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Yoni Appelbaum

Yoni Appelbaum

@YAppelbaum

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#28 0.003051 The Atlantic
#621 0.000223 The Dispatch
#1599 0.000080 Foreign Policy
#1659 0.000076 New Yorker
#1958 0.000057 Ars Technica
#2082 0.000065 Recode
#2104 0.000076 The New York Times
#2583 0.000050 The Intercept
#3004 0.000005 Reuters
#3882 0.000013 Washington Post
#4056 0.000005 Palladium Magazine
#4172 0.000001 OANN
#4191 0.000001 Newsmax
#4562 0.000001 The Information
#4695 0.000026 Bloomberg Opinion
#5066 0.000001 Stat News
#5360 0.000001 The Verge
#5963 0.000001 The Economist
#6501 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#6555 0.000001 CNBC
#7257 0.000001 Wired
#7790 0.000001 Financial Times
#8168 0.000004 The New York Post
#8230 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8575 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8862 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#9706 0.000001 VICE

Think Tanks

#236 0.000444 Council on Foreign Relations
#1599 0.000080 Niskanen Center
#1774 0.000084 Brookings
#2176 0.000068 American Enterprise Institute
#2176 0.000068 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2540 0.000049 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#3001 0.000006 Berggruen Institute
#3882 0.000022 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4012 0.000022 Hoover Institution
#4638 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4696 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4881 0.000001 Urban Institute
#5097 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5343 0.000015 Mercatus Center
#5490 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5685 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6446 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7524 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7799 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#369 0.000296 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#441 0.000363 Social Epistemology
#678 0.000269 Heterodox Academy
#862 0.000144 Persuasion Community
#1331 0.000097 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1407 0.000073 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1525 0.000055 Harper's Open Letter
#1627 0.000080 Moderate Conservatism
#2445 0.000037 Rationality
#3810 0.000026 Ecomodernists
#4041 0.000016 Progress Studies
#4235 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4281 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4378 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4416 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4456 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4462 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4474 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4529 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4697 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4758 0.000001 350.org
#4934 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5195 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5639 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5812 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6114 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6289 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6756 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6770 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7403 0.000001 EFF
#8479 0.000001 Anarachists

Science

#520 0.000301 Epidemiology Journalism
#4781 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5191 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6780 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#159 0.000274 Baseline
#338 0.000142 Reality-Based Community
#3716 0.000036 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#4254 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4290 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4701 0.000001 Accel
#4856 0.000001 Bessemer
#5073 0.000001 Sequioa
#5172 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5388 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5389 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5492 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5613 0.000002 Khosla Ventures
#5755 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5936 0.000001 Homebrew
#6821 0.000001 Village Global
#7101 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#4278 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4371 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4443 0.000001 Polkadot
#4447 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5372 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5391 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5432 0.000001 Cosmos
#6362 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6622 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8434 0.000001 Ethereum
#8458 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#9034 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Software Engineering

#4335 0.000001 Zig
#4371 0.000001 Rust

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