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Here is a page of not-so-carefully curated links. They're just random sites that I find during my internet travels. I stash them here fore safekeeping.

Politics

Pure ideology. (sniff)

Crackpottery

Comics With Problems - strange historical comics

German Propaganda Archive - Nazi and East German propaganda translated into English


Groups

Atlanta Community Press Collective - writers' collective for "radical education and empowerment of autonomous communities" in Atlanta, Georgia

Black Women Radicals - collective for "uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people's radical political activism"

Center for a Stateless Society - "left market anarchist think tank and media center"

Hampton Institute - proletarian socialist think tank

Othering & Belonging Institute - interdisciplinary team at University of California, Berkeley researching targeted universalist strategies

The Platypus Affiliated Society - "reading groups, public fora, research, and journalism" for the Left

Sick of It! - disabled activists for prison abolition


Libraries

The Anarchist Library - free library of anarchist and related texts

Marxists Internet Archive - transcribed and translated Marxist and related texts


Periodicals

The Baffler - left-wing political criticism

Ceasefire - magazine of "radical ideas"

Hypocrite Reader - "biannual leftist magazine of useful, unexpected writing"

Ill Will - political journal

International Socialist Review - archived socialist journal

libcom.org - libertarian communist website posting activist tools, news, and readings

Le Monde diplomatique - independent French news journal

The New Inquiry - magazine on lots of social isses

Notes From Below - socialist publication dedicated to workers' inquiry

Socialist Studies - journal on "social, economic, and/or political injustice, and practices of struggle, transformation, and liberation"

Unavoidable Disaster - periodically updated chaotic pastiche of information on current events

YES! Magazine - nonprofit "solutions journalism"

Technology

About things that do things for us.


How to not waste your life on the internet

Center for Humane Technology - movement to reduce negative influence of pervasive tech on our lives

NoSurf - resources compiled from r/nosurf (yes, reddit)


Learn to code

Dr. Chuck Online - lessons on Django, Python, and more

W3 Schools - HTML reference


Privacy

Email

10 Minute Mail - free, anonymous, and temporary email service

Forward Email - free tool for creating email aliases

Have I Been Pwned - check if your email or phone number have been compromised in a data breach

Infosec

OSINT - open source doxxing intelligence tools

Software

LibreWolf - privacy-oriented custom version of Firefox

Prism Break - opt out of global data surveillance programs

switching.software - "ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software


Science and technology studies

Critical tech

Awesome Critical Tech Reading List - "opinionated reading list for the critical programmer"

Tech Won't Save Us - podcast for critical technology studies

History

textfiles.com - BBS archive and history

World

Cultural, historical, and practical knowledge from around the globe.


General

Atlas Obscura - "definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders"


Africa

Studia Orientalia Electronica - "original research articles in all fields of Asian and African studies"


Asia

Studia Orientalia Electronica - "original research articles in all fields of Asian and African studies"

China

闯 Chuǎng - blog and journal on modern Chinese society

Critical China Scholars - balanced scholarly viewpoints on China and its politics

Reading the China Dream - translated writings by "establishment" Chinese intellectuals

Sounding Islam in China - multi-sited ethnographic study on the religious expression of Chinese Muslims


Europe

Italy

Dual U.S. Italian Citizenship - resources for Americans seeking Italian citizenship by birthright or marriage


Middle East

Ancient Near East

ETANA - open access journals on the ancient Near East

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies - exactly what it sounds like

Iran

Bibliographica Iranica - predominantly bibliographic blog for Iranian studies

You may be interested to know that I also have a list of favorite articles. Here are some of them.

Against "Effective Altruism" - Alice Crary, Radical Philosophy (Summer 2021)

The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You - Rebecca Hersher, NPR (April 21, 2016)

Five Geek Social Falacies - Michael Suileabhain-Wilson, Plausibly Deniable (December 2, 2003)

Rock Against Anything: How Metal Became So Fucking Reactionary And What To Do About It - R.M. Temin, Toilet ov Hell (March 27, 2018)

What the "grievance studies" hoax actually reveals - Daniel Engber, Slate (October 5, 2018)