My mum to me, when I haven’t heard about some recent event: “where do you get your news, tetris?”
I don’t. I’m often behind on current events, until it bubbles up and spills over into my periphery, and then I go do some reading usually after the hype bubble has burst. It’s great, but lonely.
I’ve been detoxing from “news media” and this is the dream I strive for. I feel the main pain comes from the news having to be exciting or angering or biased to make a profit. If they didn’t have to play to your emotions I’d bet staying informed would be a lot less stressful.
While we’re reminiscing, I remember learning about the first Russian attacks on Ukraine when I was slinging Ethernet cables at a hospital at 2AM. Drove back the next week to a bunch of Ukrainian flags everywhere. Work must continue I suppose.
My mum to me, when I haven’t heard about some recent event: “where do you get your news, tetris?”
I don’t. I’m often behind on current events, until it bubbles up and spills over into my periphery, and then I go do some reading usually after the hype bubble has burst. It’s great, but lonely.
I’ve been detoxing from “news media” and this is the dream I strive for. I feel the main pain comes from the news having to be exciting or angering or biased to make a profit. If they didn’t have to play to your emotions I’d bet staying informed would be a lot less stressful.
For a moment I thought your mother was implying you got your news from playing Tetris.
I mean I broke the news about the Israel-Palestine conflict to some dude in an online game. They were very receptive about it.
While we’re reminiscing, I remember learning about the first Russian attacks on Ukraine when I was slinging Ethernet cables at a hospital at 2AM. Drove back the next week to a bunch of Ukrainian flags everywhere. Work must continue I suppose.