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  • Doug Belshaw 8:35 pm on February 23, 2020 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Naval Ravikant, news   

    If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt.

    Naval Ravikant

     

  • Doug Belshaw 10:35 am on February 19, 2020 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Jonathan Swift, news,   

    Echoes of London coffee houses 

    I don’t think this needs spelling out, but Jonathan Swift, writing in the 18th century about coffee houses, could equally be writing in the 21st century about social networks.

    It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of a kingdom.

    Swift

    The problem, of course, is the hunger of lazy journalists, working for advertising-funded outlets, turning idle gossip and speculation into ‘news’.

     

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