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usonian

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22. DU is largely a news aggregator.

Wed May 6, 2026, 10:39 AM

Wednesday

I fly by most, and have to ignore some fun forums just to have time for life.

Same for Hacker News.

I ignore vast numbers of trolls, get transcripts of maybe one really interesting video a day, block Mark Romano, the guy who jam-packs two sentences of info into a 30 minute video, and ignore one-issue posters (AI, how did you guess?)

I actually get great intellectually-savvy criticism of AI on the technically populated Hacker News forum.

And I spend some time making semi-original and (of course) wildly creative graphics.

Since DU as a news aggregator reflects news sources in large part, it can be depressing. But humans do filter well.

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