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I post this b/c it’s reminiscent of Bruce Schneier’s take on the news: ”I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news i
by SkyMarshal 3y ago
I post this b/c it’s reminiscent of Bruce Schneier’s take on the news: ”I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens. It's when something is so common that its no longer news - car crashes, domestic violence - that we should worry.”
- concinds 3y agoWaPo talks about backlash against constant negativity, but I avoid news for another reason: for any field I care about, I hear news weeks/months before it reaches mainstream press, and it's unpleasant and cringeworthy to read their oversimplified, dramatized retelling. For any field I don't care about, I can't evaluate their accuracy and don't trust them. As a rule, the bigger the target audience, the less it's worth, because the masses aren't discerning.
- SkyMarshal 3y agoGood point. When you see how mainstream news mangles reporting on a subject you know, you have to extrapolate that they do the same for all the other subjects you don’t know.
- concinds 3y agoAdding: For example of sheer propaganda, framing Privacy Pass (and by extension, Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal) as a "win", with zero discussion of downsides, see WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captchas-hate-privacy-pass/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captcha...