mindful doomscrolling

Stop mindlessly doomscrolling—doom scroll MINDFULLY with the new “doomscrolling” scroll bar! (The best new computer UI element since the drop-down menu!)

Jan 13, 2025

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Background: “Doomscrolling” refers to the act of relentlessly scrolling through negative news online, often to the psychological detriment of the person scrolling. It may be surprising that a person would intentionally ingest distressing news, but consider that doom-adjacent news is more emotionally engaging than “normal” news: imagine the hypothetical article “Interest rates were raised by…