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bag531··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
The Intercept - absolutely.

Current Affairs is certainly more editorial.

Jacobin is somewhere in between.

bag531··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
Reminds me of Stack Overflow.
bag531··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
My list for mostly political and non-corporate media.

https://theintercept.com/

https://jacobinmag.com/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/

bag531··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
Krystal Ball from The Hill is a gem.
bag531··on Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
You watch/read too much Jordan Peterson. You can care about issues and try to make the world a better place, while also taking care of yourself.

Telling people not to care about politics is itself a political endorsement of the status quo.

bag531··on Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits
On the contrary, yours is extremely conservative/reactionary, and even moreso outside the mainstream.
bag531··on Engineer says Google fired her for notifying co-workers of right to organize
I don't know why anyone would choose to work at Google anymore.
bag531··on What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?
Unionized, with most bargaining power in the hands of the developer.
bag531··on Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
I wonder how the comments would look if this were about China and Hong Kong instead of Spain and Catalonia.
bag531··on India bans e-cigarettes, citing youth health concerns
Are cigarettes banned in India?
bag531··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
Reform or Revolution? by Rosa Luxembourg.
bag531··on The video game industry can't go on like this
The game industry needs to unionize.
bag531··on The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
This is really useful. Matrix calculus was one of the hardest parts of my machine learning course at university simply because it had never been covered by any of the many math classes I'd taken.