I'd second Techmeme for tech news aggregation; great site and now with a newsletter too.
I actually built a general news aggregation newsletter inspired by Techmeme too (http://enclude.com) which uses ML to group the leading stories of the day together with the highest quality ones highlighted. My hope was to break people out of their filter bubble by exposing them to high quality coverage on the news of the day.
Did it as a daily email because I wanted it to be pushed to me and I wanted it to be limited meaning once you read it you're done. No need to suck up more time.
I've had no time to work on it and its in a state of disrepair but if anyone is interested in teaming up on it let me know.
No, it designed for email so there's not a public web site for the news itself but it wouldn't be too difficult to make. As I mentioned, however, this is a moribund service :)
the world would be a better place if someone wrote a platform to make your own platforms of these. i imagine a community, like a subreddit, would have a set of rss feeds etc that it follows, a group of people "swipe left or right" on the stories, and the winners move up the page. the difference from other platforms being that stories dont get direct submitted, and that the editorial boards ranking the stories stay fairly small and specialized.
What’s the political slant? I’m working my way down the memorandum front page articles and getting a very distinctly right wing vibe. Is that the norm, or just a momentary trend?
Memeorandum (general news): https://www.memeorandum.com/
Techmeme (tech news): https://www.techmeme.com/
Mediagazer (media sector news): https://www.mediagazer.com/
I’m constantly amazed at how many people have never heard of them. To me, they are indispensable.