/lit/ - Literature

>>22425461
>I have a couple substacks followed plus The New Yorker, NYRB, NYTimes, n+1 and the criterion

>>22425461
>newsletters
>in 2023

>>22425461
I HAVE TO BE INFOOOOOOORMED
RUSSIA UKRAINE RUSSIA UKRAINE AAAHHH TRUMP GEORGIA EUROPEAN REGULATIONS

>>22425531
>>22425567
>>22425577
Getting a lot of flak for this but I think newsletters can be a useful tool— it just depends on how you use them. I'm not suggesting to blindly follow or read all their articles but I don't have enough time to look through their cluttered, ad-filled websites to figure out what is new, let alone worthwhile.

I think they can help you get a view of the media/information landscape and find interesting writers/topics.

>>22425632
>I think they can help you get a view of the media/information landscape and find interesting writers/topics.
you do realize that 99.999% of that is going to be forgotten in a year because it's genuinely useless, right?
these news letters are full of the information history will not preserve and immersing yourself in it will only allow you to get a feel for the cultural topology of a given field or location which is useful to very very few people and I doubt you're one of them
it smells like fomo

>>22425632
No anon, you have to follow the 4chan /pol/ hivemind which is far superior to that other hivemind. Just trade one dogma for another bro.

>>22425660
I think even if it's forgotten it lays in my subconscious but regardless of the debate of it's productivity, I pursue cultural/political relevancy as an end in and of itself, similar to literature.

>>22425778
a far better option is to develop qualities that will allow you to be what they're talking about

>>22425778
>>22426069
actually wait, what do you mean "similar to literature"

>>22426069
>>22426084
I'm not reading for the sake of developing some qualities or self-improvement. It's not a means to some end.

I like Bloomberg and The Financial Times

If you want to mine all the news of the whole world for "just the good stuff," I strongly recommend The Economist. Their articles are almost all without fail great news, their style uses more dry humor than other news sources, and their magazine comes with audio (by humans, not by AI) subscription, it runs 7-9 hours for every issue (it's a weekly magazine)

hijacking the thread, any book recs on politics, economics, and stuff that will give me some footing in understanding society?

>>22426443
i.e. works that allow one to think critically about concepts and events, rather than fit them into some sort of ideological slot.
people are very keen on avoiding thinking by just hammering things into ideological frameworks.

>>22426449
You can't have meaningful analysis without an ideology. The best you can do is read different perspectives, primary sources or find analysts that have a similar ideology. A good start pointing might be to read political theory and media theory— Noam Chomsky, Foucault , etc.

>>22425632
You miss the point entirely.
A good newsletter requires a lot of work and that by itself requires time and effort which in other words is money. The media companies make money through ads, they hate anything that points directly to their content bypassing all the ads, media companies naturally will not send out newsletters ( or if they do it's gonna be garbage). Regarding consumers, no one will ever pay for an independant newsletter, if it's not free it might as well not exist at all.

Tldr newsletter cost money but they don't bring any money in

>>22426678
Media companies want me to keep consuming their content so presumably the newsletter would want to highlight their best content. This would imply they only link their own content but if they add more content, it improves their odds that I look at their newsletter and hence also their content.

A paid newsletter is not out of the question either if you have a suggestion.

>>22425461
Liferea has custom script support so I assume you could parse Sci-Hub and read any scientific journal you like, but nonny, why read The New Yorker and the New York Times?

>>22426753
thank you for the suggestion, I'll check it out

The New Yorker sometimes releases interesting short stories or digression into certain parts of culture that are noteworthy, their writing is also usually good. Lately I haven't been reading it though, I don't care that much about their "about New York pieces" and their celebrity interviews in general are just more sophisticated yellow news. Ultimately, with large clout comes the ability to acquire good writers.

NYTimes: beyond having such a large and reliable scope with journalists everywhere, they're the most read news source in the world, giving me a view into the mind of the average educated newsreader a.k.a. what most people perceive as politically relevant.

The ideal newsletter I wish existed would be published once every two months, talking about world events from around half a year ago that still seem relevant after the initial news cycle blew them up into 'that thing everyone has to pay attention to right now'.
I don't need news every day or even every week, and I don't need to know what's happening right now.

>>22426849
so it turns out I've never heard of RSS feeds before and this seems like a big life improvement. Some of the websites i follow don't have one which is tragic but if I start using RSS a lot I could cook up some webscraper for the sites that don't have it.