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 (one week ago) link