Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by hopler on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:34AM
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You are talking about some different. Aaron was talking about reading news to learn about the world. You are talking about political activism.
For your activism goals, reading Twitter might help (although your time is likely better spent with algorithmic summarization than with reading garbage tweets one at a time)
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Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by l9k on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:17PM
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Swarz was an activist himself. You might say, not a "political" activist, but today even acknowledging science is political...
I think reading Twitter is generally a terrible idea, unless you carefully select who you follow, but you risk staying in your bubble, and adventuring yourself outside of it is even worse.