I'll be updating this list as I post bulletins about them. Here are some of the inclusion criteria I have for this project. The entries here do not use AI. In general, the entries should be projects that are not linked with large for-profit orgainizations. If possible, I'd like to avoid forums (unless they're built around creating some kind of useful project).
Advocacy/ Journalism:
MuckRock
Muckrock is a nonprofit collaboration between journalists and community organizers. It creates an easy avenue to send FOIL and FOIA requests to your local government. As an added bonus, you can search all requests that have been sent via MuckRock. Their goal is to make requesting, analyzing and sharing government information easier. By doing so they hope to make politics more transparent and democracy more informed.
Architecture:
SOS Brutalism
SOS Brutalism is a project dedicated to cataloging and advocating for brutalist architecture around the world. They have this nifty map that lets you check and see if there's brutalist structures in your area. If you're a big fan of "concrete monstrosities" like I am, you're going to love this site.
Skyscraper Page
Finally, a place on the internet where people who love tall buildings can come together and talk about skyscrapers. This website has been active since 1997 and features over 85,000 uniform drawings aiming to represent individual buildings to scale. According to this site, it took hundreds of volunteer illustrators to create this database.
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=6
History:
The Political Graveyard
This strange little website has been around since 1996 and claims to be the most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead. Odds are, if you wanted to learn about prominant early polititians in your home town, this would be the place to do it.
https://politicalgraveyard.com/
Wiki-Based:
Wikicommute
https://wikicommute.vercel.app/
Xikipedia
Are you tired of exploring Wikipedia the old fashioned way? Are you suffering from brain rot and need a hand up out of the sludge? This website allows you to infinitely scroll Wikipedia. Experience all the ups and downs of the algorithmic dopamine slot machine-- all while exposing you to the world's #1 crowd sourced encyclopedia.
Media:
Free Media Heck Yeah
FMHY is a well maintained directory of free online media sources. It includes hundreds of links to pirate the world's media. If you're looking for books, courses, movies, digital tools, and just about any other digital file-- this is a good place to look.
Anna's Archive
Anna's Archive is the largest shadow library ever assembled. It contains all the files from Sci-Hub, as well as the books from Libgen. As of 02/24/26, Anna's Archive is in big trouble with Spotify for having downloaded their entire music library. Anna's Archive has said its objectives are to "catalog all the books in existence." But they seem happy to archive just about anything. I recommend checking out their Wikipedia page for a full brief on Anna's Archive.
Music:
Moby Gratis
Money Gratis is a website by electronic artist, Moby. It features a ton of free, high quality songs you can use for any reason except for promoting meat and dairy and/or right wing politics.
Maps:
Terraink
Love those high-end looking posters of cities and towns? Have you ever thought about making one that centers on the place you first kissed your now-partner or your first apartment? Terraink is a site that uses OpenStreetMap data and nice pre-designed palates to make fancy-looking maps of where-ever you want. Just pop in some GPS coordinates and you're selling fancy maps on Etsy.
Video Games:
noclipdotwebsite
noclipdotwebsite is a digital museum of video game levels. It renders video game levels in the browser and lets you fly around at whatever pace you want. It includes NPCs and sometimes items that would have been in the environment as well. This is a great tool for recording little environmental videos or just for exploration. You can also download the source code on github, which is a neat feature.
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