Blogs I Follow and Like

• Astral Codex Ten
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• i can tolerate anything except the outgroup
• universal love, said the cactus person
• meditations on moloch
• Siderea a blog explaining to you things you didn't already know you know.
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• The Asshole Filter
• Class (American)
• Kondo and the Bibliophibians, parts one and two
• Gwern #goals in terms of layout and design, but I'm aiming for something like 200% sillier
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• Nicotine
• Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
• It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World
• A History of Graphic Design a series of extremely well researched photoessays on art and design history, hosted on Blogspot.
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• what is graphic design?
• a history of matchboxes
• copyright, appropriation, plagairism and code of ethics
• Real Life Mag I read a lot of essays on the internet and this was the source of the very best ones - incredibly cerebral and analytic.
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• Magic Numbers (on how algorithms get deified)
• Fair Game (on data scraping)
• Still the Same (on how it's all been done before, in 1868.)
• Storming the Ivory Tower great takes about homestuck from someone whos ridiculously knowledgeable about art history
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• Who Killed the World? or, Immortan Joe Crossing the Alps
• Hermione Granger Versus the Methods of Rationality
• Art Beyond AI (the only good take on the entire internet about AI and art)
• To Watch all my Heroes Sell a Car on TV
• Gwern #goals in terms of layout and design, but I'm aiming for something like 200% sillier
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• Nicotine
• Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
• It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World
• this one person with half a dozen blogs, all good! bambamramfan (tumblr), rebel humanist, prequels redeemed (movie reviews), left conservative, exploring egregores
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• The SMG Gamergate Thread
• The Stageplay to Anime Spectrum
• Gender and Class
• Low Tech Magazine "This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline ☼" - slightly less cool than the description makes it seem bc there's a trad website mirror, but still, rly rly cool.
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• About this website
• The revenge of the hot water bottle
• how and why I stopped buying new laptops