Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

It means that you are not in control of any of it. You can't impact any of it meaningfully as a single force, at least in real time. People used to watch a "news hour" once a day. You could artificially recreate that, and then detatch for the other 23 hours using self control, muted phone notifications and browser filter extensions. And maybe your brain will thank you.

Of course you could have a separate rule for local alerts that may be more relevant, but local news is dying unfortunately, soo..... You could probably just check in once a week to see how the surviving local paper verbatim reprints favorable press releases from the city's PR person that they retain from the local municipal consultant group with a forgettable acronym.