Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022)

Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022) by haberman on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:27PM (#37277866)

> Normally I follow the news every hour or so, getting a drip-feed of anxiety-provoking facts and trying to smush them together into some kind of sense. Instead, I simply read a physical newspaper once a day.

I really miss the newspaper as a daily thing with a front page, sections, and a finite set of articles. Online news outlets (not to mention social media) all seem to exist in an "infinite scroll" model of constantly rotating stories that never run out. To get the daily model, it seems like you have to order a physical paper, but that's less desirable on account of the waste and clutter.

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Re:Attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen (2022) by shepherdjerred on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:45PM (#37277951)

For a brief time, I had the NYT sunday edition delivered to my house. I quickly discovered that the information was mostly useless to me, and it took way too much of my time to read all the way through.

I ended up subscribing to Delayed Gratification (https://www.slow-journalism.com/) as a sort of middle ground. I get a nice, physical thing I can read. I'm able to read about current events, and all of the noise is filtered out for me.

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