do you still read articles?

i read a lot of articles but there is a significantly higher ratio of horrible to good these days, at least in my experience

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

needless to say, twitter was and is not a source of good articles for me lol

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

I only read the Internet for the articles

I open a lot of tabs of articles, does that count?

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Now more than ever I don’t want to read articles

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/

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

I read articles linked from the newsletters I subscribe to. Today in Tabs helped wean me off Twitter.

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.

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