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a compilation of sources

News and Blogs

this page is under construction.

here's a collection of news sites, information sources, and blogs that I appreciate in one way or another.

as an aside, I think the best way to read news is often through an RSS feed! Almost all sites are able to be used in an RSS reader, which is sort of like having your own social media. I am currently using a self-hosted instance of FreshRSS. There is ZERO reason to be relying on google to amalgamate information for you. It's fun to curate your own information garden and add new things to it.

USA independent News

  • Pro Publica
    • hard-hitting American investigative journalism with a killer tipline
  • The Intercept
    • investigative journalism, american news
  • Mother Jones
    • a classic american left paper named after the IWW
  • CrimethInc
    • internationalist left writing from the ground
  • Unicorn Riot
    • underreported stories about protests, prisons, and resistance
  • Drop Site News
    • extremely driven independent journalists going after our evil overlords

Magazines

  • The Baffler
  • The Atlantic
  • n+1 magazine

    • BIG NEWS

    "The Economist is a magazine which speaks for british millionaires"
    --Abraham Lincoln

  • El Pais
  • New York Times
  • The Guardian

    • Los Angeles

    • LA Taco
      • originally a taco review website, now reporting on LA politics from a progressive perspective.
    • LA Public Press
      • los angeles political reporting
    • LAIst
      • LA events, happenings, and controversy.

    SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    • SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
      • Scientific American is the best publication out there. Get a subscription YESTERDAY.
    • Hackaday
      • one of the only good "maker" websites. For lefty engineers and people who believe in right to repair. against surEngineeringveillance and in favor of hacking.
    • Electronic Frontier Foundation
      • The EFF is an OG anti-surveillance, lefty technology organization. Even at the most insane tech companies, there's an EFF reader who is inevitably a troublemaker (for good)
    • 404 Media
      • political news about tech and surveillance
    • IEEE Spectrum
      • by engineers, for engineers
    • Intresting Engineering
      • clickbait, but interesting clickbait, about breakthrough engineering.
    • Construction Physics
      • sober analyses on civil engineering and manufacturing
    • Asianometry
      • extremely well-done podcasts and articles on technology history

    podcasts

    Using RSS for podcasts is WAAAY better than any BS that spotify throws your way. Try using antennapod which is free and open source. You can add RSS links from patreon, or from most podcast websites.