METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
Keenan Johnson @keenanjohnson.com Freelance Human. Founded some hardware startups. Loves making things. Currently in London.
https://www.keenanjohnson.com/
https://www.breadboardfoundry.com/
https://www.ribbitnetwork.org/
https://sifa.id/p/keenanjohnson.com
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Coty @coty.bsky.social Talk about technology, AI/ML, ethics, politics, language, etc. He/him.
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me Dad. Data business encabulator. Pizza robot whisperer. Born lucky.
dame @dame.is Creator of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app. Product engineer by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) 🏳️⚧️
Website: dame.is
Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
austin (e/chicken 🐔) @thebadcode.com 🦋sre@bsky.team
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Amelia Pollard @pollard.bsky.social Investment Correspondent at the Financial Times
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Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social The best goddamn dancer at the American Ballet Academy
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com
Bill @oldpine.bsky.social Long ago USMC infantry, more recently survived cancer. Chicago!
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social pragmatic optimist and well-known email author. lawyer never giving legal advice. views are mine alone.
cohen489.substack.com
americandemands.com
BOOK RECS THAT PAY ME + LOCAL STORES: https://bookshop.org/shop/cohen489
Alderman Matt Martin @aldermanmattmartin.bsky.social 47th Ward Alderman.
aldermanmartin.com
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social The podcast for laughing at the failures, crimes, and insanity of military history
Hosted by
@jkass99.bsky.social
@gotitatguineys.bsky.social @inthesedeserts.bsky.social @animejlumyan.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social Sci fi and Fantasy Author. Holocaust and Genocide Historian. Host of the Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Adam Harris @adamhsays.com writer, southern.
Co-host, Radio Atlantic.
Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America?
More: www.harrisadam.com
Elise Jordan @elisejordan.bsky.social Humbled by my Corgi. @ms.now co-host of the Weekend Primetime.
starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com Somewhere in Chicago, working near the intersection of immigration law, data, and technology. Not an attorney!
287(g) Program Tracker: tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-101/287g-program
buymeacoffee.com/andrewtitus
mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social host of Mary in America, a new podcast out now
https://www.youtube.com/@maryinamerica
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
@cnlohr.bsky.social @cnlohr.bsky.social 
Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
Ken Cheng @kenchengceo.bsky.social CEO, the biggest brain on LinkedIn
Contestant on ITV's #GeniusGame
https://linktr.ee/kencheng
Illinois EDC @illinoisedc.bsky.social The Illinois Economic Development Corporation (Illinois EDC) brings jobs, investment, and economic prosperity to Illinois. Formerly known as Intersect Illinois.
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social i'm back bitches
podcasting @wtyppod.bsky.social
Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod.bsky.social podcast about engineering going not good with @donoteat.bsky.social and @liamfromwtyp.bsky.social and @postoctobrist.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg
Charlotte Wilder @thewilderthings.bsky.social 1/2 of The Sports Gossip Show
sportsgossipshow.bsky.social
Writer at thewilderthings.substack.com
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein. Writer and editor for Liberal Currents. https://bsky.app/profile/liberalcurrents.com
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Daniel La Spata @daniellaspata.bsky.social Dad, urban planner, proven progressive, and Alderman of Chicago’s 1st Ward. Loving music, running, bread, biking, and democracy.
Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social That other brewery posting cat pictures is ripping us off. You can’t drink fancy beer here, but you can drink fancy beer at our taproom Mousetrap.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
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Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social Geothermal 🌋⚡️
CEO @ Fervo Energy
HTX
Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com I'm CTPO at Administrate, Homebrew Project Leader, ex-GitHub Principal Engineer, author of Git in Practice and an OSS and developer productivity leader.
Posting mostly automated from mikemcquaid.com.
If you want me to read your reply: email me instead.
Pcharnkov @manycoyote.bsky.social a dude, in Chicago?!?!?
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Kelly Bauer @bauerjournalism.bsky.social Block Club Chicago senior editor.
Tips: BauerJournalism@gmail.com
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social the tallest child in the world!! https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/the-french-drain-i-dug-back-in-2019
Wes Pinkle @ywfyf.com Occasionally based posting dilettante.
Present Day Sausage King of Chicago.
Pizza enthusiast. Sometime air person.
Impending wife guy.
he/him
Not an official anything, yada yada yada
Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com Climate developer, photographer, creator of @chiwho.bike and @electrifychicago.net | 🌎 viktorkoves.com
Link in Bio @chintanamin.bsky.social Itinerant lawyer. Liberaltarian. Influenced by my time in the 404 and the 412. Illini, Spurs, Gators, DC United, B04 Leverkusen, dem O’s hon’.
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Star Simpson @starstar.bsky.social Aviation, automation & a long list of other interests. 🇩🇪🇯🇲 Repeal the Jones Act ⛔️🚢 From Hawaii 🌺 Used to live in Iceland 🇮🇸 ég get varla talað íslensku. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.
kerrycardoza.bsky.social @kerrycardoza.bsky.social editor, Chicago Reader/@chicagoreaderunion.bsky.social
Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal.
**Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry
Views dont reflect my employer
jhp @lord-jason-jason.bsky.social Dad, software developer, I like to read and make little jokes
Christian! @likechristianb.bsky.social (Not the penguin)
Definitely thinking about cheese
#sensualbaseball enthusiast
“VERY ILLANNOYING”
Retire #27
(he/him)
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social Collector of shares | Value investor at hearth | Purveyor of fine things
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so”
https://mrmarketmiscalculates.substack.com/
Bob Mehr @bobmehr.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author, 'Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements.' 2X Grammy winner (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Dead Man's Pop). Reissue producer. Words for NYT, MOJO, Gannett.
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
DSA Dripped Out Baddie Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social causing problems on purpose across micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. probably eating a banh mi somewhere in chicago. The Fernando Mendoza of @chicagodsa.bsky.social
Chicago Board of Elections @chicagoelection.bsky.social Born of referenda in 1885, the Board of Election Commissioners manages all voter registrations and administers all elections in the City of Chicago.
Kori Rumore Finley @chicagorumormill.bsky.social Mom + Chicago Tribune reporter + co-author, HE HAD IT COMING: 4 MURDEROUS WOMEN ... .
📬: http://bit.ly/3rr2hIw
https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/kori-rumore/
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Mayor of Greater Chicagoland @thedazzlingone.bsky.social Ashley! South side bardbarian librarian. Hot toddy evangelist. Scruffy lookin' nerf herder/LLAP. Your gaucho amiga. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this. she/her. Profile pic by @arideo
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Pieter Montoulieu @montoulieu.dev Senior Product Engineer at Bluesky.
Into web/gamedev, spatial computing, ML, retro gaming, and shredding guitar.
@brickster.at @aetheros.computer @beaconbits.app @nimbus.vision
Aether OS @aetheros.computer A cyberpunk web OS built natively for the AT Protocol. 42+ interconnected apps spanning social, productivity, creation and games.
aetheros.computer
Alice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com Mad Scientist and Necromancer, she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes
used to be called Foone, before the war
peepeepoopoo @deepdishenjoyer.bsky.social i have approximate knowledge of many things
chaotic neutral
Boston, MA
VoidZero @voidzero.dev The JavaScript Tooling Company
Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer The cloud you own. https://oxide.computer/bio
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Sarah M @lore.house Mom of 4, Christian, opera singer, literature nerd. Technical program manager at NBCU.
I bake bread. (And other things.)
Digitizing and translating Old English texts
Books, music, Germanic language
lore.house
lorehord.com
PFP by @mgcoco.bsky.social
mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca baseball freak, musician, knitter, powerlifter, book enjoyer, software engineer. 20% of @survivalclubtheband.com. mastodon: @ruhee@phire.place. she/her 🍉
Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for WCPT820
Adriana Cardona @adrianacardmag.bsky.social I'm a Colombian journalist based in Chicago and I cover immigration for WBEZ 91.5FM. https://www.wbez.org/author/adriana-cardona-maguigad
H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org writer @protos.com co-host @cryptocriticscorner.com
“Under promise, under deliver”
lake effect kid @mattenloe.bsky.social what is law, really // opinions are my own // he/him
chicago, law, politics, games, beer, etc
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com A history podcast by @PaulMMCooper.com looking at a different collapsed society each episode.
fallofcivilizationspodcast.com
Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social Wall Street editor at The Economist, co-host of our Money Talks podcast.
DEVO @we-r-devo.bsky.social Chicago. Hot dogs. Pizza.
Devolution is real.
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own. https://sarah.dev
Distinguished Engineer @ Google, Chrome
Formerly Google Core Infrastructure
Formerly Vue Core •
Frontend Masters teacher •
O'Reilly Author •
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://github.com/sdras
Orual @nonbinary.computer Person who does electrical, computer, and music things.
Mother of machines.
they/she/it
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Your Friend Michael @michaelpg.bsky.social We could be doing so much better than this.
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." -Joe Biden, who never actually wanted people to hold him to that ...
AapoAlas @aapoalas.trynova.dev Nova JavaScript engine developer and OSS contributor by day and night. Avid choir singer. He/him.
Give me data-oriented design or else (I will cry).
https://trynova.dev/
Sludge @sludge.bsky.social A non-partisan, independent news outlet exposing the moneyed interests that control U.S. politics.
Get our newsletter: https://readsludge.com/
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Emily Fox @abstractcow.bsky.social Teaching CS theory and algorithms at UIUC. Formerly UTD. Wife and mother. Huge math and programming languages nerd. I play RPGs, metroidvanias, and puzzle games. She/they. 🏳️⚧️. AuDHD.
Patrick Gilsenan for 32nd Ward @patgilsenan.bsky.social Candidate for 32nd Ward Alderperson
patrickfor32.com
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social Musician, Composer, Fool
Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social How many forward rolls could you do in an emergency
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social Jersey til I die. Writer, political consultant, and lawyer for hire. End corruption. Tax the rich. Rahway. primaryschool.ghost.io / buymeacoffee.com/primaryschool
john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social 📷 @ Chicago Tribune
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http://www.jkimpictures.net
brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social Lady about town on a bike.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social Opened at gunpoint in a Lady Footlocker. Trombonist, composer, bandleader (The Great Long Meadow Fire, True East, Store Hours). Bluesky’s resident Fun Tsar. Brooklyn, NY. he/him.
https://linktr.ee/Danlehner- Z @zwrex.bsky.social @zwrex.bsky.social
Eric Wastl @was.tl Created http://adventofcode.com, http://compute-cost.com, http://anoik.is, http://was.tl/projects/; Principal Architect at https://acvauctions.com
jae holzman @jael.bsky.social hi, i write about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing.