After clogging my inbox to unusable levels, I've totally changed how I consume my newsletters and articles.

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2024 felt like the year that traditional media died and resurrected as a zombie. It's still there, it still moves, but there's no life behind its eyes. The focus on what would get enough clicks for advertising has produced services where you are the product.

X-Twitter has become too toxic to be a useful news source; Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky haven't attracted enough of a base to share local news in the way I saw previously on Twitter. I have seen news usage of Bluesky picking up recently but still nowhere near Twitter levels.…