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Interesting RSS Feeds

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1. Feed   elfeed

This is the feed I use for Elfeed, and the elfeed-org package allows me to publish them here in an automated fashion. This is why Emacs is so great!

1.1. News   news

These are the news articles that I subscribe to. Some of these are politics related but I mostly just want to inform myself about technology subjects.

1.1.1. Hacker News

Hacker News!

1.1.2. Propublica

Free news!

1.1.3. Quanta Magazine

Credibility: misreported on ER EPR correspondence

1.1.4. ACM TechNews :technology:computer-science:

Curated technology and computing news summaries for professionals.

1.2. Podcasts   podcast

1.2.1. Not Related   lukesmith

This is a podcast by Luke Smith that talks about anything that he wants to.

1.3. Forums   forum

1.3.1. LessWrong

The birthplace of bay area rationalism.

1.3.2. Nullring Discussion

My own mailing list feed.

1.4. Science Journals   journal

I like to get new information about recent studies related to technology.

1.4.1. Nature

Nature is a prestigious journal with a good bit of good content.

1.4.2. NASA   nasa

This is a list of NASA feeds:

1.4.2.1. NASA Tech
1.4.2.2. NASA Aeronautics
1.4.2.3. NASA Station
1.4.2.4. NASA Artemis

1.5. YouTube   youtube

These are YouTube channels that I find interesting enough to keep up with. Note that I keep up with a variety of thinkers that I may or may not disagree with, but they are nonetheless the most intellectual version of what their general cohort say:

1.5.1. IAI

Videos that include many public intellectuals. Some of them are dumb I guess however it's interesting enough to put on this feed.

1.5.2. Numberphile   math

Math-heavy popularization that is usually worth keeping around.

1.5.3. CoffeeZilla

Exposes scams.

1.5.4. VoidZilla

Extras from coffezilla channel.

1.5.5. CyberYamu

A channel about the daily experience of a schizotypal girl.

1.5.6. Lemonade Stand

Podcast channel that talks about modern day economics.

1.5.7. Lex Fridman

He has some good guests on sometimes.

1.5.8. Dwarkesh Patel

Makes podcasts whose guests are usually AI researchers of some kind.

1.5.9. Sabine Hossenfelder

Youtube channel about mostly physics related content (I do not endorse her views on string theory).

1.5.10. PBS Space Time

PBS space time is a channel that discusses various (sometimes cutting edge) topics in Physics in an expert manner. I find that they are highly accurate, and the host is highly educated in Physics.

1.5.11. ScienceClic

ScienceClic is another YouTube channel that does an especially good job at covering cutting edge ideas in physics.

1.5.12. UnHerd   podcast

UnHerd is one of the best, most interesting political podcasts, period, in my opinion. Though, do note that learning about politics is kind of pointless.

1.5.13. Huey Li

He's a comedian and kind of a China hater.

1.5.14. Destiny

He debates people on various issues.

1.5.15. 3blue1brown

Makes really good educational videos. I hope to make videos like this one day.

1.5.16. Luke Smith

Makes good videos about Linux and life stuff.

1.5.17. Bridges   podcast

This podcast is run by Destiny, and it features good guests.

1.5.18. Atrioc

Features some good marketing and economics content. Big A is his secondary channel.

1.5.19. Big A

Marketing Monday features good economics content.

1.5.20. Quanta Magazine

See above.

1.5.21. Ceadda of Mercia

Videos about NRx.

1.5.22. Mental Outlaw

Linux videos.

1.5.23. Unlearning Economics

Videos about economics from a Marxist perspective.

1.5.24. Veritasium

Makes good educational videos.

1.6. ActivityPub   activitypub

1.6.1. Mastodon   mastodon

1.6.1.1. Terence Tao (Mastodon)   tao math mastodon

His Mastodon features really great public outreach content.

1.6.1.2. Peter Woit   math mastodon

Mathematician and physicist.

1.6.2. Blogs   blog

Here are some interesting blogs, many of which are from substack.

1.6.2.1. Interfluidity

A blog focused on economics but from an informed point of view.

1.6.2.2. Ollama

For new updates to new LLM models that I can pull with ollama.

1.6.2.3. Terence Tao   tao math

I like math.

1.6.2.4. Luke Smith   lukesmith

Luke Smith is quite the interesting person.

1.6.2.5. Works in Progress Newsletter   progress technology economics

Long-form writing on progress, technology, industrial policy, and history.

1.6.2.6. Slow Boring   policy politics economics urbanism

Pragmatic policy writing with a decent amount of housing, institutions, and state capacity.

1.6.2.7. Astral Codex Ten   rationalism essay science

Long-form essays on science, philosophy, psychiatry, culture, and rationalist topics.

1.6.2.8. Asterisk Magazine   science technology economics magazine

Progress-oriented magazine covering science, technology, economics, and culture.

1.6.2.9. The Roots of Progress   progress history technology

Jason Crawford on the history of technology and the philosophy of progress.

1.6.2.10. The Grumpy Economist   economics markets

John Cochrane on macroeconomics, markets, policy, and economic theory.

1.6.2.11. Marginal Revolution   economics policy links

Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok on economics, policy, books, and assorted links.

1.6.2.12. The Scholar's Stage   history geopolitics strategy

Tanner Greer on history, geopolitics, statecraft, and civilizational analysis.

1.6.2.13. Shtetl-Optimized   math physics quantum compsci

Scott Aaronson on quantum computing, theoretical CS, mathematics, and science.

1.6.2.14. Substack   substack

These are a list of all the substack blogs that exist.

  1. High Capacity

    Writing about China's economics.

  2. Construction Physics

    More writings about economics.

  3. Gray Mirror

    Curtis Yarvin is quite the interesting person.

  4. Richard Hanania

    Richard is a political commentator.

  5. Paul Krugman

    He makes good economics blogs as he used to be a professional economist.

  6. Overcoming Bias

    Makes the case for the glorious reign of Futarchy!! (Not what you think it is).

  7. Bryan Caplan

    Anarcho Capitalist person.