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Mike Masnick

Mike Masnick

@mmasnick

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#29 0.002955 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#36 0.001887 EFF
#82 0.001342 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#340 0.000450 Social Epistemology
#348 0.000408 Moderate Conservatism
#522 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#571 0.000003 Fair Vote
#720 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#758 0.000003 Existential Risks
#770 0.000158 Rationality
#776 0.000160 The Long Now Foundation
#816 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#837 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#864 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#940 0.000166 Progress Studies
#1081 0.000003 350.org
#1269 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2131 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2269 0.000017 Anarachists
#2421 0.000036 Works in Progress
#2495 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2680 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2932 0.000043 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3168 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3444 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3478 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3849 0.000019 Persuasion Community
#4306 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4324 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4938 0.000012 Harper's Open Letter
#5422 0.000011 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#7401 0.000002 Degrowth
#9291 0.000003 Ecomodernists

Journalism

#109 0.000824 Ars Technica
#116 0.001643 The Verge
#454 0.000333 Foreign Policy
#677 0.000205 The Dispatch
#839 0.000219 Financial Times
#950 0.000003 The Information
#962 0.000193 The New York Times
#1109 0.000044 Techcrunch
#1208 0.000112 The Atlantic
#1390 0.000002 Newsmax
#1398 0.000002 OANN
#1492 0.000003 Stat News
#1548 0.000014 Reuters
#1980 0.000052 BuzzFeed
#2443 0.000003 The Economist
#2475 0.000052 Recode
#2857 0.000015 Palladium Magazine
#3050 0.000003 CNBC
#3219 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3423 0.000016 Washington Post
#4113 0.000003 Wired
#4450 0.000002 The Intercept
#4872 0.000025 Bloomberg Opinion
#5607 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6192 0.000007 The New York Post
#6531 0.000003 VICE
#7876 0.000011 New Yorker
#8721 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#385 0.000430 Earth Institute
#454 0.000333 Niskanen Center
#803 0.000070 Cato Institute
#855 0.000189 Mercatus Center
#1004 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1062 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1259 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1369 0.000108 Brookings
#1477 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1839 0.000084 American Enterprise Institute
#1839 0.000084 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2169 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3004 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3201 0.000038 Council on Foreign Relations
#3341 0.000029 Hoover Institution
#3625 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#3960 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4611 0.000005 Eurasia Group
#5326 0.000004 Hudson Institute
#5900 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7625 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Venture Capital

#479 0.000310 A16Z
#557 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#635 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1086 0.000003 Accel
#1435 0.000135 Homebrew
#1500 0.000003 Sequioa
#2020 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2166 0.000002 Bessemer
#2182 0.000038 Village Global
#2227 0.000048 Khosla Ventures
#2621 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2695 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2828 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3229 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3240 0.000027 Initialized Capital

system

#842 0.000259 Think Tanks
#4370 0.000068 Baseline
#8477 0.000050 Reality-Based Community

Science

#677 0.000178 Biotech
#1134 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1481 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3309 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4946 0.000014 EconTwitter
#5008 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#569 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#717 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#760 0.000003 Polkadot
#845 0.000159 Crypto Journalists
#936 0.000144 Crypto VC
#1219 0.000067 Decentralized Web
#1730 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2727 0.000017 Crypto Investing
#2730 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2901 0.000002 Cosmos
#3408 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3593 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4356 0.000002 Ethereum
#7760 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8190 0.000002 Crypto Infrastructure

Informal Community

#4254 0.000029 Founders

Software Engineering

#701 0.000003 Rust
#1559 0.000002 Zig

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