it’s still called going to the library here and it’s freehttps://twitter.com/autotrnslucence/status/1017154784162222080 …
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Replying to @plell
I don't know what libraries you go to, but at mine the librarians don't interview you then hand you a tightly curated stack of essays and longform articles to read every day. Unless you need something specific, then librarians are great.
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Replying to @autotrnslucence @plell
And involves going to a physical place. The service I'm thinking about is not, afaict, in competition with libraries - more news feeds.
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people are already capable of reading beyond their newsfeeds. ‘services’ like this are monetized technofascism in drag. what you are proposing is a chum bucket for the minds of spoiled valley liberpiglets. by eradicating chance and error you eradicate choice
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also in blinkering users from random access knowledge and the common ground a newsfeed provides you create deeper fissures in an already fractured society
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I feel like the FB newsfeed provides an illusion of common ground, but actually silos and isolates us from other interdependent communities/cultures more than, say, the 2010-era blogosphere.
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