I find my days to be much better overall when I don't spend a lot of time online over an extended period. I’m more productive, more creative, and less anxious. I still find out all the impactful stuff, anyway.

Its not like knowing the bad news as it happens helps me in any way, genuinely, so why bother wasting all my bandwidth on it?

My dumb monkey brain is meant to tell five kinds of poisonous berries from the one edible kind. What does it do with an international pedophile ring, climate collapse, and rising inequality? Shuts down is what it does.