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It's important to learn to recognise when your media consumption starts to resemble the pulling of a lever on a slot machine.

I find aggregators like the HN frontpage or my Mastodon timeline enjoyable, I can not deny that at all. But the deeper reason for it lies in the addictive properties of mechanisms that offer variable rewards. The is the same basic brain chemistry als results in gambling addiction. Arguably, following links is less likely to end in losing the roof over your head than habitual gambling, just remember: there but for the grace of god go I...