Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
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I like programming too much for not liking automatic programming.
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British-American
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Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian
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karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
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IPFS @ipfs.tech Building blocks for a better web. Open protocols to store, verify, and share data across distributed networks 💎.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
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