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There are a lot of suggestions for "long form" and "books" here. Are none of you keeping up with this pandemic and what your country/state/city recommended beh

There are a lot of suggestions for "long form" and "books" here. Are none of you keeping up with this pandemic and what your country/state/city recommended behaviours, laws and bylaws are?

lm28469 6y ago
None of that is posted on websites with "doomscrolling". Most countries publish their laws and recommendations on their own websites. People kept up with laws before twitter and reddit.
- Ensorceled 6y ago
  > None of that is posted on websites with "doomscrolling". Officials of my city, province and country post regular COVID updates on Twitter.
chrisseaton 6y ago
You can switch on the radio once a day for half an hour and get a full update while you make breakfast or something - doesn’t need any more than that really. And no chance of commenting!
- Ensorceled 6y ago
  That makes sense. I'm confused by the people who are saying "I only consume long form" or "I only read books". If they said, "I dropped facebook/twitter and now get my news in short bursts from the radio"; I would have thought them wise.
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koheripbal 6y ago
Their are some deeper news aggregations. I would argue that Twitter is just so absolutely shallow, that it offers a misrepresentation of reality. I read the Wall Street Journal for general/business/politics news. I feel that you really have to pay for news if you want accurate reporting. Goldman Sachs has an ok podcast for market updates. For transient issues, you really need to dig around for where the field experts are posting their analyses... ...but it's also important not to get sucked into every online controversy/story. Achieving your life goals is about FOCUS - and most news are just distractions. For Pandemic stuff, I listen to the 10 min clinical updates on TWIV every few days, and watch the numbers on the New York Times data charts (not the articles). The Sans internet storm for IT security, because I'm in that field. If there's a Iran/NK conflict going on, I'll listen to the Arms Control Wonk podcast analysis. Stuff like that - there are some great experts podcasts out there. If I'm bored, I'll read HackerNews and ZeroHedge. I have found very little value in what my local city/state officials have to say.
wry_discontent 6y ago
This is actually a lot of what I use Twitter for. I follow some local people in the business community and local government officials to get news about what's going on here. I follow a few journalists I trust to get info about the world. And I follow some tech ppl to get cool tech stuff.
- Ensorceled 6y ago
  That's pretty much my twitter feed, plus some authors like Cory Doctorow.
Shoreleave 6y ago
Of course I'm keeping up with it. It takes about 15 minutes a week to do so.

There are a lot of suggestions for "long form" and "books" here. Are none of you keeping up with this pandemic and what your country/state/city recommended behaviours, laws and bylaws are?

lm28469 6y ago

None of that is posted on websites with "doomscrolling". Most countries publish their laws and recommendations on their own websites. People kept up with laws before twitter and reddit.

Ensorceled 6y ago
> None of that is posted on websites with "doomscrolling". Officials of my city, province and country post regular COVID updates on Twitter.

chrisseaton 6y ago

You can switch on the radio once a day for half an hour and get a full update while you make breakfast or something - doesn’t need any more than that really. And no chance of commenting!

Ensorceled 6y ago
That makes sense. I'm confused by the people who are saying "I only consume long form" or "I only read books". If they said, "I dropped facebook/twitter and now get my news in short bursts from the radio"; I would have thought them wise.
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koheripbal 6y ago

Their are some deeper news aggregations. I would argue that Twitter is just so absolutely shallow, that it offers a misrepresentation of reality. I read the Wall Street Journal for general/business/politics news. I feel that you really have to pay for news if you want accurate reporting. Goldman Sachs has an ok podcast for market updates. For transient issues, you really need to dig around for where the field experts are posting their analyses... ...but it's also important not to get sucked into every online controversy/story. Achieving your life goals is about FOCUS - and most news are just distractions. For Pandemic stuff, I listen to the 10 min clinical updates on TWIV every few days, and watch the numbers on the New York Times data charts (not the articles). The Sans internet storm for IT security, because I'm in that field. If there's a Iran/NK conflict going on, I'll listen to the Arms Control Wonk podcast analysis. Stuff like that - there are some great experts podcasts out there. If I'm bored, I'll read HackerNews and ZeroHedge. I have found very little value in what my local city/state officials have to say.

wry_discontent 6y ago

This is actually a lot of what I use Twitter for. I follow some local people in the business community and local government officials to get news about what's going on here. I follow a few journalists I trust to get info about the world. And I follow some tech ppl to get cool tech stuff.

Ensorceled 6y ago
That's pretty much my twitter feed, plus some authors like Cory Doctorow.

Shoreleave 6y ago

Of course I'm keeping up with it. It takes about 15 minutes a week to do so.