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Richard Deitsch

Richard Deitsch

@richarddeitsch

theathletic.com/richard40off

Father of twins; fan of Buffalo/NYC/Toronto; Radio (2-5 ET) at @FAN590 & @sportsnet; Writer @theathletic; host of Sports Media Podcast

194509 followers

Lens Rankings

Science

#1208 0.000143 Epidemiology Journalism
#4609 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#5024 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#6621 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Journalism

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#1233 0.000114 Foreign Policy
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#2217 0.000061 Bloomberg Opinion
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#2544 0.000048 The Dispatch
#4058 0.000030 The Atlantic
#4392 0.000001 The Information
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#5201 0.000001 The Verge
#5546 0.000000 OANN
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#8079 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#8708 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8906 0.000000 Palladium Magazine
#9181 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9559 0.000001 VICE

Think Tanks

#1233 0.000114 Niskanen Center
#1806 0.000067 Council on Foreign Relations
#3024 0.000046 American Enterprise Institute
#3024 0.000046 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4472 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#4529 0.000001 Belfer Center
#4713 0.000001 Urban Institute
#4930 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#5328 0.000001 Cato Institute
#6285 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#7153 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7297 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7738 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8653 0.000011 Brookings
#8782 0.000000 Earth Institute
#9479 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Culture and Political Economy

#1408 0.000089 Ecomodernists
#1438 0.000091 EFF
#2389 0.000038 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4063 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#4109 0.000001 Fair Vote
#4210 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#4244 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#4284 0.000001 Existential Risks
#4290 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#4304 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#4359 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#4586 0.000001 350.org
#4762 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#5200 0.000011 Harper's Open Letter
#5550 0.000020 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5555 0.000008 Moderate Conservatism
#5995 0.000001 Anarachists
#6013 0.000000 Environmental Journalists
#6499 0.000000 Bismark Analysis
#6966 0.000000 Social Epistemology
#7064 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#7096 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#7145 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#7227 0.000000 Heterodox Academy
#7423 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7545 0.000000 Works in Progress
#8021 0.000000 Effective Altruism
#8055 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#8639 0.000001 Rationality

system

#6307 0.000025 Baseline

Crypto

#4108 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#4199 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#4271 0.000001 Polkadot
#5808 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#6681 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6702 0.000000 Crypto Angels
#6731 0.000000 Cosmos
#7675 0.000000 Public Goods Funding
#7997 0.000000 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#9765 0.000000 Decentralized Web
#9886 0.000000 Ethereum

Venture Capital

#4083 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#4120 0.000001 Founders Fund
#4531 0.000001 Accel
#4904 0.000001 Sequioa
#5331 0.000001 Y Combinator
#6198 0.000000 Bessemer
#6468 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#6685 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6741 0.000000 Index Ventures
#7040 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#7181 0.000000 Homebrew
#8047 0.000000 Village Global
#8386 0.000000 Initialized Capital
#9020 0.000000 Khosla Ventures

Software Engineering

#4204 0.000001 Rust
#5706 0.000000 Zig

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