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Comment by cosmicgadget

3 hours ago

Pleasantly surprised? I would think that these feeds would consist of product and company announcements and this would be the expected/appropriate content. Did you find something less sterile?

To convince you I would really need to rebuild this thing and show it side by side with blogs and news outlets.

To give one example, at the time I gathered f500 feeds my other feed sets (tens of thousands) suffered horribly from echo chamber effect. I had endless headlines announcing that David Bowie died. Something like half of it. I don't find that a particularly interesting topic. I have my own memories of his work and have little need for more. Perhaps you would like to read 20 of those? Surely not thousands? It isn't that it isn't a noteworthy event but it drowns out everything else.

Meanwhile Walmart is talking about donating returned Lego to charities.

Exon is talking about a giant ammonia deal to make carbon neutral hydrogen

and GM talks about their next generation software platform to help bring long term continuous innovation to customers through over-the-air updates.

They apparently have tons of diagnostic data and are looking to make it more practical complete with remote tuning for old clunkers.

This to me is quite a lot more interesting than say cbnc talking about war with iran, if bitcoin will survive and that Tesla stock is down???? I really needed more articles about those topics? I thought I already got a million of those. No way in hell I will open those links.