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David Simon

David Simon

@AoDespair

davidsimon.com

Author, journalist, and TV writer/producer. Angriest Man in Television is faint praise indeed.

316041 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#299 0.000387 EFF
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#3925 0.000004 Anarachists
#4370 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4416 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4513 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4551 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4591 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4596 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4607 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4661 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4807 0.000012 Harper's Open Letter
#4893 0.000001 350.org
#5067 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5530 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#5646 0.000010 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6009 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6513 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#6557 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6576 0.000007 Persuasion Community
#6643 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6750 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#6933 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7078 0.000000 Works in Progress
#7549 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#7584 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7987 0.000006 Ecomodernists
#9117 0.000001 Rationality
#9839 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism

Think Tanks

#1564 0.000084 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3985 0.000005 Adam Smith Institute
#4771 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4830 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4910 0.000024 Brookings
#5015 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5231 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5622 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5969 0.000009 Hoover Institution
#6574 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6730 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7271 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8323 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9022 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9107 0.000008 American Enterprise Institute
#9107 0.000008 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9953 0.000001 Niskanen Center

Journalism

#1188 0.000063 The Daily Beast
#1938 0.000069 The Atlantic
#4003 0.000014 The Intercept
#4237 0.000020 The Dispatch
#4687 0.000010 Washington Post
#4693 0.000001 The Information
#5041 0.000000 OANN
#5058 0.000000 Newsmax
#5198 0.000001 Stat News
#5491 0.000001 The Verge
#5588 0.000017 New Yorker
#6096 0.000001 The Economist
#6683 0.000001 CNBC
#6947 0.000002 Reuters
#7384 0.000001 Wired
#7917 0.000001 Financial Times
#8351 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8463 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#8978 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9826 0.000001 VICE
#9953 0.000001 Foreign Policy

Venture Capital

#2123 0.000047 Benchmark Capital
#3072 0.000013 Village Global
#4146 0.000026 A16Z
#4388 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4425 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4835 0.000001 Accel
#5201 0.000001 Sequioa
#5620 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5699 0.000000 Bessemer
#5978 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6197 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6243 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6708 0.000000 Homebrew
#7873 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#8582 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

system

#9794 0.000013 Baseline

Crypto

#4413 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4505 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4578 0.000001 Polkadot
#5303 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6200 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6208 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6247 0.000000 Cosmos
#7181 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7469 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9280 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9343 0.000000 Ethereum
#9823 0.000000 Crypto Investing

Science

#4915 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5325 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6908 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#8110 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#4501 0.000001 Rust
#5200 0.000000 Zig

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