Is there a sane way to use the internet?

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Business, Technology

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ezra Klein joins Search Engine this week to answer a question that's increasingly confounded us: how do I use the internet now? How do I get information about the things I care about, without getting sucked into a vortex of opinion, unearned certainty, and yelling?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone quick note the episode you're about to hear it's a conversation recorded a while ago before the horrific events in Israel and Palestine
0:07.6	But it's about learning to use social media in a way that doesn't ruin your mind and so it helped me a lot this month
0:13.0	That's why we're airing it today
0:15.0	After short break a conversation with Ezra Klein where I ask him the question is it possible to use the internet right now in a sane way?
0:22.4	Spark your creativity with the Sims sometimes you might feel like you're not creative and you have to go in search of your creative spark again
0:33.6	Maybe this is catching up with creative friends
0:36.8	Experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe and thanks to the Sims inspiration
0:42.2	It's just one game and one spark away ready to spark something download the Sims 4 and play for free
0:52.8	We are living through a wild moment in American history
0:56.3	There are conspiracy theorists on house committees extremists on the Supreme Court and near fist fights on C-SPAN and with an intense White House battle ahead
1:05.3	We need a better conversation about the latest big election of our lives hosted by four former Obama aides
1:12.3	Pod save America hosts use their expertise to provide listeners with a no bullshit guide to democracy
1:18.2	Every week they break down all the political news that makes us laugh cry
1:21.7	And scream into the void tell us figure out what matters and what each of us can do about it
1:27.3	Pod save America the context you need for next week's news follow now so you never miss an episode
1:51.7	Okay, so this thing um, I don't need to yeah, yeah
2:09.8	All right, do you want me to have the headphones on or I don't need them, right? Whatever you want to do. I don't particularly want them
2:15.3	Okay
2:16.6	This week I'm a high-jacking the show from not I'm not sure who to ask a question that I personally have been trying to figure out
2:22.5	I miss having headphones hold on. I feel like otherwise. I'm just worried. I'm off like that. We'll do it together
2:29.5	Okay, this week I'm a high-jacking the show from who I'm not sure to ask a question that I personally have been trying to figure out
2:35.7	I might end up asking more than once this year. I hope you benefit from it too, but that's your business
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