My brain was not designed for anything. It was not designed.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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"The human mind has not adapted to this level of bad news"
Yet
I'm going to stare into the abyss until it blinks first
Sure it has, meet my brain's healthy levels of bitter sarcasm and bitter cynicism!
I feel like it kind of has.
Otherwise, people who are about 40+ years old would all be driven mad by now.
We must leave behind the fiction that a God created us. There is no God, we have no souls.
Your brain is one of the most artificial things in existence. How many years did you spend in formal education in one form or another? What is education other than a way of shaping a mind to a certain form?
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Oh, great… more bad news.
I want to read this in Marvin's voice from HHTTG
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they've got me delivering bad news.
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its by design from murdoch, to putin and bannon its called flooding the zone, so your other heinous acts get drowned out. its whats trump doing in the news right, epstein is barely registering at all on news right now.
I'd argue that it was never designed for this much stimulation full stop. All the constant noise and things competing for attention all the time around you. Bad news is just the nasty icing on the cake.
One of the reasons I LOATHE advertising. They are legitimately overstimulating all of society and manipulating their thoughts at the same time. They are in actual fact, driving the world into literal psychosis. These people are beyond evil.
The environment we have created is so fast-paced and complex that our brains are often in a constant state of overwhelm. We were never meant to be always available, always aware of everything and always caught in the belief that we have to react to everything at a time.
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I use RSS now for news.
Its been so liberating. I can read offline, save articles for later, no ads or paywalls, no algorithms, no bullshit.
I highly recommend.
I've been doing the same. The issue is finding high quality feeds with full articles. Most are just a snippet of the article with a link saying "read the full story at..." (The Verge, PBS, The Guardian). Others are even worse and just link directly to the shit-laden website (Ars Technica). The best quality news feeds I've found are Techdirt and The Intercept. Would you care to share some good RSS news feeds you've found?
So for those style websites, FreshRSS (my server)/and CabyReader (my client) offer options to parse the linked article for content.
They mostly get the full article without tinkering but other sites I use css selectors to get the article section of the website.
Then I press the "parse" button if the article is just a summary and it'll get the whole article.
That said, I do put more emphasis on following individuals rather than large sites like those you mentioned. So I have a couple dozen individual blogs followed, but also a handful of sites like NewScientist, BigThink, AndroidPolice, TinyBuddha, VICE
Okay, that's very cool. I'm into self-hosting and will look into running FreshRSS to parse sites and feed me articles. Much appreciated!
what's your favourite rss aggravator?
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And the people who are in charge and doing evil things know this and are using it to their advantage.
I'm not sure I understand what "build healthier habits around how, when and where we get our news" exactly means and how that would help. I mean if TACO drops bombs on little kids, I can't think of how digesting this differently is going to be any healthier for me.
One thing I see a lot is the same event repackaged repeatedly with various headlines from different angles to elicit despair and outrage. If you heard about it once already, that is probably enough.
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I strictly get my news on the toilet
Its wild to see people type “this news isnt good for my mental health”. Like ignoring the planet dying is a price well paid for personal mental wellness. I guess we are doomed as a species. Its really humbling to learn our limits to change things.
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Switching from Reddit to Lemmy did wonders for my mental health. Less time doom scrolling, more time to engage with my hobbies
I feel the opposite, my feed is almost entirely people describing how the world is falling apart, how communism is good but not that communism, and Linux
Absolutely, lemmy has such a downer vibe to it, it’s not doing me any good using this platform lately.
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This is a problem I struggle with philosophically. I have lived in the US with a degree of privilege and I feel the price for that should include knowing how the proverbial sausage is made, that is, knowing all the crap that is being done to allow me to live in (meager) comfort.
It's Poor Things cranked up to eleven. The British empire is holding the beer of the American one. It's just too much.
The continual rush of news, propelled by the addictive properties of the YouTube algo, have driven me quite mad, albeit, I suffer from behavioral health problems already. I haven't found a balance to this.
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Title is true even without the last two words.
I've largely stopped actively following news because
- most of it is stuff we knew already
- I already find out all that I need to know and more involuntarily through occasional social media visits
I'd like to read summaries of a given week's news on the world, EU, national, and maybe local level once a week, tho. I'll check if there's anything like this for the world and EU scale and report back here if there is.
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Don’t tell me that then, you’re just making it worse.
Isn't this the thing we are doing by being on Lemmy? My mental state is better when I scroll the feed here, as opposed to scrolling reddit.
I do both still, but I'm nearing the phase where Lemmy gets more attention.
It's just fucked that I read too much so I might run out of content on Lemmy which pushes me to read the news then back to reddit untill I wake up again
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I am painfully aware.
"where we get our news."
And then they link to Reuters. LOL
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