cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10828079

We all get bored sometimess and scroll mindlessly through various social media feeds, like instagram (fuck you), reddit (fuck you) or lemmy (no offense, love you guys).

Most of the time content is a wild mix of everything, from news to memes and educational stuff, and very hard to filter out.

Is there anything out there that contains educational stuff only? where you can just sit there, scroll through it and learn something. thinking of like a short text or image showing some facts, or some math examples, or physics, or whatever.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So…mindful scrolling?

    I think you’d want to roll your own, basically. Get an RSS reader, subscribe to some journals, some sites like Mentalfloss and Atlas Obscura that “blogitize” information, maybe follow scientists’ RSS feeds on Mastodon or Bluesky. If you follow enough, it’ll be an effectively infinite scroll every time you open it.

  • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That would be considered as mindless scrolling through pop-science tabloids. That isn’t going to make you smart, or educate you about anything. Actual learning is really hard, and takes a lot of effort.

    Currently, I’m finishing “Modern C” by Jens Gustedt - which is understandable - it’s just me going through C again for better understanding, but the other book I’m reading right now - “Algorithms in C” by Robert Sedgewick is damn hard, and unlike anything I’ve read before. I’ve completed one of the online versions of “Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach” by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne before, and it was the most painful six months of total concentration. It was extremely difficult, but I learnt quite some stuff.

    So yes, books are actually really good. RSS is also pretty neat, if you’re following some good blogs. Personally, I love reading Evan Ovadia’s blog on his new programming language Vale.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I disagree. Learning absolutely does not have to be really hard. Learning can be fun can you can motivated by curiosity. The best physics, research, and computer science professors I ever had were not the people that focused on the grind. They were able highlight something fascinating and dope, then make exploring that thing feel like solving a fun puzzle.

      Moreover, if you’re recreationally curious about something you by no means need to study the full thing. People should be encouraged to be curious about lots of things. It’s ok to snack from the science sampler platter without getting into the kitchen. Explore the dope theory and high level gestalt first. Have fun.

      If you’re curious about lots of things, you’re more likely to stumble upon something that you’re passionate about. And it’s WAY easier to get into the weeds with something that you’re passionate about.

  • montar@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Would you like an Asimov book maybe? Not a social media but they can make your brain work.

  • dez@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Dont know if this help, but buy a book about something you like (anything that you like, since a theme you want to learn or a musican that you admire).

    I stop reading but I want to return , even more when I bought last year a book about learnings skills/talent

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I know this will be downvoted to hell but. My tiktok is 99% educational content since i didnt press like on any dancing or rage content videos early on. Also theres a stem feed.