Prediction Markets

• Metaculus
• Polymarket – the most promising crypto-based prediction market (others include: Augur; Catnip.Exchange; Gnosis).
• PredictIt
• Hypermind
• Other prediction sites: Good Judgment Project; PredictBook. I also maintain a page of my own predictions.

Politics Data

• Main US Еlections sites:
  • 270 to Win – construct your own maps of Presidential elections.
  • 538 (@NateSilver538) – main US elections/data site.
  • Cook Political Report – has many useful charts, e.g. 2020 swingometer
  • Electing Betting Odds – tallies probabilities across predictions markets.
• Elections Databases:
  • Electoral Geography 2.0 – exhaustive database of historical election results across the world maintained by blogger Alexander Kireev.
  • French Ministry of the Interior – past French elections.
  • Voteview (legacy) – on US electoral history
  • Women in Parliament
• Democracy Rankings:
  • Freedom House – rankings on “Freedom in the World” (take it for what it’s worth).
  • Polity IV/Systemic-Peace – another democracy ranking, largely disused
  • V-DEM – very big project, probably the most comprehensive, stretching back to 19th century.
• Human Rights:
  • ADL – Global 100 on anti-Semitism
  • CPJ – on killed and imprisoned journalists
  • FIRE – disinvitation database (college rankings)… on similar note, see also Heterodox Academy.
  • Free Existence – gun rights and other freedoms not usually included
  • Reporters without Borders – World Press Freedom Index
• Politics Tests: F Scale, ISideWith, Political Bias Test, PolitiScales, Political Compass

Social Media Pundits

• Power Brokers: @Vitalik Buterin, @Elon Musk, @jack, @realDonaldTrump
• Leftists – Anti-Imperialism: Mark Ames [@MarkAmesExiled], Caitlin Johnstone [@caitoiz], @LilyLynch, Aaron Mate [@aaronjmate], @Lizzie Phelan, @George Szamuely, Matt Tracey [@mtracey]
• Radical Centrism: @Kevin Doremus, @Enopoletus
• Alt Lite/Right Leaders: @TuckerCarlson, @Nick Fuentes, @Richard B. Spencer
• Dissident Right/Alt Right/NRx: @aleph, @Annatar, @anomalyuk, @BattleBeagle, @Chandala Nath, @Darren Beattie, @David Cole, @HyperDupont, @Jim Jatras, @Orwell & Goode, @Parallax Optics, @P.D. Mangan, @quackocracy, @solidus, @VVNotorious
• RW Slav Twitter: @Aiacides, @Constantine, @Da_Praetor, @estavisti, @Gaslight, @Korenchkin, @Markovets, @nadbrovni dugin, @Pomidorowa_Parówka, @PraetorPeregrinus, @Skunkworks, @slovburg, @Teša Tešanović, @Anatoly Voronin, @volvoks, @Wrangelist, @Wyvern of Herzegovina, @Yankeestani, @Yaroslavsky
• Powerful Takes: @Bronze Age Pervert, @CityBureaucrat, @daskify, @GyatsoTensing, @KantBot, @Mencius Moldbugman, @RealXiJinping, @SolarImperialist, @WokeCapital, @ZeroHPLovecraft, @Zolbar Sakusan
• European Nationalists: @Chris Nahr, @eugyppius, @RobertKearney, @Paul Moczar
• RW Orgs/Publishers: Arktos [@ArktosMedia], @Imperium, @Mystery Grove, Matt Forney [@TerrorHouse], @Scandza Forum, @Tsar Press

Geopolitics

• Journals/Blogs: podcast-The Duran (Alexander Mercouris & Alex Christoforou), National Interest, RealClearDefense, /r/geopolitics, South Front, Strategy Page, Stratfor, War is Boring, War on the Rocks | BMPD [ru], Danger Room, Colonel Cassad (Борис Рожин), Aris Roussinos [@arisroussinos], Sic Semper Tyrannis
• Dashboards
  • Blackrock Geopolitical Risks Dashboard
  • Correlates of War
  • Lowy Global Diplomacy Index
  • SIPRI Milex
  • UN Refugee Emergencies
• Military Affairs
  • Air Power Australia (Carlo Kopp)
• Social Media – Geopolitics: @Kartuli Cthulhu

China Watch

• Journals/Blogs: Eastern Arsenal, Global Times [@Hu Xijin], /r/Sino | Hidden Harmonies (N.M. Cheung), Peter Lee [@chinahand], Godfree Roberts [@Godfree], Zhou Xiaoping [cn], Andy Xie [cn]
• Social Media: @Duke of Qin, @DailyMao, @Alexander Gabuev, @ArtyomLukin, @QiaoCollective, @Sinotriumph, @Carl Zha
• In Chinese: Guancha

Other Countries

• Korea: @AndreiLankov, @KingBaeksu
• Armenia: @Zinvor
• Iran: @mohsen

• Core Economics Resources
  • Trading Economics – e.g. for [insert country]: inflation, interest rate, reserves, budget, debt, wages, vehicle sales, manufacturing PMI, ease of doing business
  • Wikipedia rankings, e.g. List of Countries by GDP
  • IMF – World Economic Outlook, Data Mapper
  • OECD – OECD Data, Better Life Index
  • World Bank – WB Data, iSimulate
  • World Economic Forum – Reports (competitiveness, gender gap, etc)
  • World Input-Output Database
  • CIA World Facebook
  • US Stats & Institutions: BEA, BLS, EIA, NBER, PIEE, St. Louis FED
• Living Standards
  • Numbeo – Cost of Living
  • Economist Big Mac Index (converter)
  • Internet World Stats
• Development
  • Gapminder
  • Human Progress
  • Social Progress Imperative
• Infrastructure
  • Brookings Global Metro Monitor 2015
  • Global Economy has a bunch of these, e.g. road quality
  • Skyscraper City Forum
  • UrbanRail.net
• Infrastructure Maps: Flight Radar, Internet Traffic, Marine Traffic, OpenRailwayMap, Ship Map
• Manufacturing
  • Atlas of Economic Complexity – rankings & Observatory of Economic Complexity – for products, countries, as well as trade components
  • Performance Curve Database
  • OICA – vehicle production
  • Gardener Web – machine tool production
• Pseudo-economics: Deagel Forecast 2025 & Shadow Stats

• Journals/Blogs: Seeking Alpha | David Pinsen [@dpinsen]
• Finance
  • Companies Market Cap – can also search resources, e.g. gold
  • Bloomberg – Billionaire Index
  • Wikirating – Country Credit Ratings
• Boom/Bust Checks
  • Guru Focus:
    • Buffett Indicator Global Overview (US, Russia, etc)
    • Where Are We with Market Valuations?
    • Shiller PE (see also)
    • Yield Curve
  • Conference Board – Leading Economic Index
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York – Recession Probability Model
  • Star Capital – Stock Market Valuations

• Journals/Blogs: Demoscope [ru]
• Demographics Core
  • Wikipedia is really good for this (just replace country name)
  • UN – World Population Prospects
  • Hard Stats for programming: Human Mortality Database, Human Life Table Database, The Human Fertility Database
• Simulations
  • INED

• Academic Conferences: ISIR, LCI
• Academic Journals: Intelligence, Journal of Intelligence, Mankind Quarterly (archive), OpenPsych, Personality and Individual Differences, Psych, Siberian Psych, The Winnower
• Reference: Eugenics, HBD Bibliography, View on IQ (David Becker)
• IQ Journals/Blogs: video-Edward Dutton (Jolly Heretic – legacy YouTube [@jollyheretic]), Education Realist, Emil Kirkegaard (YouTube) [@KirkegaardEmil], Steve Hsu (infoproc) [@hsu_steve], La Griffe du Lion, Meng Hu, Wael Taji Miller [@coevolutionist], Jonatan Pallesen [@jonatanpallesen], Pumpkin Person [@PumpkinPerson2], Ion Râmaru [@Ion_Ramaru], Random Critical Analysis [@RCAFMD], Slitty Eye, Spotted Toad [@Spotted Toad], James Thompson [@JamesPsychol], Unsilenced Science
• Core IQ Stats
  • OECD – PISA/Explorer
  • NCES – PISA, TIMSS
  • TIMSS & PIRLS
  • Wittgenstein Centre Human Capital Data Explorer
  • World Bank – Global Dataset on Education Quality
  • GSS 1972-2008 Cumulative Datafile (Wordsum)
  • NLSY 1979
  • SEDA Stanford Education Data Archive
  • Russia: ЕГЭ analysis, HSE Мониторинг Качества Приема
• Cognitive Tests: Cambridge Brain Sciences, IQTest.dk, Mensa, Russian Military Test, Test Your Vocab/Тест словарного запаса, X-Rite Color Challenge (see EOK’s list)
• Human Accomplishment
  • Pantheon
  • Charles Murray’s HA files
  • IISH – Bibliometrics
  • Google – Ngram Viewer
  • Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Index Translationum – World Bibliography of Translation
  • Abandoned: MAPS, A Brief History, New York Times Media Analytics
• HBD/IQ Social Media: @a_centrism, @Rosalind Arden, @billare, @Nathan Cofnas, @Thomas R. Coyle, @Rolf Degen, @Dr. HBD NRX, @Evolving_Moloch, Diana S. Fleischman [@sentientist], @WillFlyte, @g factor, @Zach Goldberg, @Richard Haier, @HateGraphs, @Holtz, @ice9, @InquisitiveBird, @Garett Jones, @Lee Jussim, @Jonathan Kay, @Alexander Kruel, @Philippe Lemoine, @MetaContrarian, @Geoffrey Miller, @charlesmurray, @Neven Sesardic, @New Paradigm, @Pale Primate, @pnin1957, @RealScienceNow, @reiver, @Russell T. Warne, @SiberianFox, @Ben Sixsmith, @Gavan Tredoux, @Uriah, @VolkmarWeiss, @Ben Winegard, @BoWinegard, @Jonathan Wai, @EmilyWilloughby, @Yeyo

Social Media – Big Brains

• Famous Scholars: @Bryan Caplan, @StevenPinker, @Balaji Srinivasan, @NNTaleb
• Twitter Intellectuals: @ByzantiaEmporia, @epsilon, @harpersnotes, @Irkutyanin, @LudwigW, @Nemets, @AndrewSabisky, @scientism, @whyvert, @Yana

Literature

• Fantasy: GRRM – Blog, map, At Sea Journal, Beautiful Death; Tolkien – LoTR in Numbers

Humor & Memes

• Archives: Check out Piracy Guide for recs on how to get more books (for free).
  • Books: Main Collectections: Project Gutenberg, Unz Review Archives
  • History: Chinese Text Project, Fordham University – Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  • Politics: Marxists Internet Archive
  • Individual Archives: James Flynn, Francis Galton, Arthur Jensen
  • Music: KHInsider, SovMusic.ru
  • Other Media: Library of Codexes (video game texts)
• Humor: Cracked, TV Tropes, xkcd/What If? (Randall Munroe)
  • Fun Apps: Library of Babel, PoMo Essay Generator, hackertyper, Wiki Military Editor
  • Reviews: Metacritic, Rock Paper Shotgun
• Memes: /r/PoliticalCompassMemes, /r/VirginVsChad
• RW Humor: altright fanfiction, Iron Pill, The Right Drama
• Political Nutjobs: Slavery Advocate, Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact
• Social Media – Humor: @BadUSSRTakes, @CursedBalkanYouTubeComments, @FedsPostingLs, @JournosPostingLs

Scientometrics

• Academic Journals: Acta Astronautica
• Journals/Blogs: Aeon, Discover, Edge, /r/Futurology, Hacker News, Nautil, NextBigFuture (Brian Wang), PopMech, PopSci, science20, ScientificAmerican, TED, video-Vsauce, WaitButWhy, Wired | Variance Explained
• Core Scientometrics
  • Nature Index – countries
  • SJR International Science Ranking
  • Reuters Highly Cited
• University Rankings: Shanghai (ARWU), QS, THES, MosIUR
• Tech Density: Top 500 supercomputers, GameDevMap, World Map of High-throughput Sequencers

Rationality & Transhumanism

• Rationality Journals/Blogs: Scott Aaronson, Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander – legacy) [@slatestarcodex], Nick Bostrom, gwern (newsletter) [@gwern], Robin Hanson [@robinhanson], Roko Mijic (Heretical Update) [@RokoMijicUK], Anders Sandberg (blog) [@anderssandberg], Alexander Turok (@Turok)
• Rationality & Effective Altruism
  • Less Wrong (Eliezer Yudkowsky) [@ESYudkowsky] – central node/forum of the rationality community.
  • Alignment Forum
  • Effective Altruism (forum)
  • EA Global
  • /r/slatestarcodex & /r/TheMotte are extensions of the Slate Star Codex community, the main second node of the rationality community in addition to LessWrong
  • AI Orgs: DeepMind, MIRI
  • EA Orgs: 80,000 hours, GiveWell
  • Rationality Orgs: CFAR
• Existential Risks
  • Exit Mundi (Maarten Keulams)
  • X Risks Orgs: CSER (Jaan Tallinn), Future of Humanity (Nick Bostrom), Future of Life (Jaan Tallinn), Lifeboat, Long Now
• Social Media: @Alex K. Chen, @David Pearce

Transhumanism

• Transhumanism Journals/Blogs: h+ magazine (Peter Rothman), Kurzweil AI, IEET, transhumanity.net | Biohackinfo [@biohackinfo], Marshall Brain, The Futurist, Future Pundit (Randall Parker [@futurepundit]), Oakland Futurist (Scott Jackisch)
•  Transhumanism
  • Biohack.me – grinders
  • Transhuman.ru (legacy) – major hub for Russian transhumanists.
• Social Media: @CyborgFuturist, @Gennady Stolyarov, @MaxTegmark, @posthumanAK, @Alexey Turchin

Russia Data

• Институты: Российское Государство – Кремлин
• Партии: Единая Россия, KPRF, ЛДПР, Навальный/ФБК [@navalny], Parnas, Yabloko
  • Нац. Организации/Партии: Общество Будущее (Роман Юнеман [@roman_yuneman, YouTube]), РВИО, РОД Право, Русские Вперед (@russiansforwards/Сергей Григоров), Русский Орел, Русское Имперское Движение (ВК), Союз Казаков
• Core Russia Data
  • Росстат (ЕМИСС) – central stats portal
  • CBR – finance
  • ЦИК/CEC – elections
  • MVD – crime & immigration
  • Open Data
  • National Stats: Belstat, Ukrstat
  • Moscow: Open Data (births/deaths, names, etc)
  • Misc Data: Prime Crimea (mafia), Survey of Russian Elites 1993-2016
• Russia Opinion Polls: Levada, VCIOM, FOM
  • Ukraine Opinion Polls: KIIS, Rating Group, Razumkov, SOCIS
• Russia Finance: Rosrealt, IRN Moscow
• Мозговые Центры: Cargenie, CAST, Gaidar Institute, INSOR, ISEPR, RISS
• NGO: Dissernet, Memorial
• Misc: 2ch/hk, kompromat.ru, Lurkmore, ROI, Ruxpert

Russian News/Bloggers

• Центристы: Коммерсант, МК, Ведомости | Андрей Колесников (Коммерсант)
• Патриоты: АиФ, Inosmi, Известия, КП, Однако, RBTH, РГ, RT/RT Russian, Ruposters, TV Zvezda, Vzglyad | idiot.fm (Максим Кононенко [@kononenkome]), Незнайка на Луне (Кирилл Панкратов), Олег Лурье, Олег Магаренко (fritzmorgen), peremogi, Православие.ru, Сделано у нас, Лев Шаранский, Николай Стариков
• Националисты: Черная Сотня [Дмитрий Бастраков [@chernaya100book]], Двуглавый Орел (Константин Малофеев & Андрей Афанасьев [@Andrey Afanasyev]), Царьград, ВБлокнот, Vespa, ukraina.ru, Завтра | Александр Чаленко (ukraina.ru), podcast-Andrey_Funt, podcast-CzarStream/CzarTalks (Егор Просвирнин [@czartube]), Егор Холмогоров (LJ blog/FB [@holmogorov]), Емергентор/yarowrath hate club (Пророк), Ethnocrime (Дмитрий Бобров [@dmbobrov]), Дмитрий Галковский, video-Гроза (Николай Росов), Кирилл Каминец, Катехон (Александр Дугин), podcast-Николай Колосов [@NikolayKolosoff], Константин Крылов, Эдуард Лимонов, video-Микитко сын Алексеев, Расология (Владимир Авдеев), podcast-Роберт Райт [@DemocratRussian], podcast-Розанов Клуб [@rozanovclub, @savva_fedoseev_], podcast-Russian Highlights [@FunnyDog1552], russians.sexy, Sputnik & Pogrom (Егор Просвирнин), Игорь Стрелков, video-Сыч, video-Uncle Ded, podcast-Сергей Задумов [@zadumov], отдельно: Vendee (+ iimk88/pravcheloveka.net/video-Russian Forward/”Инквизиция”/и т.д.)
• Леваки: Left.ru, Свободная Пресса, Труд.ru | Михаил Делягин, Гоблин (Дмитрий Пучков – YouTube), video-Никола  Платошкин, Суть Времени (Кургинян)
• Либералы: Эхо Москвы [Алексей Венедиктов [@aavst]), gazeta.ru, Медуза, Moscow Times, Новая Газета, НГ, Републик, TV.Rain | Аркадий Бабченко (@StarshinaZapasa), Андрей Илларионов, Noodle Remover (Давид Хомак [@aalien] & Алексей Ковалев [@Alexey__Kovalev]), Варламов [@varlamov], video-вДудь
• Свидомые: Censor, Euromaidan Press, Inforesist, Корреспондент, Kyiv Post, Odessa Review, Петр и Мазепа, Правда, Stopfake, Зеркало Недели
• Другие лимитрофы: Кавказ Центр, Орда 1313, Zilaxar

Social Media – Politics

• Power Brokers: @DmitryMedvedev, @KremlinPoolRIA, @Поклонская, @RussianEmbassyUK, @Симонян, @Zhirinovsky
• Организации: @SputnikVaccine
• Патриоты: @Mithgol the Webmaster, @Sergey Nalobin, @Витязева
• Националисты: @AbleArcher, @AlexAbanin, @Artyom Alexandrov, @AlvaroBerardi, @Barenboim, @CalmEuropean, @crimeangoth, @DaCosmonaut, @Гиперборейщина, @kameneva_lesya, @Ross Marsov (@RussianIdentitarians), @Алексей Ларкин, @Maria, @momino, @motornyprozak, @niemontal, @nondum, @Погром и Созидание, @Roiu, @Russky Imperialist, @sh1pman, @shangya, @Sheyn, @SpenglerPravda, @Tex, @treasuredog, @uisbg1, @uraloid, @MaxVaganov, @Konstantin Velichkov, @VileVarangian [TG… also at @zloy_kreiser, but keeps getting banned on Twitter), @Zmicerz