Daily reading list

2018-04-11

I try not to follow the daily news cycle, which I find more distracting than informative. I also shy away from social media, so I don’t have a constant stream of click bait news headlines competing for my attention.

To keep up to date with current affairs I try follow websites that I find interesting using their RSS feeds. I have set up a server running a self hosted instance of FreshRSS to aggregate the feeds so I can read them from my office, home or phone. The list might look long, but each source isn’t updated on a daily basis so I find it somewhat manageable.

My current list of daily reads includes a mix of general international news, technology news, African focused articles, anarchist news and perspectives, and stoic philosophy:

General news

• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics medium.
• Constitutionally Speaking: This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law. Written by Pierre de Vos
• Conversation: Africa
• Gates Notes: Updates from Bill Gates
• Deeplinks: EFF’s Deeplinks Blog: Noteworthy news from around the internet
• GroundUp: News, analysis and opinion
• Intercept: The Intercept is an award-winning news organization that covers national security, politics, civil liberties, the environment, international affairs, technology, criminal justice, the media, and more
• Media Lens: News analysis and media criticism
• TorrentFreak: Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News
• Popehat: A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure

Specialty news and commentary

• Anti-Fascist News: Taking on Fascism and Racism from the Ground Up
• BDS South Africa: Boycott – Divestment – Sanctions
• Carne Ross: I am a former British diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war. I now run the world’s first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat
• CrimethInc: CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective: Your ticket to a world free of charge
• Freedom News: Anarchist News and Views
• It’s Going Down: Anarchist News and Counter-Information
• libcom.org: News, archives and discussion on the class struggle. For human beings, not human resources
• Lucien van der Walt: Articles, talks, books and texts: red/black and anarchist/ syndicalist/ left history, analysis, theory, struggles
• The Youth Rights Blog: The online home of radical youth rights theory
• Unicorn Riot: Your Alternative Media
• Zabalaza: News from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, a specific anarchist political organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa

Stoic philosophy

• Apparent Stoic: Exploring modern parenting through modern stoicism
• Euthyphroria: Reflections on Ancient Literature and Practical Humanism
• How to Be a Stoic: An evolving guide to practical Stoicism for the 21st century
• Modern Stoisism
• Philosophy for life: The website of Jules Evans
• Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Ancient Stoic Philosophy and Modern Psychological Therapy
• The Immoderate Stoic: Thoughts of a practicing Stoic
• Traditional Stoicism: A timeless, philosophical way of life

News aggregation websites

• Hacker News