are about Trump and nothing else: Sunday, December 11 - Trump Honeymoon Begins: Confidence in Economy Booming | Cohen & Thomas, NYT - Why "Trump Boom" Is a Real Possibility | Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate - Here's How to Drain the Swamp | Sen. Cruz & Rep. DeSantis, Washington Post - Forget Populism--Trump's Picking Orthodox Republicans | Doyle McManus, LA Times - How the Democratic Party Lost Its Way | Thomas Mills, Politico - Obama Preaches Empathy; Trump Projects It | Kyle Smith, New York Post - Donald Trump and the Art of Getting It Done | Monica Crowley, Washington Times - Why Scientists Are Scared of Trump: A Pocket Guide | Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker So you have a single event, the outcome of the US elections. The dust hasn't settled yet. Nobody knows anything about what the new president will do. He hasn't done anything yet. And of course he didn't, he is still in his first days. So up to now there is absolutely no information, nothing. Yet, lots of articles talking about that. Taking about, essentially, nothing. This is "news" without information. The worst kind of news. "Information" would mean: Choose a different topic where you can actually write something informative about.
  - white-flame 10y ago
    Yeah, it's a generally American politics focused news aggregator (there's also World, Science, Life, etc outside of this Politics section), and at this particular moment Trump's the story from almost everybody who's being aggregated. But those articles importantly are a mix of left & right viewpoints in 1 place. Neither the left (panic & planning, and how the right is wrong) nor the right (touting future Trump accolades, and how the left is wrong) are shutting up about him, because it is a very volatile moment in US politics. However, there's also the attack in Turkey, other post-election matters, Saudi Arabia, common core education, campus echo chambers, and other non-Trump topics represented in the front page list. The overall variety will return back to normal in time.
  - JohnStrange 10y ago
    These articles don't seem to be news at all. I've seen this all the time on social media recently, many people seem to have lost the ability of distinguishing between news stories and opinion pieces/editorials. :(
Noseshine 10y ago
I don't have a TV and quit most news and replaced it with - edx.org - coursera.org (now less that it has changed) There are others like Udacity but I found that I ended up taking almost all courses on only these two sites. Over 70 courses thus far, most of them completely outside my own field (I'm an IT consultant with a CS masters). Currently open courses (all edX): - Soil4Life: Sustainable Soil Management (https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-life-wageningenx-soilx-0 https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-... - I want to learn something substantial about agriculture, not a lot of courses compared to other subjects but this seems like a good start) - MITs truly excellent Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life (again, I had to stop in the middle last time I took it): https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-mitx-7-00x-4 https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-... - First Nights: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots (https://www.edx.org/course/first-nights-igor-stravinskys-rite-harvardx-mus24-5x https://www.edx.org/course/first-nights-igor-stravinskys-rit...) Examples from the past: Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval Europe, Pet Birds 101: Introduction to Avian Care and Medicine for the Pet Bird Enthusiast, Medical Neuroscience (huge course - >30 hours lecture videos, Coursera), A Global History of Architecture, Cellular mechanisms of brain function, Human Anatomy, Introduction to Physiology, Principles of Biochemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Statistics and R for the Life Sciences, Networks, Crowds and Markets, Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, Vocal Recording Technology, Horse Nutrition, and many more. I think this is closer to what the article advocates. You just replaced relatively shallow news sources for others. Try taking some courses. I have the advantage to work from home, I know if I worked 9-5 in an office I would be way too exhausted to do much of the above. But you can still find pleasurable easy courses like the History of Architecture or the entire First Nights series about five pieces of classical music which don't take much mental effort. Each time I read news now it feels like eating a McDonalds meal when you are actually used to real food. It keeps your mind occupied but it feels like there are no "nutrients" (in the news), nothing of substance.
- octygen 10y ago
  I honestly find coursera and edx are by far the best use of my time too. Structured learning with a beginning, an end and a few individuals (professors) that specialize in a field. I'm doing things that ARE actually in my field (similar to yours) but set me apart completely at work where most people don't take the time to do any sort of learning and just focus on the daily grind. As a side note, the other more fun yet still kinda learning use of my time has been to watch a few older Japanese shows - not the crazy all-over-the-place stuff they have today. For example, Musashi (2003). It's fun to watch and at the end of every episode they talk about a site in Japan where Musashi traveled in real life. I find this type of show enriching. Another good one is a show called Change (from 2008) which is again Japanese about a young man randomly becoming prime minister of Japan. The show again discusses the intricacies of Japanese politics in a funny way but with a big dose of the real issues in Japan (e.g., the small number of young people vs the old).

nether 10y ago

You quit FB so that you could read a shitload more of news?

robryan 10y ago
The news they want to see, not whatever news the Facebook algorithm is feeding them.

white-flame 10y ago

I find realclearpolitics.com to be a broad slice of articles and videos from "both sides", as well as holding actual raw polling data when questionably sounding statistics are being bandied about. It also links to other non-political news in other areas, showing the major splash headlines. Its front page is also very information dense, so it's a lot more efficient than hitting all those sites individually. I believe I've seen content referenced there from most those sites you've listed.

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vog 10y ago
> I find realclearpolitics.com to be a broad slice of articles and videos from "both sides" I didn't know that site and just had a look at it. I found that really disappointing! All "news" for today are about Trump and nothing else: Sunday, December 11 - Trump Honeymoon Begins: Confidence in Economy Booming | Cohen & Thomas, NYT - Why "Trump Boom" Is a Real Possibility | Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate - Here's How to Drain the Swamp | Sen. Cruz & Rep. DeSantis, Washington Post - Forget Populism--Trump's Picking Orthodox Republicans | Doyle McManus, LA Times - How the Democratic Party Lost Its Way | Thomas Mills, Politico - Obama Preaches Empathy; Trump Projects It | Kyle Smith, New York Post - Donald Trump and the Art of Getting It Done | Monica Crowley, Washington Times - Why Scientists Are Scared of Trump: A Pocket Guide | Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker So you have a single event, the outcome of the US elections. The dust hasn't settled yet. Nobody knows anything about what the new president will do. He hasn't done anything yet. And of course he didn't, he is still in his first days. So up to now there is absolutely no information, nothing. Yet, lots of articles talking about that. Taking about, essentially, nothing. This is "news" without information. The worst kind of news. "Information" would mean: Choose a different topic where you can actually write something informative about.
- white-flame 10y ago
  Yeah, it's a generally American politics focused news aggregator (there's also World, Science, Life, etc outside of this Politics section), and at this particular moment Trump's the story from almost everybody who's being aggregated. But those articles importantly are a mix of left & right viewpoints in 1 place. Neither the left (panic & planning, and how the right is wrong) nor the right (touting future Trump accolades, and how the left is wrong) are shutting up about him, because it is a very volatile moment in US politics. However, there's also the attack in Turkey, other post-election matters, Saudi Arabia, common core education, campus echo chambers, and other non-Trump topics represented in the front page list. The overall variety will return back to normal in time.
- JohnStrange 10y ago
  These articles don't seem to be news at all. I've seen this all the time on social media recently, many people seem to have lost the ability of distinguishing between news stories and opinion pieces/editorials. :(

Noseshine 10y ago

I don't have a TV and quit most news and replaced it with - edx.org - coursera.org (now less that it has changed) There are others like Udacity but I found that I ended up taking almost all courses on only these two sites. Over 70 courses thus far, most of them completely outside my own field (I'm an IT consultant with a CS masters). Currently open courses (all edX): - Soil4Life: Sustainable Soil Management (https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-life-wageningenx-soilx-0 https://www.edx.org/course/sustainable-soil-management-soil-... - I want to learn something substantial about agriculture, not a lot of courses compared to other subjects but this seems like a good start) - MITs truly excellent Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life (again, I had to stop in the middle last time I took it): https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-mitx-7-00x-4 https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-... - First Nights: Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots (https://www.edx.org/course/first-nights-igor-stravinskys-rite-harvardx-mus24-5x https://www.edx.org/course/first-nights-igor-stravinskys-rit...) Examples from the past: Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval Europe, Pet Birds 101: Introduction to Avian Care and Medicine for the Pet Bird Enthusiast, Medical Neuroscience (huge course - >30 hours lecture videos, Coursera), A Global History of Architecture, Cellular mechanisms of brain function, Human Anatomy, Introduction to Physiology, Principles of Biochemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Statistics and R for the Life Sciences, Networks, Crowds and Markets, Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, Vocal Recording Technology, Horse Nutrition, and many more. I think this is closer to what the article advocates. You just replaced relatively shallow news sources for others. Try taking some courses. I have the advantage to work from home, I know if I worked 9-5 in an office I would be way too exhausted to do much of the above. But you can still find pleasurable easy courses like the History of Architecture or the entire First Nights series about five pieces of classical music which don't take much mental effort. Each time I read news now it feels like eating a McDonalds meal when you are actually used to real food. It keeps your mind occupied but it feels like there are no "nutrients" (in the news), nothing of substance.

octygen 10y ago
I honestly find coursera and edx are by far the best use of my time too. Structured learning with a beginning, an end and a few individuals (professors) that specialize in a field. I'm doing things that ARE actually in my field (similar to yours) but set me apart completely at work where most people don't take the time to do any sort of learning and just focus on the daily grind. As a side note, the other more fun yet still kinda learning use of my time has been to watch a few older Japanese shows - not the crazy all-over-the-place stuff they have today. For example, Musashi (2003). It's fun to watch and at the end of every episode they talk about a site in Japan where Musashi traveled in real life. I find this type of show enriching. Another good one is a show called Change (from 2008) which is again Japanese about a young man randomly becoming prime minister of Japan. The show again discusses the intricacies of Japanese politics in a funny way but with a big dose of the real issues in Japan (e.g., the small number of young people vs the old).