{"id":17843,"date":"2025-02-23T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/want-to-stay-sane-try-switching-off-your-news-alerts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:37:19","slug":"want-to-stay-sane-try-switching-off-your-news-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/want-to-stay-sane-try-switching-off-your-news-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to stay sane? Try switching off your news alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as we need to stay informed, that relentless ping of potential horrors can\u2019t be good for us<\/p>\n

How are you not going mad?\u201d is a thing I\u2019ve heard recently. \u201cHow are you not talking about this all the time, how are you merrily, some say stupidly, going about your business as if the world did not feel like a coin in an arcade 2p machine, being pushed slowly but definitely off the edge and tasting of blood?\u201d My answer: I\u2019ve turned off breaking news alerts. More than that, I\u2019ve dramatically limited the news I read. How am I not going mad? This is how I\u2019m not going mad.<\/p>\n

Perhaps turning away from the news is a silly and job-endangering thing to admit to as somebody employed by a news organisation. Perhaps it\u2019s unattractive or exposing, as somebody living in a time when news is currency and ignorance is fatal. But I have seen the red-eyed horror of people immersed, I have felt the heat of anxiety, that burning shiver of the spine, and I\u2019ve lain awake beside scrolling thumbs that dig deeper and deeper into algorithms that know us better than our own mothers, and are just as likely to shape who we become.<\/p>\n

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\nAs much as we need to stay informed, that relentless ping of potential horrors can\u2019t be good for us
\nHow are you not going mad?\u201d is a thing I\u2019ve heard recently. \u201cHow are you not talking about this all the time, how are you merrily, some say stupidly, going about your business as if the world did not feel like a coin in an arcade 2p machine, being pushed slowly but definitely off the edge and tasting of blood?\u201d My answer: I\u2019ve turned off breaking news alerts. More than that, I\u2019ve dramatically limited the news I read. How am I not going mad? This is how I\u2019m not going mad.
\nPerhaps turning away from the news is a silly and job-endangering thing to admit to as somebody employed by a news organisation. Perhaps it\u2019s unattractive or exposing, as somebody living in a time when news is currency and ignorance is fatal. But I have seen the red-eyed horror of people immersed, I have felt the heat of anxiety, that burning shiver of the spine, and I\u2019ve lain awake beside scrolling thumbs that dig deeper and deeper into algorithms that know us better than our own mothers, and are just as likely to shape who we become. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as we need to stay informed, that relentless ping of potential horrors can\u2019t be good for us How are you not going mad?\u201d is a thing I\u2019ve heard recently. \u201cHow are you not talking about this all the time, how are you merrily, some say stupidly, going about your business as if the …<\/p>\n

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