Comment by sjw987

I read a few days down and stopped once I realized that absolute zero percent of any of it was useful information for me as a Northern European and all of it was terrible news. I don't think it's helpful for anybody that I know these things, while it is actually detrimental for my ability to be of service to other because of how it drains me.

Good point. My grandad used to call it the history as well!

While the presentation has merit, the events listed on this page at the time of this comment don't meet the my bar of one of:

1) Essential to not have missed for everyday conversation;

2) Will affect my decision making in some way;

3) Will be remembered a year later.

There is simply far too much news.

How does Wikipedia rank compared to news gathered by professional journalists and editors such as those at The Economist as mentioned?

TIL, thanks!

Subscribe to a few RSS feeds you like, and set up a cron job or something to send an assortment of them to your printer every sunday

I’ve been kicking around an idea for a while now that’s basically a no-headlines, curated (generally long-form) media aggregation site. No algorithm, no personalization, no AI. Just topics you can choose to follow.

The basic idea is you get one article at a time fed to you (no headline scrolling like Reddit or HN), and doesn’t let you proceed to the next article until you’ve scrolled through at least x% of the current article or spent a minimum time threshold reading it. Maybe allow a limited number of “skips” per day if the content really isn’t for you. Basically the idea is to force you to slow down and actually engage with the content by removing mechanisms that promote mindless scrolling and dopamine rush.

the closest thing is doing that to an epub to be sent to your e-paper device.

Depends on the publication.

I read The Economist, which doesn't cover sports at all.

It's mostly 1-2 page long articles for each story, blocked into categories (UK, Europe, US, The Americas, Asia, China, Business, Finance, Tech, Culture at the end).

Would that be this? Just checking:

https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief

It's a domain specific news I guess

no it's propaganda for a startup factory