do you still read articles?

I don’t have a custom style sheet for them like caek does though

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

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.

I read a lot of articles instead of book length non-fiction. Lots of good stuff around, especially easy to find via twitter

read the hell of of some articles. fuck yes articles

Anthropocene, deep fakes, Kashmir, Patricia Lockwood's cat. Fuck yeah baby!

i read tweets

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.

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

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

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.