- https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day)
Local:
- https://publicola.com (20/month)
- https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month)
- https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month)
- https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month)
- https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month)
- https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month)
- https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day)
Tech:
- https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week)
- https://this-week-in-rust.org (1/week)
- https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix (1/week)
- https://discourse.nixos.org/top (5/day)
Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).
What RSS reader do you use to keep up with all this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
Personally I use Feedbin with Unread.
1.NFL: $17 million
2. IPL: $13.4 million
3. EPL: $11 million
4. MLB: $11 million
5. NBA: $9 million
https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://restofworld.org/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ https://pudding.cool/ https://www.nytimes.com/timeswire
- a story makes claims about women in the news, without any controls or comparison to men (i.e. it's useless)
- a story presents one of those toy economic models about random trades between people, not realizing they are complete nonsense with zero predictive power
This is just what I notice on a first visit. It's extremely well produced nonsense.
They’re cute little stories with decent presentation, not the economist.
The feeds themselves are mostly random subreddits, Hypebeast, some NYTimes sections, etc.
It works a lot better than manually going to each website and browsing around looking for new content.
They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.
Putting things into meme categories like this is really just embodying division...
Given time and interest, an honest search for knowledge is preferable to reading a set number of ideologically-rooted viewpoints.
However, given a lifetime of experience, many people have political philosophies. Right or wrong ([1]), they aren’t wanting to be challenged on any meaningful level with most articles they read.
My take is that probably only something on the order of 1% of Americans are using substantial critical thinking when reading news.
I don’t want to sound like I’m just complaining, so I’ll offer this actionable hypothesis. We are expecting too much of people given their stretched attention spans and carnivorous media habits. When I say “expecting too much”, I’m saying that it is statistically impossible for more than a rarefied subset of people to engage in a meaningful way under such conditions.
If we want some sort of Athenian town hall discussions, we would have to change the rules and context of discussion. Allowing people to bounce around cyberspace, commenting with about as much thought as birds put into mid-flight pooping is just not going to give satisfactory results.
Notes:
1. Wrong! … I’d say a vast majority of people are wrong to think their underlying philosophies about politics or human psychology are good enough as is. They are “good enough” for a token level of understanding and tribal echo chamber discussion.
If I could be benevolent version of Rupert Murdoch for a day, and hoped to educate an audience, I would still struggle to find effective ways to succeed at engaging the audience for any meaningful kind of ‘educational’ content. Heck, as much as I like comedic style news stories (a la John Oliver) they aren’t really showing how to do critical thinking. They are still largely emotionally driven, non-scholarly looks at current events. While I happen to agree with many of Oliver’s calls to action, his rhetoric vastly overshadows his analysis.
This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Matt Levine writes a great daily newsletter, Money Stuff. Often there is a topic in finance that I don’t really understand - recent examples are GameStop, FTX, Silicon Valley bank. He summarises the issue in a very clear but also funny and engaging way. You can sign up to the newsletter for free.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
Namely, I think one of the worst "features" in RSS readers is "tracking whether or not you've read every single little thing with numbers," so I wrote mine to just leave all that out and give me the top 20 or so of the day. If I miss anything, SO WHAT.
Run by the tireless Tara Calishain. Covers the world of search engines, archives, social media, online information collections, and other interesting stuff. She's been running the site 1998. Not many sites like this around much these days.
For those of you who are more interested in very specific information, there's also ResearchBuzz Firehose, which indexes individual items so you can do tag- and query-monitoring without trouble. Here's an article on how to make the most of it: https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/23/introducing-the-researchb...
It's wonderful to see people getting into RSS and news feeds again. I have a site called RSSGizmos.com with a number of tools for making the most of RSS, including a keyword-based RSS feed generator and a tool to make RSS feeds using Bing News' loc: syntax.
Everything's free and there are no ads.
Thank you again, it was so kind of you to mention my site.
I probably lack some worthwhile cultural hinterland due to HN's liberal but sciencey remit. Arts & Letters Daily would be a good addition.
But there's nothing that really feels of comparable value for me personally and I've tried many of the options that are suggested here and have been before in these kinds of threads.
At the same time, A&L Daily curates a certain type of content that I haven't seen targeted anywhere else in a feed/aggregation. There's a certain amount of overlap with HN, but it's kind of complementary. I wish there was something like A&L Daily that was updated more often, with more material, but maybe it's just not out there.
I’ve been getting my daily news recap from 1440. It keeps to the claim of unbiased summaries and is the length I’ve been looking for.
Sadly, doesn't work w/o javascript...
Electronics (diy): https://hackaday.com/blog/
They banned me on their forums after I said hello, so the moderation is a bit questionable. Content is good though.
https://www.axios.com/ https://theconversation.com/ https://futurism.com/ https://www.futurity.org/
To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210
You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link.
If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210
Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!
It actually works better than HN as you don't get distracted by all the hypes or up/down-voting drama (you can also add the HN feed).
Brave also has a newsfeed that's tempting to switch over to.
I used to love reading the news on Facebook, but not anymore. It's all agendas and people with axes to grind.
and Twitter etc
I've also set up a page so other people can see my subscriptions / what I'm reading: https://sources.werd.io
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
When I find an interesting personal website there I add it to my Telegram RSS feed notifier (@feedzbot), which notifies me twice a day with their new posts. At this point I have 50+ feeds there so the feed is pretty long.
Allsides.com does not fix the eternal vigilance needed for news cycles in our modern age, but it does make it easier.
If someone wants an invite, let me know by email (see profile).
If you want to bypass the (unethical) middleman, try this feed:
https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/
Edit: oh. you’re the middleman. https://bradgessler.com/projects/legible-news/
It’s about as unethical as clicking the “Reader” button in your browser.
Another way of getting news is an old fashioned newspaper. Being able to leaf through it lets you see headlines and quickly scan an article to see if it's interesting compared to clicking around on the web. I actually find it a fairly nice way to see lots of different things.
There are many things in the newspaper that are interesting to read that I likely wouldn't have clicked on if I saw the title in some news feed.
It is an excellent jumping off point!
Here's an incomplete list of the pages which I check on a daily basis.
Tech:
https://lobste.rs/ https://www.infoq.com/ https://simonwillison.net/ https://inside.java/
Art: https://www.artnews.com/ https://www.monopol-magazin.de/
News: https://www.spiegel.de/ (mainly, but others too!)
Quite hilarious when I read about some Elon Musk drama or similar in the main stream news before it shows up on HN - usually stories I end up finding in both turn up on HN first.
That's all I read - no social media or anything, too much noise, costs too much time. I'm just trying to keep an eye on what's going on in my country, the world and my field. Used to read Slashdot and others for the latter, but lately I noticed HN has pretty much everything I find relevant (and the odd delightful oddity, my favourites).
The rest are RSS feeds of blogs and other sources picked by myself.
And remember slashdot.com?
It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.
