There’s so much so-called “news”, but most of it is just noise. In this situation, it seems easiest to either A) get consumed by it, trying to follow everything and reading every “he said what?”-piece posted or B) become more or less apathetic and avoid news altogether.

To be able to make proper choices and help move things in the right direction, B) is not an option, as you need to understand current events to at least a minimal level, but A) leaves you just as clueless, overflowing with useless information, with a heavily worn-down ability to be source critical, not remembering where you read any given “fact”.

So how do you keep up to date with current events? Have you found a good way? Am I mistaken in my above assessment?

  • guy@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    Just eye the headlines and skip the ones not interesting?

    “Justin Bieber is having a baby” is a headline read, and article skipped. Thus to amount of energy is given and you can focus on other news of more interest.