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Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by ujki1 »

nlitened wrote: post #107
tsidewinder wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same guy (Scott Siskin) wrote slatestarcodex.com, which covers over a hundred writeups of a similar quality, going back to 2013. Lots of great stuff. I recommend checkimg the top posts on that blog, its the best content on the internet imo. I've read almost all of it. He changed to Astralcodexten after the New York Times threatened to Doxx him (for "policy" reasons), which basically upended his entire life, since he…

I didn't know his name until you wrote it here (I specifically abstained from looking it up), so to me you're the part of that NYT doxxing crowd who "upended his entire life".

While he is still uses the pseudonym Scott Alexander, he has told his real name in Astral Codex Ten so I don't believe it's supposed to be a secret anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by marsa »

waingake wrote: post #72

The New Yorker is great https://www.newyorker.com . Amazing writing, so much so that I can be pulled into articles that I wouldn't expect to be interested in. I had a Kindle subscription, but liked it so much I forked out for a print subscription. I find it a real struggle reading long form articles digitally.

re. digital: the last time i read a newyorker article it consumed 900+ MB of my mobile data plan and i've been avoiding it like the plague ever since.

which is a shame because the writing is generally good as you note.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by 0x008 »

The New York Times writes great articles and usually you get a discount so it only costs 1 or 2$ per week which I find really fair pricing.

Also popular substack Newsletters. It totally depends though, some are just hot air even in the paid versions and others really have good content also for free subscribers.

If there is more need for content I will go through my list of 100+ blogs and just grab some random old article about compiling gtk on gentoo or similar… haha

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by gyulai »

science4sail wrote: post #24
lvs wrote: post #14

Have you heard of books?

Many dead-tree-book libraries also have ebook lending programs. If that's not an option, then there's also Project Gutenberg[0] and the Internet Archive's Open Library [1]. [0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ [1] https://openlibrary.org/

Project Gutenberg lost favour with me when they basically said "U.S. Copyright is the only copyright law that matters on the internet, so screw you Germany" and geoblocked the entire country. This must have felt like such a slap in the face to Germans who ever donated time or money to project Gutenberg. Personally, I had never done that, so I had the luxury of being able to just turn away in bewilderment. I do give money to archive.org though, and sincerely hope they will never pull crap like that.

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Post by CodeGlitch »

Podcasts.

TRIGGERnometry: https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss

Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:23460834...

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693

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Post by veidelis »

tambeb wrote: post #76
hersko wrote: post #20

The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.

I really only listen to Rogan for two types of guests: comedians I like and physicists. The episodes for the latter are always fantastic. Brian Cox, Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, Neil deGrasse Tyson, plus a couple more. He's even had Roger Penrose on.

Roger Penrose is a legend.

Some of the episodes of JRE with Bill Burr I've watched more than once.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by stereoradonc »

You can join here for the best reads that I curate manually for the long-form: https://t.me/+pwdYcfBiV1I3Njll

This is on Telegram and will require admin approval. I had to keep this as a private channel. I read a lot; if I find (and come across) good book recommendations, I post them too (including the books). You can save content locally, but the channel is restricted to disallow forwarding.

This is intentional, because once I plan for comments and group discussions, I need something more substantial than fluff.

Re: Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?

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Post by dotancohen »

waingake wrote: post #72

The New Yorker is great https://www.newyorker.com . Amazing writing, so much so that I can be pulled into articles that I wouldn't expect to be interested in. I had a Kindle subscription, but liked it so much I forked out for a print subscription. I find it a real struggle reading long form articles digitally.

The New Yorker certainly is entertaining to read, but their articles are notoriously slanted. Even non-controversial subjects are presented from a polarized standpoint. Its as if the whole purpose of the articles is to misinform the reader just enough to get into an argument with someone on the topic.
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