I was referred to read the book “They Thought They Were Free” by one of the bees here and it’s great. I have a copy of it on document and my library has the audiobook version. I am studying Spanish and sometimes I think I’m such a hack at it but today’s lesson with my sweetheart Argentinian teacher made me feel like I’m making progress. Some dickwad at a karaoke bday party gave me covid last week. Today is the first day of being covid negative. Paxlovid sucks, though. I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be. I also finished studying pixelfed and cherry pick last week. Old friends are reaching out to me because the state of this country (the US) is scaring the shit out of everyone and they are coming to me to teach them about decentralized socials and because I worked as a human rights journalist/analyst for over a decade.* I guess they find comfort in talking to me. I donated money to archive.today and uhhh sh.itjust.works. Will donate to beehaw. My cherry pick instance is worried about being hosted here in the US and I told the mod I’ll try and help them figure out a move. So any thoughts on that would be great.
If you want a bit of a variety in book recommendations, bridging the US to Optimism gap would be Rising Out of Hatred. Then for the earliest national forest and wildfire relief, The Big Burn. People coming together to rebuild A Paradise Built from Hell.
For fiction/sci fi the new James S. Corey series starts with Mercy of the Gods. Its good. For RhE rebellious sci fi side, Red Rising and its series is quite good. Takes off, in my opinion, around the end if book 2 and into 3.
I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be.
This is such a, well, simple thing people seem to have forgotten still exists. Pair it with Firefox, uBO and NoScript, and it’s like reading a paper from 20 years ago, except just shit you might be interested in.
Can you give me a breakdown or a guide you’d recommend for doing this? I used to be an RSS junky years ago, but my skills atrophied. It sounds lovely and a fun distraction project for me.
I use Feedly these days. The search function is pretty good for if you don’t have a direct feed link. Some pubs do not put out feeds, but for everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Grouping feeds into categories is dead simple. There are some other features I don’t use, so I can’t speak to overall how it compares to other RSS aggregators. I don’t need a sprinkling of AI with my morning paper.
Exactly. And even if there isn’t an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.
Congratulations for discovering the reason I’m here. News has become a toxic space I felt a need to fix somewhere … it’s the First Amendment, and everyone’s worried about guns. And let’s not get started on the 14th.
I was referred to read the book “They Thought They Were Free” by one of the bees here and it’s great. I have a copy of it on document and my library has the audiobook version. I am studying Spanish and sometimes I think I’m such a hack at it but today’s lesson with my sweetheart Argentinian teacher made me feel like I’m making progress. Some dickwad at a karaoke bday party gave me covid last week. Today is the first day of being covid negative. Paxlovid sucks, though. I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be. I also finished studying pixelfed and cherry pick last week. Old friends are reaching out to me because the state of this country (the US) is scaring the shit out of everyone and they are coming to me to teach them about decentralized socials and because I worked as a human rights journalist/analyst for over a decade.* I guess they find comfort in talking to me. I donated money to archive.today and uhhh sh.itjust.works. Will donate to beehaw. My cherry pick instance is worried about being hosted here in the US and I told the mod I’ll try and help them figure out a move. So any thoughts on that would be great.
If you want a bit of a variety in book recommendations, bridging the US to Optimism gap would be Rising Out of Hatred. Then for the earliest national forest and wildfire relief, The Big Burn. People coming together to rebuild A Paradise Built from Hell.
For fiction/sci fi the new James S. Corey series starts with Mercy of the Gods. Its good. For RhE rebellious sci fi side, Red Rising and its series is quite good. Takes off, in my opinion, around the end if book 2 and into 3.
This is such a, well, simple thing people seem to have forgotten still exists. Pair it with Firefox, uBO and NoScript, and it’s like reading a paper from 20 years ago, except just shit you might be interested in.
Can you give me a breakdown or a guide you’d recommend for doing this? I used to be an RSS junky years ago, but my skills atrophied. It sounds lovely and a fun distraction project for me.
I use Feedly these days. The search function is pretty good for if you don’t have a direct feed link. Some pubs do not put out feeds, but for everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Grouping feeds into categories is dead simple. There are some other features I don’t use, so I can’t speak to overall how it compares to other RSS aggregators. I don’t need a sprinkling of AI with my morning paper.
Exactly. And even if there isn’t an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.
Congratulations for discovering the reason I’m here. News has become a toxic space I felt a need to fix somewhere … it’s the First Amendment, and everyone’s worried about guns. And let’s not get started on the 14th.