since i severed from social media in ~2014, i’ve switched to a more passive mode of internet use. specifically, i mostly read blogs now – a few i’ve found, i’ve already passed around to friends, but i’d like to create a linkable list for posterity.

blog	desc
slate star codex	popular blog written by a psychiatrist, part of the ‘rationalist’ blogger diaspora (samples 1, 2)
melting asphalt	another guy loosely in the rationalist scene, interesting to me for his ideas about hidden rules of human social behavior (1, 2)
ribbonfarm	venkatesh rao’s “unusual takes on familiar themes” – famously, the gervais principle
three pound brain	scifi author r scott bakker – philosophy and posthumanism (1, 2)
underground tradecraft	infosec, opsec, hacking, etc
outside in / urban future	nick land’s blogs
the bored jihadi	jihadi culture
bldgblog	alternative perspectives on architecture
meaningness / vividness	david chapman’s writings – philosophy, ethics, culture, buddhism without being gay (1, 2)
overcoming bias	robin hanson’s blog – author of the age of em, multifield expert at future of humanity institute @ oxford
marginal revolution	economics blog, high volume but high quality
southern nights	sc hickman’s blog, philosophy
west hunter	greg cochran, genetic anthropologist

those are my favorites, but there are dozens more. i use feedly to manage them – thank god for rss.