Most of the French feeds are actually in English (although from French news agencies). And there's something off about the Twitter panel because half of the feeds are in Japanese.
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#62The "Some Facts" panel presents a meta joke by repeating a brain claim: Some Facts.. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. I hope the next refresh will be three claims that a goldfish has a 3-second memory
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#63The "Some Facts" panel presents a meta joke by repeating a brain claim: Some Facts.. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. I hope the next refresh will be three claims that a goldfish has a 3-second memory
Also, it should be "pharaoh".
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#64I have long wanted a layered, hierarchical, curated aggregator for the most the most important news articles.
It should be be browsable by region (world - continent - country), by timeframe (year - month - day), by topic (economy, politics, ...) and should group multiple articles for the same event.
Right now it's very hard to find info for questions like "what happened in Africa last month", "what changed in Taiwan last year", etc.
Unfortunately that would probably require a lot of human curation for now.
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#65Why do I need any headlines at all to start my day? Why can't I start my day by focusing on my immediate vicinity and those around me?
The site caters to those who self-selected to start their day with the news. I believe that is implied.
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#66Cryptocurrency is really something you don't need to hear anything about to be able to start your day.
And if you're into crypto, the last thing you want in the morning is an anxiety-inducing reminder of short-term volatility.
If you're not into cryptocurrencies, then the volatility won't induce any anxiety since you don't care. And if you are into cryptocurrencies, you're already aware of the extreme volatility, some headlines won't change how you feel about that. So not sure what's the loss for reading some cryptocurrency headlines.
I don't care for cryptocurrencies too much (I don't have any myself), but I do check out what's happening in the developer community a bit from time to time, as some of the computer science that is happening there is interesting even if you don't work on cryptocurrencies (or own any).
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Having worked directly for a Reuters subsidiary, I would never pretend they're not biased. All news is biased. The only question is whether or not it matches the bias of the reader at the time.
Same experience here with the German DPA. Bias starts at the selection stage. Every editor selecting what is important to them or what they think is important to the readers of the media that has a DPA feed subscription.
Then when doing a write up naturally include personal point of view and experience.
If subscribing to the online xml feed like many web portals and online news sites do, the order is defined by the order of topics in the top 10 media sites in Germany (as defined by the editors of the DPA).
So selection bias, personal biases and echo chamber effects. Even with every great intention these editors have (and knowing a few they really do) it just isn't possible to have neutral/unbiased news.
At no stage of the news business.
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#68Cryptocurrency is really something you don't need to hear anything about to be able to start your day.
And if I want crypto news, https://web3isgoinggreat.com is my goto
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#69Currently Washington post has two of the headlines twice (with the same time stamp)
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#70For something named just 5 I don't think I was expecting such a dense display of information haha