I know, but us zoning out is exactly what they want by overwhelming us with as much bullshit as possible atm.
I think a good tool against this could be to have an international nonprofit organization of investigative journalists, OSINT experts, and detectives (and experts in seeing through AI abuse and other fraudulent media behaviour, and as soon as they build reputation they would need damn good lawyers too). They would act as a fast-response crack-team to look under the covers every time any powers-that-be launch a news cycle chaos-offensive (which sadly these days is “all the time”). Not just as a side-hustle or section of a general publication, but as its own non-profit-beholden organisation dedicated to that task.
They would follow the timings and run contextual pattern recognition on all the big/fishy “look over here” announcements (or character hit-pieces attacking the credibility of people sharing uncomfortable or explosive information). Their explicit goal though would be surfacing the most promising other stories that are being buried, combine and tug on those threads to discover what kind of meta-stories and deeper narratives are being lost in the “manufactured mainstream” noise, and provide announcements/advice/guidance to other journalists and reporters on what to do next with those. They would need to all be highly experienced and disciplined expert investigators of impeccable integrity to provide adequate mental-vaccination against risks of sliding into conspiracy-hypothesising tin-hat territory due to the nature of the work.
In addition to the obligatory website for people to discover and learn about them, they could provide a non-paywalled RSS stream of their findings, tongue-in-cheek naming it “While you were out”, maybe with a sister podcast discussing their findings called “Excuse me, I think you dropped this”.
This is a great idea! I would totally donate to such a thing.
Related to this: That’s why Wikipedia is now in the crossfire, as they document everything and anything that is going on, which is a pain in the ass for those robber barons.
Check out propublica. They partner with a lot of local journalists to tease out deeper stories, often in topics that aren’t getting much press. They would absolutely appreciate a donation.
Thanks. Had heard the name but didn’t really know “what they do” in that sense. Will check them out.
I love this idea and would donate to something like this.
I’m down 100%. Also give them rifles. Now we’re talking.
Seconded. Limit your screentime and filter out any communities and social media that seem like a broken record. Energy is a must if the 50501 movement is going to continue.
For others who, like me, haven’t yet heard what the 50501 Movement is, here you go
I can’t recommend going to a protest enough. It’s incredibly reaffirming to have a crowd around you that believes the same thing you do.
people with their one liners like “i’m tired boss” need to do one
What was the term? “Flooding with shit” so you don’t take anything seriously anymore and when they do something, they can say I told you so
Flood the zone?
Thanks. I knew something was missing
I like yours better.
Also shock and awe
I don’t even live in america and get constantly bombarded with american news every time I open lemmy
There’s a time and a place for news from outside of my country but I don’t want to be bombarded with it 24/7 qnd the word filters don’t help for titles that don’t mention anything specific or are too generic
At this point in time, I expect my government to distance us from the US and to take measures to become more independent and closer to the rest of our allies. I don’t expect the US to become sane in the next years, and I’m not sure if they manage to switch to a normal state after Trump, and even if I don’t trust them anymore.
Yeah until we have some kind of broad reform you shouldn’t trust us. We’ve shown incredibly bad judgement.
I thought there were some lessons learned after the first ride, but after the last few weeks? Oh my god, what the heck is happening? Y’all on quarantine until the disease died off.
Mood
Content filter “trump” “musk” “Israel” Lemmy becomes a much nicer place to visit than the cesspool it currently is
It barely works. So many posts that don’t have those words in the title. I have “Musk” on filtered keywords and still seen this very post on my feed.
You’re missing out on a lot of perfume news though
You need to add more terms to the filter, then.
My feed isn’t perfect but its well curated and saves me a lot of stress.
I’ve got tons of filtered words but still see Musk and Trump everywhere on my feed on account of posts that don’t use their names or any politics related words in the title.
Maybe it’s because they’re subverting the largest and most powerful democracy in the world. Wait until the real purges start. I bet you won’t be able to dig a hole deep enough to fit your head.
It makes Lemmy usable but it’s not perfect. I have an agressive filter list with every American term I can think of. All the state names, all the politicians and political terms. Combine that with blocking lots of communities and I only have to see a small percentage of Americans.
I did this (using Sync app) about a month ago after seeing the suggestion and my god it has made a good impact on my mental health. You stil get a bit of crap about those dickheads when not directly mentioned in the title but its a big improvement.
Ignorance is bliss.
I can’t find a place to define filters, only blocks for users/communities/instances. Does it exist in the default browser client and I’m missing something?
Yes, as someone who doesn’t use third party apps, I’d like to know this too.
Yeah. Its not perfect but filtering primary news topics makes casual browsing much more chill
Infotainment media is mental illness itself, compulsive and addicted, with no memory retention nor ethical compass, it amplifies what is worst in man, it FEEDS it.
And that’s not even considering enemy propaganda from china and russia infiltrating itself into peoples minds, trying to destabilize democracies.
Fuck your sociopathic industry, what you made it into.
So, so tired…
Reminds me this gem from 8 years ago that aged like a fine wine
The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?
“They thought they were free” by Milton Mayer.
Trump/musk/Vance says/said/claims/promises/threatens/slams/alleges, etc… add those to your voyager filter, and it’ll make your feed a lot cleaner by removing a lot of the 2016-esque BS headlines.
Slams! Bashes! Spanks!
People love to take pictures of this guy when he’s out for a smoke
That’s the point
He needs the Homer Stokes treatment. He basically is Homer Stokes.
Me too
have a rest
