Breaking News : Reading RSS feeds is now a skill 
, akin to taming dragons 
or finding a unicorn 
. Apparently, scrolling through endless lists of headlines is the new Olympic sport 
. Maybe next, we'll be told that breathing is an art form 
.
https://www.doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill #BreakingNews #RSSfeeds #OlympicSport #DigitalSkills #TamingDragons #HackerNews #ngated
www.doliver.orgReading RSS content is a worthwhile but skillful activityShit's gotten weird out there. The internet has devolved from something that was mostly quirky and altruistic to something that, in many ways, is straight-up evil. Companies have commoditized user attention through an economic framework that is completely divorced from the user's experience: Advertisers go to some ad platform, set up a few tags, and third parties shill for them without knowing anything about advertiser or user. The user's experience is determined by some algorithm whose sole purpose is to increase engagement, so the effects on the user are harmful and unknown, and advertisers don't care.
