Where are you getting your information from?

For the most part, I stopped looking. Once the dust settles, you realise that most of what you've read was either speculation or oversimplification. Everyone got their panties in a bunch, and lost interest before the media could get the facts right.

In any case, I'm powerless to affect any of it. The best I can do is get upset.

So I try to read about things that happened longer ago. I try to read about places, culture, and things that move slow enough to be worth following. I like to take a slow, deep dive into countries I'm about to visit. I like to Google things I don't understand.

It's hard to find a good source for that. I'd recommend https://longreads.com/

I stopped getting/looking for information related to society as a whole.

Most of the time it’s information I have no leverage over or can’t do anything with the information

Often it’s just people giving their opinion or exhorting me to submit and follow their opinion (if you believe that you are X, we don’t have time to wait because of Y, I can’t believe still believe Z in 2022)

My default mode is that I just explore my own topic of interest and ignore everything else.

If someone is trying to talk to me about the latest societal trend/fade I just cut the conversation and move on

From anonymous cranks in Twitter and 4chan, they seem to have a very high batting average compared to credentialed people these days.

I use https://sumi.news (I made it).

My comment from a recent similar discussion (how to meet interesting people online) <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32669503>