David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social Self-employed Design & Interaction Developer at Elastiq Ltd.
Independent researcher exploring color perception, palette tools, and interface design through prototyping.
Gosia Edge @gosiaedge.bsky.social ✖ Load bikes,not bombs
✖ Powered by plants outdoors lover, bikepackHER, hiker based in the UK
✖ RADical dreamer, wanderer, and wonderer
✖ Lemmi, Pedro-Clarice 🐩 Eliah 🐈⬛
✖ married @aaronedgeart.bsky.social
✖ Not an artist @blackcirclesociety.bsky.social
Jordan Mechner @jmechner.bsky.social I make video games (Prince of Persia) and graphic novels (Replay, Monte Cristo, Liberty) and fill up sketchbooks. American in France. https://jordanmechner.com
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Bryan King @handle.invalid thought scavenger. designer of marketing software.
Cincinnati
bryanking.blog
Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com Building WebSim websim.com
Product thoughts: RobHaisfield.com
My research: ScalingSynthesis.com
necopinus 🔹 @necopinus.xyz Reluctant anti-utopian | Breaker of things | https://warpcast.com/necopinus.eth
Timber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/timberss
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Anna Gát @annagat.bsky.social Girl with books. I lead Interintellect.
David Lang @davidtlang.com Experimenting…
Ian @eyecheng.bsky.social Entropy Wrangler
iancheng.com
Alex Dobrenko @alexd23.bsky.social Sinner saint no shame. Writer comedian guy.
head of creative at www.sublime.app
head of writing at botharetrue.substack.com - absurd vlunerable essays that one person called "not bad actually"
i live, laugh, love in asheville, nc
Nadia Asparouhova @nayafia.bsky.social https://nadia.xyz
Ben Reinhardt @benjaminreinhardt.com Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉
https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn
Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com Art critic, filmmaker, communicator.
https://kevinbuist.com/
Hadjar @hadjarhomaei.com CTO @ compdemocracy.org, pol.is | scientist surrealist pragmatist punk | AI/ML, HCI, ECON, NSFW!
Oshan Jarow @oshan.bsky.social Consciousness • Economics • This is all very bewildering, but I’m writing about it.
There’s also this, oshanjarow.com, and this: economicpossibility.org
sahil @sahil.bsky.social Working on trust graphs and reputation systems for online communities @karma3labs using EigenTrust https://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/eigentrust.pdf
Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social how shall we live together?
societal impacts researcher at Anthropic
saffronhuang.com
Les Greys 🔹 @les.bsky.social work, write,build - lesgreys.com
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
John Robb @johnrobb.bsky.social Global Guerrilla
Rob Knight @root.guru A large language model mostly trained on Neal Stephenson novels
Angela Walch @angelawalch.substack.com Worst-Case Scenario-ist | OG Crypto Realist | Angela Walch newsletter | Advisor of Governments | Fmr Law Prof | The Protocol System Experience
http://angelawalch.substack.com
angelawalch.com
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
casey wichman @cjwich.bsky.social I study people and the environment.
caseyjwichman.com
The Yak Collective 🔹 @yakcollective.org An online space for collaborative tinkering towards life in a post-weirding world. Learn more at https://yakcollective.org
Goutham Kurra @gkurra.bsky.social Co-founder of Wisq & Glint (acquired by LinkedIN)
Building, Writing, Music, Philosophy, AI.
https://hyperstellar.substack.com
Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social I use big data to research the cultural evolution of arts @ Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
More: https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/oleg-sobchuk.html
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Sai Prasanna @saiprasanna.in See(k)ing the surreal
Causal World Models for Curious Robots @ University of Tübingen/Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems 🇩🇪
#reinforcementlearning #robotics #causality #meditation #vegan
Jennifer RM @jenrm.bsky.social Meta, semantic archaeology, posteriors, priors, books, souls, cryonics, ML/AGI, anti-slavery, biotech, policy ethics, nano, global governance. Also jokes because it's funny, right?! 🙃
bolson @bolson.org computer wizard. acrobat. better democracy through computer science.
futur 🔹 @futur.blue words in places and ways they probably shouldn't be
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer she/her 🏳️⚧️
bay area 🌉
cognitohazard 🌀
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
sōm ⁂ @hyl.st another weekend warrior trying to save the world
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
Ken Muldrew @kenmuldrew.bsky.social What Ho!
github.com/kmuldrew/demolishing_consent
Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
https://chenoehart.com/
Eric Breckenfeld @ericbreckenfeld.bsky.social Director of Technology Policy at NVIDIA. Formerly DARPA, Semiconductor Industry Association, and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. Recovering scientist.
avery @averywlittle.bsky.social optimist. building apps and online business. indie hacker. yimby. desires more trains. story enthusiast. cat dad. loves a good hike. anti-fascist.
michigander turned san diegan
Kieran Hegarty @kieranhegarty.bsky.social ✨ Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies) ✨ kieranhegarty.com
Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social ⦁ PhD Candidate at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
⦁ Shaping AI project | Social studies of deep learning
⦁ FlashLab Seminar | "Digital Materialities" Workgroup at CIS/CNRS | Editor at @journal-reset.bsky.social
Dr Selin Nugent @selinnugent.bsky.social 📚 Associate Professor + Assistant Director - Centre for Al, Culture & Society @ OBU
🏺Co-Director - Bat Archaeological Project, Oman
Anthropologist of the impacts of AI / Tech imaginaries. Contending with tech in heritage | archaeology | humanities
Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano
Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change.
My book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tq57nt98c
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com Working at the intersections of tech, public interest, policy & philanthropy. Independent advisor. Before: Director at European AI & Society Fund. Co-founder at ThingsCon. Senior Fellow at Mozilla.
https://thewavingcat.com
Boris A @borisanthony.net ---
Too many side projects.
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Web Gardening / Digital Architecture / Systems Design
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Chair in a Room / Room in a House / House in a Town
Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
Matt Biddulph @biddul.ph AI at io
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Johannes Kleske @jkleske.bsky.social Helping people make sense of futures, johanneskleske.com
Igor Schwarzmann @igorschwarzmann.com Design Researcher & Strategist. Secretive Futurist. Product of more than one culture which is fancy for Third Culture Kid. More: igorschwarzmann.com. AMA.
Samantha Culp @samanthaculp.bsky.social Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social Partner at Changeist.com
Futures adjacent
Project Lead: https://www.10fconsortium.org/
Contributing Editor: “How to Future” (2020)
Author: “Future Cultures” (2023)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com 👽 butch Frizzle 👽 〰 journalist 〰 sculptor 〰 they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
→ → → Please listen to TESTED https://www.tested-podcast.com/
"covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
@coyotemedia.org calendar guy
Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social Nearsighted Optimist.
Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio
Posts in ENG and TUR
ahmetasabanci.com
tuhafgelecek.com
tuhaf.studio
newslabturkey.org
Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org PhD & MFA. She/her. I’m interested in place-related work, writing, all things Elizabeth Bishop, pedagogy and learning, poetry, children’s lit, crafting, nature & soccer/football. Lived in Lausanne for over a decade and now back in the US.
Gemma Copeland @gemcopeland.bsky.social Designer, researcher, organiser and educator. Co-founding member of @commonknowledge.coop, a worker co-op that supports social movements through design, development, training and facilitation.
https://gemmacope.land/
https://commonknowledge.coop/
Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social Futurist. Writer. Created BANI.
Lead Author, NAVIGATING THE AGE OF CHAOS.
Not as funny as he thinks he is.
Probably won't follow-back unless he knows you. Sorry.
John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social Strategic Design, Futures, Wildlife.
Expect hedgehogs.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social Big machines // Writer, artist, educator // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso) // Visiting Prof - UCL // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
Genevieve Bell @feraldata.bsky.social Still hanging around at the intersections of tech and culture. Building a new school in oz: https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/
👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
nicolasnova @nicolasnova.bsky.social Anthropology of digital cultures/technologies and environmental changes, design research, design fiction. Professor at Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD) / Managing partner girardinnova.com / posts in English et en français
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨
🌐 johannesklingebiel.de
RADAR @radarxyz.bsky.social RADAR is a global collective of curious people thinking about, envisioning, and building better futures in multiplayer mode. https://linktr.ee/radar_xyz
Ån @feralresearch.org Computational queer. Arts, culture, design. Riding the global frequency of weird and working on a better future. Sometimes I academic, less so lately. See also: https://bsky.app/profile/foxriot.com
http://andrewsempere.org
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Martin Spindler @mjays.bsky.social Asymmetric Strategies.
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Christina Agapakis @agapakis.com Crafting new stories where biology and technology meet oscillator.bio
chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social turnt tf up in the widening gyre
Simon Höher @simonhoeher.com Systems Change Lead @ darkmatterlabs.org
Public Design @ simonhoeher.com
I like weird astro-jazz.
Nikolas Badminton @futurist.bsky.social Chief Futurist, futurist speaker and Hope Engineer™ @ futurist.com. JP Morgan's "Next Gen Pick" 'Facing Our Futures' is out now and shifting mindsets from what is to what if...
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
eve massacre @evemassacre.bsky.social hopeless culture romantic and radical utopian. cosmopolitan solidarity. hope is work.
evemassacre.de
bless mastodon: @evemassacre@mastodon.social
sometime they play: https://www.youtube.com/evemassacre
Iskander Smit @iskandersmit.nl Futures explorations via weekly newsletter iskandr.nl -
Research, experiment, co-design human-intelligent technology partnerships in Citiesofthings.org -
Curating, organising responsible tech and beyond - ThingsCon https://bsky.app/profile/thingscon.org
Jake Dunagan @dunagan23.bsky.social Social invention, experiential futures, neuropolitics.