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foldedspace is a personal blog at jdroth.com about history, culture and philosophy. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on quitting the news and political detox, including a graphic on becoming proactive. Commenters link to them in discussions about news consumption and political stress.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the graphic. For anyone else, the original article discussing the graphic: is here [0]. [0] http://www.jdroth.com/becoming-proactive/
Comment linking /becoming-proactive/
on “Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week”Submitted American Nations: Why the U.S. Is So Divided – And Why It Always Has Been as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> because you're not on the receiving end. Nope. I actually am at the receiving end. 2 of my cousins are married to illegal aliens (both Mexican women) and 1 couple has a child born here (so citizen). Still I had a moment of clarity when I realized that 1) Trump was indeed Democratically elected, and 2) I don't gain anything by fretting over and stressing over after reading 1 bad news after another about his policie…
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on “Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week”Submitted WIN-WIN vs LOSE-LOSE: Two Approaches to Conflict Resolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTL;DR: 1) You feel better 2) You were never actually accomplishing anything by watching the news 3) Most current-events-related conversations are just people talking out of their asses 4) There are much better ways to “be informed” 5) “Being concerned” makes us feel like we’re doing something when we’re not My own personal experience: I quit watching the news the day after the 2016 Election ended. I felt so ill the…
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on “Things You Notice When You Quit the News”
