In this it's not as quick to get the facts out as social media, but *knock on substantial amount of wood* you can use it to validate the arc of what you're hearing on social media, whether it is representative in a city, etc.
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If not obvious here, use case is mostly "Ignore who, why, how, and when. Just tell me: in an institution shaped like X in region Y, what is the ground truth. There are institutions shaped like X here, yoo."
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I find that even an epidemic is not enough to make me subscribe.
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I feel like we should talk about that preference someday when this is over because I shared it and am now updating very sharply against both the specific belief and also my previous impression of the general societal value of journalism. (I am aware this is not the zeitgeist.)
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Newspapers got it wrong a month ago, two months ago, three months ago I don't understand how their reporting of the future will be any more right in the coming 3 months

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Because you get to read about without loss of generality Italy or Iran today and then make high quality guesses about the future based on that. The papers will get the right answer to "Are there churches open in
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Imagine doing this. The best writing and information is right here on twitter. Unfiltered, nimble, insightful and direct from the source as it is thought. No gatekeepers, no narrative, no garden walls. And it's free. Every man a publisher.
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It is no knock against Twitter, and this is probably Twitter's finest hour, to say that you can save yourself a lot of time parsing a lot of tweets in a language you might not understand with one "We put a photo crew in a hospital in
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what sort of papers have you subscribed to for that?
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The usual suspects.
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