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It's a little light and snarky for my taste, but if you see it as a thin slice of "what people are talking about" more so than "what happened," then it makes se
by burlesona 6y ago
It's a little light and snarky for my taste, but if you see it as a thin slice of "what people are talking about" more so than "what happened," then it makes sense. If you read this every day it basically hands you clever hot takes on current events you can use to sound smart with your friends. Not hard to see the appeal.
Personally, for thin-sliced news that's more about "what happened," I prefer Axios :)
- whydoineedone 6y agothat's actually spot on. I used the newsletter to impress my MBA friends a couple of times but felt like a fraud.
- ghego1 6y agoI also really like Axios, always very informative
- ApolloFortyNine 6y agoI agree about the tone, but the 5 minute daily read to get some idea about things that happened the day before is really appealing. I get to have at least some idea what happened without having to scroll past the same topic repeated for the thousandth time or some sort of clickbait title. I looked for some other "5 minute news" alternatives when I first found it, and didn't really find anything in the same vein.
- nicbou 6y agoThen you would love Wikipedia's current events page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- gibspaulding 6y agoThis is great! I've been passively looking for a concise list of world events without any sports for a while now. We'll see how it works long term, but I was able to get the daily list to show up in my RSS feed with this: https://patrick.cloke.us/posts/2017/05/26/rss-feeds-for-wikipedia-current-events-and-nhl-news/ https://patrick.cloke.us/posts/2017/05/26/rss-feeds-for-wiki...