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Steven M. Bellovin

Steven M. Bellovin

@SteveBellovin

cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Author of "Thinking Security" informit.com/store/thinking…. Dinosaur photographer.

10300 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#60 0.001296 EFF
#387 0.000401 Social Epistemology
#608 0.000200 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1250 0.000091 Rationality
#1453 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1500 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1614 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1641 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1684 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1725 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1737 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1766 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1989 0.000002 350.org
#2177 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2628 0.000026 Degrowth
#2854 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3394 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3407 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3419 0.000025 Moderate Conservatism
#3906 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4144 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4238 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4561 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4572 0.000012 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4994 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5021 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5150 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5287 0.000002 Anarachists
#6980 0.000007 Harper's Open Letter
#7094 0.000005 The Long Now Foundation
#8293 0.000001 Progress Studies
#8548 0.000005 Ecomodernists

Crypto

#132 0.001284 Crypto Journalists
#526 0.000346 Public Goods Funding
#750 0.000188 Ethereum
#1229 0.000075 Crypto Infrastructure
#1499 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1615 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1679 0.000002 Polkadot
#2518 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2753 0.000006 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3495 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3623 0.000001 Cosmos
#6310 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6909 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8751 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#150 0.000924 Epidemiology Journalism
#2036 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2432 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3533 0.000024 Biotech
#4202 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

#106 0.000895 The Atlantic
#168 0.000864 The New York Times
#452 0.000268 Ars Technica
#1631 0.000077 Foreign Policy
#1781 0.000013 Techcrunch
#1843 0.000002 The Information
#2215 0.000001 OANN
#2217 0.000001 Newsmax
#2374 0.000002 Stat News
#2496 0.000049 The Dispatch
#2711 0.000002 The Verge
#3328 0.000002 The Economist
#3929 0.000002 CNBC
#4011 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4116 0.000003 Reuters
#4162 0.000023 Wall Street Journal
#4854 0.000002 Wired
#5024 0.000001 The Intercept
#5212 0.000002 Financial Times
#5829 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6116 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6448 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7330 0.000002 VICE
#9347 0.000001 Recode

Think Tanks

#125 0.000777 Brookings
#803 0.000225 Earth Institute
#1631 0.000077 Niskanen Center
#1909 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1965 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2160 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2389 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2821 0.000043 Council on Foreign Relations
#2840 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3230 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3864 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4563 0.000017 Hoover Institution
#4729 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5506 0.000021 American Enterprise Institute
#5506 0.000021 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5990 0.000012 Mercatus Center
#6537 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8027 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8216 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8552 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#3734 0.000036 Think Tanks
#5775 0.000029 Baseline

Venture Capital

#1481 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1540 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1977 0.000002 Accel
#2371 0.000002 Sequioa
#2860 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2938 0.000001 Bessemer
#3334 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3478 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3557 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3853 0.000012 Khosla Ventures
#3942 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4224 0.000001 Homebrew
#5107 0.000001 Village Global
#5289 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Software Engineering

#1620 0.000002 Rust
#2380 0.000001 Zig

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