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This may be the culture, but one can largely choose to not participate in it. E.g. not having social media accounts and curating your news sources with a focus
by abound 2y ago
This may be the culture, but one can largely choose to not participate in it. E.g. not having social media accounts and curating your news sources with a focus on unsensational, fact-based reporting.
- billwear 2y agoyes.
- rfonseca 2y ago"curating your news sources with a focus on unsensational, fact-based reporting" -> curious how you do this!
- dleink 2y agoI’m working on this as a personal project so I’m interested in other’s solutions! I’m not working on it toooo hard. This is something I think some AI software tool might swoop in and solve before I can build something I’m happy with.
- abound 2y agoNews Minimalist [1] is one way, where it aggregates stories across outlets and uses LLMs to remove clickbait from titles. It also assigns loose 'scores' to each story to approximate how 'important' it is, which I've found to be directionally useful. Ultimately, it comes down to why one consumes news at all. If it's to have something to discuss around the water cooler or dinner table, that's a very different use case than someone trying to pattern match on world events for trading stocks or selling their wares. [1] https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/
- SoftTalker 2y agoInteresting concept. "Today ChatGPT read 6997 news articles and gave 0 of them a significance score over 6.5."