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Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by tvaughan »

https://www.emptywheel.net/, though just the posts written by Marcy Wheeler, a.k.a. emptywheel, herself.

> Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.

> Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by wutbrodo »

icebraining wrote: post #30
IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ken White now often writes at The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ken-white/ . It's much the same, only now he gets paid and far wider circulation. If you read only one of hist articles, make it https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two...

Yeah, but even there, he hasn't posted since August :( nowadays I think the only regular public activity is his participation in the podcast All the President's Lawyers - besides @Popehat on Twitter, of course.

Probably a matter of personal preference, but if you're not a fan of low-quality, intellectually dishonest shitposting in your feed, I'd avoid @Popehat on Twitter. I enjoy his columns and blog posts, but Twitter does weird things to some people's brains.

OTOH, my tolerance for that stuff is extremely low, so the SNR may suit someone else.

Re: Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

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Post by johnmorrison »

btrettel wrote: post #23
johnmorrison wrote: post #15

These are my two favorite blogs of Q4`19: Pat Collison [1] (Co-founder, CEO Stripe) doesn't blog often, but is one of the most interesting and insightful people I have ever read I don't know much about Alexey Guzey [2] yet, but he also has some very good posts (he writes more often and more long form, and is more similar to Gwern and SSC, in part because I think those two blogs have influenced him heavily) [1] https:…

Thanks, I'm not familiar with Alexey Guzey, but just scanning the list of pages I see quite a bit I'd find interesting or challenging.

He's very good, I recommend the following:

Follow up: https://guzey.com/follow-up/

What to do with your life: https://guzey.com/personal/what-should-you-do-with-your-life...

How to make friends online: https://guzey.com/how-to-make-friends-over-the-internet/

You should start a blog: https://guzey.com/personal/why-have-a-blog/

(In fact, the latter has convinced me to begin posting more of my writing publicly on my own blog)

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