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I keep up with the news. Maybe a little too much.

There’s a habit of mine that I probably should reign in, and it’s clicking links and obligating myself to read them.

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SWinxy

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There’s a lot of news going around, and I decided to keep track of what I read. Part of me wants to brag, while another part of me is concerned at all the time I spend engaged with it. Some of it was inspired by this NYT article I read in 2024 of where Trump’s jurors got their sources of information. So on March 1st, I started a document and posted links to all the news articles I completed in the month, which appear at the end of this blog post.

Analyzing the record brings insight into my reading habits: where I get my news sources from, the diversity of voices, my focal interest, and more. While I already had a sense of these, I never had a true accounting of it. Now, I have clear data on it all, and I want to share it.

Overwhelmingly, the news I come across is shared via Bluesky, the good microblogging website. I see it on my feed, and I open it in a new tab for later reading, usually after I catch up on my following feed, or later in the day. Occasionally, I’ll read it within the next day. Sometimes a piece is lengthy enough that I have to read it over several days or postpone starting it so I can work through smaller articles.

Unsurprisingly to me, I have a wide variety of outlets that I read from. The biggest in politics being the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and NBC News. I hold distain towards the Times for its treatment of transgender people and the Post for its steady erosion caused by Bezos. But I still read them because they have excellent reporting.

Though, smaller, less-resourced publications are rising. Hell Gate and 404 Media are both small worker-owned publications that I adore. Hell Gate covers my home of NYC, and 404 Media my digital home of the internet. There are a few other outlets here, too, like Aftermath, Defector, and The Handbasket, which are all great worker-owned outlets doing great journalism.

Most articles are published on the weekdays, and leave weekends freer. There were a few days where I didn’t read anything at all, because I was busy doing other things. I still read articles published on those days, but put off for the following day.

The articles here show my interests well: tech, Gaza, American politics. Overshadowing March has been the self-imposed and foolish Iran war Trump started and its consequences. AI is a huge thing right now, and its slopification/pollution of the entire online ecosystem is of concern.

It’s a ton of stuff. I go through times where I’m very open to reading everything I come across, only for me to feel out of energy after a period and resolving to be more selective. I think I’ll do that, considering I’m late to publishing a software I’ve promised would be out by now.

The full list is below if you want to see what I’ve been reading. Scroll down to random parts and check out what I had my eye on on random days.

March 1

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