i usually read a ton of articles every day but i do my best to avoid opinion stuff, unless it's krugman or someone i trust. especially try to avoid the garbage hot take stuff cranked out by places like slate, etc, which more and more feels like automatic writing that exists for SEO purposes.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Slate does, however, employ Mark Joseph Stern, excellent on LGBT and legal questions.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
yeah, i still glance at it for certain writers -- fred kaplan is also good on a lot of stuff
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
dont even read definitive articles tbh
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
i don't read any articles but i love sharing them on social media to make my friends irate
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
For those of you that do read a lot of articles, what are your favorite sites? I really could use a few more good ones.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
ive started to read the new yorkers piling up in my apt (my mom split a subscrip with me this winter so she could get the tote bag) the last week or two, which id mostly neglected until now, and it’s the most articles ive consistently read in a while. reading about two every three days. i definitely have issues with the style, content and arguments of a lot of the pieces (ive always had trouble with literary essays’ tendecy of detouring into biographical or aesthetic ephemera (‘she was wearing grey pants’) just as they were getting into the nitty gritty of a contentious argument) but it’s been nice to just read about a diverse set of topics i don’t have any particular prior interest in. idk, im depressed rn and twitter/my phone makes me feel ill so im trying it out
― flopson, Thursday, 15 August 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
I just go around and browse Wikipedia articles. Particularly whatever happened on that day in history. Carl Reinicke's birth anniversary was a couple days ago so I've been listening to a lot of his stuff.
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
I mess with Longform.org a decent amount.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 15 August 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
This is including everything from newspaper articles to academic journal articles? Yes, all the time.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 August 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
to encyclopaedia articles etc?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 August 2019 01:46 (four years ago) link
i appreciate the morning news' daily headlines, e.g. https://themorningnews.org/post/tuesday-headlines-sure-youre-busier
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 August 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
I read tons of articles because they serve an important purpose in making sentences meaningful and comprehensible. How do you even get by in English without a/an and the?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 August 2019 03:19 (four years ago) link
the same way the russians do
― j., Thursday, 15 August 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
I don’t have a custom style sheet for them like caek does though
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 August 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
also this thread is nearly 24 hours in and it has just occurred to me to make a shit joke about looking at titty pics
truly print is dead
― Abigail, Wife of Preserved Fish (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 August 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
When I was a little girl, I had it drilled into my head that my ancestors were told they were illiterate and couldn't amount to anything. So we read everything: all the local newspapers, all of the opinions. At this late date, I'm not going to assimilate into a culture where we can't be bothered to find stuff on the web. In fact, I'm thinking of springing for a subscription to newspapers.com so I can have every article ever.
― Allergic to Calvin (I M Losted), Friday, 16 August 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
I read a lot of articles instead of book length non-fiction. Lots of good stuff around, especially easy to find via twitter
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 August 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
read the hell of of some articles. fuck yes articles
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 16 August 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Anthropocene, deep fakes, Kashmir, Patricia Lockwood's cat. Fuck yeah baby!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 August 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
i read tweets
― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
one of the very few useful things about Twitter is that it's how I find out about interesting articles. if more people used it to share interesting things to read rather than as a place to conduct internecine feuds, it would be a much less awful place.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
You can just follow editors and sub-editors of publications you like? The few I follow will usually just tweet the articles their section has been working on
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
oh, youvve read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 posts.— wint (@dril) October 3, 2015
tbh i still get much of my news from reading articles in the newspaper in the morning like a fckng n00b
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
i read a lot of articles but there is a significantly higher ratio of horrible to good these days, at least in my experience
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
part of the reason i unfollowed everyone on facebook was so i didn't have to get mad every time i encountered a horrible article that someone was either sharing in earnest or to indicate how horrible it was
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
needless to say, twitter was and is not a source of good articles for me lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
also links receive relatively low engagement so i think y'all occupy a niche
I'm constantly pushing articles to me e-reader. I really only read about half of what I plan on reading, but that still amounts to a lot of stuff. I have a harder time reading long articles on a computer or phone screen.
Usually I just find the articles on longform or follow links from here or other social networks
― silverfish, Friday, 16 August 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
I only read the Internet for the articles
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I open a lot of tabs of articles, does that count?
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 16 August 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 18 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 19 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Now more than ever I don’t want to read articles
― silby, Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
Would anyone else use a thread with a simple premise to share good articles you've read? I don't miss social media much at all, but I DO miss the aspects of stumbling across good writing and I want to know what you smart people have been reading.
I'll offer this from N+1 by Gabriel Winant about affect, hopelessness and organising (I read it about it here but fecked if I can remember where or who mentioned it): https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-22/essays/we-found-love-in-a-hopeless-place/
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
Do blog posts count? This one pointed out a lot of interesting things that might be BS but the Murakami section pretty convincingly shows really neat and specific thing being unavoidably lost in translation that to me invalidates a lot of Western appraisal of Murakami (which isn't at all the point of the post and probably contra the author's intention, but that was the cool part for me):
https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-the-japanese-language
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link
I read articles linked from the newsletters I subscribe to. Today in Tabs helped wean me off Twitter.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:52 (one month ago) link
Hell yes to blog posts. That post on Japanese is great, thank you.
I'm pretty time poor (I teach, so get no spare time during the day at ALL); I find stuff like Today in Tabs a bit overwhelming tbh.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
Sam Adler-Bell on Janet Malcolm: https://newrepublic.com/article/170930/janet-malcolm-dangerous-method
Lorca - Theory and Play of the Duende: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/LorcaDuende.php
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:24 (two weeks ago) link