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Web Comics

  XKCD
  Famous webcomic amongst science types. Literally every science degree person I know loves it.

  Poorly Drawn Lines
  A webcomic with humor and wit.

  Saturday Morning Breakfast
  A webcomic with a mix of science, and humor.

  The Oatmeal
  One of the most famous webcomics of all time. He also made exploding kittens and unstable unicorns if you are into board games.

Tech News

  Hackaday
  They track the random cool DIY and FOSS projects people make and 3D print

  Wired Magazine - Business
  Business-related articles from Wired Magazine. **Note**: You can subscribe to wired's all articles feed, but it is too full of affiliate marketting slop so I prefer to select a couple individual feeds.

  Wired Magazine - AI
  AI-related articles from Wired Magazine. **Note**: You can subscribe to wired's all articles feed, but it is too full of affiliate marketting slop so I prefer to select a couple individual feeds.

  Wired Magazine - Backchannel
  Longform articles from Wired Magazine. **Note**: You can subscribe to wired's all articles feed, but it is too full of affiliate marketting slop so I prefer to select a couple individual feeds.

  404 Media
  Random software news, lotsa cybersec and hacker kinda stuff

Personal Blogs

  Caffeine And Lasers
  My longer posts about technology, science, and culture.

  Pluralistic
  Cory Doctorow's Blog. He writes an essay just about every day about big tech / politics

  Dynomight
  A "Rationalist" web blog. Lots of interesting science, posts about society and knowledge.

  Jodie Ettenburg
  Monthly Newsletter with collections of links to cool random spots on the web. E.g. [My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword.](https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/world-war-ii-japanese-sword/)

  Starbreaker
  Friend of the site, he posts longform rants about tech, politics, and the state of the web.

  Ava's Blog
  She mostly blogs about her personal life, but she is a nice writer and has interesting opinions sometimes.

  CheapSkates Guide
  Talks about computers and the internet, and computing as cheaply as possible.

  ShellSharks
  Bigly into the 'IndieWeb' like me. Posts about CyberSec, technology and blogging. Super Groovy website as well. Look around his site not just the feed IMHO. He has a whole bunch of different feeds, but that one captures everything (I think)

  Citation Needed
  Molly White's Blog. She mostly writes longform about Crypto Grifts, but also occasionally about broader important internet things. She is a relatively important Wikipedia Contributor.

Australian News

  The Daily Aus
  Just a 5 minute read newsletter. Ad supported summary of what the current news is.

  ABC News
  Australia's National Broadcaster.

  Michael West Media
  Independent Journos. Great investigational journalism into Australian politics.

  Independent Australia
  Better political coverage than any mainstream journos. Also interesting niche topics covered by independent journos.

Aus Satire News

  The Betoota Advocate
  Australia's Oldest And Favourite Newspaper

  The Shovel
  News you can believe in

  The Chaser
  Striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence

Food And Drinks

  Robert McKeon
  Robert is a data scientist (at Apple last I checked?) who does science on coffee. These days mostly on roasting, but his backlog is filled with actionable info on grind, dose and etraction.

  Saint John's Wort
  A beer blogger, who writes about the cultural aspects of beer.

  Ben Viver
  Finally, a food blogger on this list. Writes about food culture, rather than recipies or restaurant reviews.

AI News

  Simon Wilson's Weblog
  He is a researcher at Mozilla and pretty smart

  ByCloudAI
  He is a youtuber, who also runs a weekly newsletter, the newsletter recaps 3 new papers on AI research every week.

  Nofill
  Another guy's blog on AI shit

  Vizuara
  He writes about the very specifics and mathematics of LLMs/Diffusion Models

  One Useful Thing
  Insights and analysis on AI and its applications

  DB Reunig
  Blog on AI and related topics