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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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yakhinvadim ◴[05 Feb 25 17:20 UTC] No.42951867[source]▶
I tried to solve this problem by making AI rank the stories by significance and rewriting the news titles in a boring, factual style.

I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.

It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

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1. mcjiggerlog ◴[06 Feb 25 08:19 UTC] No.42960245[source]▶
I did the same too, but by ingesting Wikipedia's current event portal. The result is a decent balance of world events, but without the sensationalism.

https://detoxed.news/

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/detoxed.news/