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After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current
by dejawu 7y ago
After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
It's as close as can possibly be to unbiased, only lists significant events, and it covers world news rather than only focusing on America.
My secondary sources are reddit's /r/OutOfTheLoop, and the chyrons I see whenever I happen to walk by a TV that is playing the news (I learned of the Trump impeachment this way). If something doesn't come up in one of these three sources, it's probably not important enough to be worth the stress/anxiety that following the issue would cause.
- clircle 7y agoDoes anyone know if there is an RSS feed of the Current Events portal?
- cyborgx7 7y agoThere is a recent changes atom feed. Does that do the job? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategorization=1&hideWikibase=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza...
- vinc 7y agoI use this in my RSS reader, from an open source web app I made a few years back: https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events
- Markoff 7y agowhy leaving Twitter? i just joined months ago after ignoring it for years, but yeah most of the content is just time waster besides local police, firemen and transport authority