John Pfaff: But there's a uniquely repetitious, harp-on-the-worst aspect to social media (esp maybe here) that strikes me as uniquely toxic. I'm not closing my account, but I did just delete the app from my phone/iPad. Feel like this place is not going to be all that good for my mental health for a while.

This seems like the best (mini)thread to read. Maybe I'm just looking for copium, but worth remembering it's important to listen to the people who study the stuff most closely. Punditism isn't just limited to the official pundits, and social media def fosters a bad doomerism x punditry interaction.

For very different reasons and different circumstances, by far the most cringe-worthy debate performance I've ever seen is John Fetterman's PA Senate debate. And his polls didn't decline and he won. Just a good warning against overconfidence

It's not social media doing the doomerism, it's CNN...

But there's a uniquely repetitious, harp-on-the-worst aspect to social media (esp maybe here) that strikes me as uniquely toxic. I'm not closing my account, but I did just delete the app from my phone/iPad. Feel like this place is not going to be all that good for my mental health for a while.

The fact that the reporters swim in the same toxic social media as the rest of us doesn't help either.

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