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What are your favorite RSS feeds?
I particularly enjoy Voice of America for political news, Hacker News for tech news, and a Craig's list filter for particular cars in my area (since I might be getting one soon).
I particularly enjoy Voice of America for political news, Hacker News for tech news, and a Craig's list filter for particular cars in my area (since I might be getting one soon).
This is probably not what most would expect for an answer to this question, but the vast majority of my favorite RSS feeds are actually from YouTube. Despite all the various controversies and google's screw-ups running it over the years, I think YouTube is still one of the absolute best content sources on the net. And even though the "bell" notification system on the site is basically completely useless, thankfully every YouTube channel has an automatically included/created RSS feed... so you can just ignore YouTube's built-in systems entirely and use whatever RSS reader you prefer to keep tabs on all the newly released content by your favorite channels. I do this using Thunderbird, since it has incredibly powerful custom sorting and filtering rules that you can set up for managing and organizing all your various RSS feeds.
As for which of those feeds are my "favorites"? That honestly varies tremendously month to month, as my interest in certain subjects waxes/wanes, and I change up my feed filters to reflect that. However some of the channels which I have been subscribed to for many years and have never really stopped watching for any significant lengths of time are:
Aquachigger (USA based Metal Detectorist & Caver)
Ashens (OG Unboxer)
Bon Appétit (Cooking related, Love all their stuff!)
Computerphile (Compsci made understandable and interesting)
Deep Digger Dan + Travel Trolls TV (UK based Metal Detectorist, Caravaners & Travel Vloggers)
Eater (Cooking related, I only watch Prime Time)
emmymadeinjapan (Food, Recipe and Kitchen Gadget reviewer)
First We Feast (Food related, I only watch Hot Ones & The Burger Show)
Forgotten Weapons (Small Arms and Military History videos)
Game Grumps (OG videogame Let's Play'ers)
Good Mythical Morning (OG Internet Variety Show)
Historia Civilis (Roman Civil, Political and Military History mini-documentaries)
InRangeTV (Firearms related content, and they also run practical shooting competitions)
Invicta (similar to Historia Civilis these days, but not limited to Roman history)
KEXP Radio (Music related, Love all their stuff!)
Kings and Generals (Ditto to Invicta)
LEMMiNO (thoroughly researched, rational explorations of Conspiracy & Unsolved Mystery stories).
Modern History TV (Medieval History videos)
Nardwuar (The Human Serviette) (Canadian Icon, music industry interviewer, madman, genius)
NileRed (Chemistry and Science videos)
NPR Music (Music related, Love all their stuff!)
Numberphile (Maths made understandable and interesting)
NurdRage (High level Chemistry made understandable)
Objectivity (Science History & Archival stuff made interesting)
Periodic Videos (Chemistry made understandable and interesting)
Primitive Technology (builds shelters, makes pottery/tools/etc in the wild using "primitive" techniques)
RedLetterMedia (Movie related, <3 all their content, especially Best of the Worst)
SmarterEveryDay (Does a bit of everything, but mostly science/engineering/tech related)
Steve1989MREInfo (the OG King of Military Ration reviews, surprisingly captivating)
The Slow Mo Guys (Super high-speed slow-mo videos... pretty silly content, but fun)
Tom Scott (Does a bit of everything)
Townsends (18th Century Cooking and Living History videos)
p.s. If you want to add a YouTube channel to your RSS reader, you simply need to copy/paste the channel URL to it, which has a built in feed, or you can export your entire subscribed channel list all at once by clicking "Export to RSS readers" at the bottom of the Subscription Manager page and importing that OPML file into your RSS reader.
Hah, I haven't even played Factorio in ages and I still keep up with their blog posts. They do a great job of breaking down the interesting technical challenges of the game and how they arrived at their solutions. It doesn't hurt that the games internals are interesting in many of the same ways that the game itself is interesting.
I'm subscribed to way too many but here are a few:
I assume most people have seen Slate Star Codex, but if not then you might start with his Top Posts. Scott Alexander is a psychiatrist with close ties to the rationality / effective altruism crowd. He writes in-depth but highly-opinionated articles about various topics in medicine, science, and history.
Matt Levine writes a funny column about financial absurdities. It's often rather insider stuff but I find it educational since I'm not in that industry. The full text of his column is available by email. (It's not RSS but I can still forward it to NewsBlur.)
Hackaday's blog is very high-traffic and random but I like to skim it for interesting tech tips now that I'm doing an electronics project.
For excellent science writing (often about animals) l like Ed Yong's column at the Atlantic.
Marginal Revolution is written by two economics professors and has a lot of non-economics links too. Tyler Cowen also does interesting interviews. (I don't watch video interviews but I read the transcripts.) Note that they are conservative but still quite broad-minded.
The Morning Paper summarizes one interesting computer science paper a day during the school year. I mostly skim but it seems like it's a good way to learn a little about newish CS research.
Here's a previous discussion about this with some great feeds in it to get started.
Filfre and its new companion the Analogue Antiquarian always have good content. Their author also regularly collects the blog posts into ebooks, which is great (he has just done so with the Piramid of Giza-related blog posts, which I recommend!)
I gave it a dap but it didn’t work on twitter feed
The way it separates feed based on frequency is kinda odd as well
The YouTube feed is not chronologically ordered