Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Peter de Jager @pdjager.bsky.social I led Y2K awareness in the 1990s. Speaker, writer and consultant mainly in Change Management.
Podcast: Y2K an autobiography
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Onni Komulainen @onnitestaa.bsky.social Testiautomaatiospesialisti | Helsinki
Minua kiinnostaa jääkiekko (#Kärpät , #Canes), elokuvat, snooker, meemit, hyvä ruoka ja ruoanlaitto sekä ajankohtaiset ilmiöt pintaa syvemmältä.
David Evans @davidevans66.bsky.social Agile Coach, Trainer & Consultant. Also a lawn nerd.
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star.
Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through.
https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Vincent Fuchs @vincent-f.bsky.social
@zedbahn.bsky.social @zedbahn.bsky.social
Stuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social Cognitive/social scientist and occasional coder. Umquhile Mancunian. Purveyor of Jurassic Park memes. Writes on modernization and technology. Consciously uncoupling from corporate shenanigans. Halifax, Nova Scotia
https://morungos.com/
Nicola Lindgren @nicolalindgren.bsky.social Mum | Wife | Platform Manager | Avid Reader
🇵🇭/ 🇳🇿 -->📍: 🇸🇪
🔎 QA/ Testing
🛣️ Leadership
📚 Learning
✍️ Blog: nicolalindgren.com
📕 Books: https://leanpub.com/u/nicolalindgren
@tonybruce.bsky.social @tonybruce.bsky.social
Bill Matthews @billmatthews.bsky.social
Fifty Skies of Shey @sheymouse.bsky.social Maker, Breaker, Tester, Dadster, Beer Drinker, Networker, Fixer.
Maaike Brinkhof @maaikees.bsky.social Jack of all trades, master of none: Tester, Developer, Powerlifter, Nutritionist, Writer. I do too many things, and I can't help it.
Dan Billing @danielbilling.bsky.social Software Tester, security journeyman, budding Python and Typescript/React developer. Ex Microsoft
Wanderer in Space and Time
Cats, and of course Dogs,
Tattoos! Photographer!
Vernon Richards @testerfromleic.bsky.social I ghostwrite Educational Email Courses for software testing tool vendors | 20+ years testing & coaching in tech | Will Smith's Virtual Stunt Double
Alex Schladebeck @alexschl.bsky.social Agile tester. Consultant. International keynote speaker. Sport & adrenaline junkie.
CEO at Bredex GmbH.
She/her
Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social Workshop designer/facilitator, keynote speaker, gardener, dog lover, choral singer, and (recovering) software test/quality consultant. Still interested, engaged, and sometimes enraged with tech.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Nicole Ashley @handle.invalid Cinematographer, filmmaker, actor. 🏳️⚧️⚢
Auckland, New Zealand
nicole.ashley.kiwi
Karen Tests Stuff @karentestsstuff.bsky.social I test stuff:
Software...
Patience...
You name it!
Find my channel on YouTube here -> https://www.youtube.com/c/KarenTestsStuff
Paul Grizzaffi @pgrizzaffi.bsky.social That #Automation Dude | #Keynote #speaker | Asker of uncomfortable #testing questions | #Blogger | #Writer | #HeavyMetal aficionado 🤘 | https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulgrizzaffi/
https://twitter.com/pgrizzaffi
Josh Grant @joshgrant.online I love big ideas and math and stuff. Mostly harmless. Also @joshin4colours elsewhere. Toronto. Ontario.
Link in Bio: joshgrant.online
Olly Fairhall @pixel-tester.bsky.social Coming here as a software tester but am also into games, Lego, films and probably other things too.
Rahul Parwal @parwalrahul.bsky.social Love Testing | Jerry Weinberg Testing Excellence Awardee | ifm 🧡 | Test Specialist✌️ | International Speaker🎙 | RST PA
Aleksandar Simic @asimic.bsky.social "Ain't technology grand—solving problems we never should have had in the first place?"
Gerald M. Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
Del Dewar @deefex.bsky.social Software Test Professional, Karateka, and Cyclist. Hates Brussel Sprouts.
John Hyslop @gentletester.bsky.social Avid testing evangelist- B @beaglesays.bsky.social @beaglesays.bsky.social
Damian Synadinos @dsynadinos.bsky.social Speaker (ineffable-solutions.com), artist (idrawstrangers.com), author (hankandstellabooks.com), tester, skeptic, & much More Than That...
Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com I want you to win and be happy. Code, OSS, STEM, Beyoncé, T1D, open source artificial pancreases, Portland, 3D printing http://hanselminutes.com inclusive tech podcast! VP/Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft/GitHub 🌮
http://hanselman.com/about
Raj Mathur @oldwiseman.bsky.social Delivery Director @MSFT. I work with tech teams solve complex problems and deliver successful products. Mentor, coach, and tech enthusiast.
https://substack.com/@oldwiseman
@mheusser.bsky.social @mheusser.bsky.social
@craigmckirdy.bsky.social @craigmckirdy.bsky.social
Jared Quinert @xflibble.bsky.social Software quality and testing, gluten-free experiments, Sixers soap opera, low-budget home espresso. Wondering why the kids aren't angrier.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Jeremy Keith @adactio.com Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
James Christie @jamesdchristie.bsky.social Semi-retired IT consultant. Experienced in software dev, IT audit, testing, info security management. Still active in whatever engages or angers me (eg #PostOfficeScandal). Match reporter for Dundee FC.
Loves writing. See clarotesting.wordpress.com.
J. B. Rainsberger @jbrains.ca A professional 5-pin bowler who helps software professionals work with less stress for ready money. tdd.training jbrains.ca
Association for Software Testing @ast-news.bsky.social Advancing understanding of science/practice of software testing according to context-driven principles. International. Non-profit. Join us: https://bit.ly/JoinUsAtAST
LinkTree: https://brand.page/associationforsoftwaretesting
Ben Simo @qualityfrog.bsky.social Not an actual #frog.
Amphibious
time-traveling
#ContextDriven
#cyborg
software investigator.
#Tester.
#AI #Researcher.
#Photographer.
Sorta skilled #hacker.
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
#DisabilityJustice feed I created:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:65kss3ewg5ida5mjyuk73v5r/feed/aaaba7ikg4sho
More about me
https://linktr.ee/disability_visibility
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social Karla is a Puerto Rican artist who loves to paint and draw. Karla works on Films (MCU, ILM,HBO), Games, TV, Covers, Fine art, etc. She is also a passionate advocate for better artist industries+ rights. Opinions are her own. ✌️
www.karlaortizart.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
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