sophie alpert @sophiebits.com you have the ability to understand things
principal engineer, react person, super gay, still masking
Keith Houston @shadycharacters.co.uk Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and now FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/).
chris wiggins @chrishwiggins.bsky.social .edu: associate professor @columbia; adviser to the dean for AI strategy, Columbia College
.org: cofounder @hackNY;
.com: tba;
books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
Kevin Clark @kevinefclark.bsky.social I do computers for mission-driven things, make theater and music. I'm probably thinking about food right now. 
Noah Brier @heyitsnoah.bsky.social Run BrXnd.ai // WhyIsThisInteresting.com // Variance.com
Brandon Boyer @brandonnn.bsky.social Professional good thing liker.
http://brandonnn.com
jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com Media strategist and producer. Culture, news, and tech nerd. Semafor, Bad Robot, CAA, Obama White House, The Verge alum. USC Marshall, NYU Gallatin grad. Recovering tweeter @jonfriedman
Christopher Adams @cxadams.com 早安/晚安
Kent Brewster @kentbrew.com Web Guy, WebMD, Yahoo!, Netflix, Pinterest, Eldera, and Coconut Wireless.
Ping me before your Kaua'i trip and I'll save you a bunch of time, money, and heartache.
If you look me up on Wikipedia you'll find an SF writer by the same name. This is also me.
Eric Ries @ericries.bsky.social Trying to change how startups are built
formerly @ericries on the bird app
New Book coming May 2026: INCORRUPTIBLE: Why Good Companies go bad... And How Great companies Stay Great
Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonuses at: http://incorruptible.co
Chris Messina @chrismessina.me 😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 App updates and snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
🚬 Non-smoker.
Francesca Mari @francescamari.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University | Also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, +
www.francescamari.com
Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong
The New York Times @nytimes.com In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
David Gutelius @dgutelius.bsky.social Intellectual mutt, making AI useful. Former SRI International, APL, ISI Foundation, Stanford, Johns Hopkins. 4x founder. Decamped to Tahoe. Here to serve.
Court Klein @courtklein.bsky.social 
@jackclarksf.bsky.social @jackclarksf.bsky.social Anthropic and Import AI. Previously OpenAI, Bloomberg, The Register. Weird futures.
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Henrik Moltke @moltke.bsky.social Independent journalist
Avery Brooks @averybrooks.bsky.social 🤷
Gabriel Sherman @gabrielsherman.bsky.social Vanity Fair special correspondent, screenwriter of THE APPRENTICE
Daniel Bekerman @danielbekerman.bsky.social Movie Producer - The Apprentice, The Witch, Endless Cookie, My Old Ass … also a person who would prefer civilization to not collapse entirely
James Cham @jamescham.bsky.social Of the San Gabriel Valley; investing for the year 2030; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders.
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social Internet Incident Librarian. Founder of the VOID. VP of the Resilience in Software Foundation
Jerry Neumann @ganeumann.bsky.social Every dog has his day
Martin Galese @mgalese.bsky.social 
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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of @designsystems.international. Author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former New York Times, O’Reilly Media and ITP NYU.
John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him. Galveston BOI. Born at 314.8 ppm CO2.
Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is design at flora.ai
brooklyn
Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com Leading applied behavioral science at scale. CXO at Oceans. Dad of Bear. mattwallaertofficehours.com. AppliedBeSci.com for "WTF is he talking about?”
An N of 1
Podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2369863
Newsletter - https://mattwallaert.substack.com/
Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social Taller than she seems on the internet. | https://www.heatherrasley.com/
Louise Macfadyen @lmacfadyen.bsky.social Design @Microsoft AI. Formerly @google @instrument
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Paul Keller @paul.eurosky.social Director of Policy at Open Future, President of the COMMUNIA association for the Public Domain. Advocate for more open, just & inclusive digital policies in 🇪🇺 & beyond. Collector of collateral knowledge, © nerd, cyclist.
Mark Belinsky @mbelinsky.bsky.social Building products for United Nations Development Programme. Son of refugees. Sometimes cycling across countries. Formerly CEO of Birdi (Acquired) & Digital Democracy.
twhid @twhid.com http://mtaa.net erstwhile net artist
http://1stdi.bs engineering
https://app.ens.domains/twhid.eth twhid.eth
✨ comments my own ✨
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
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
mary childs @marychilds.bsky.social host of Mary in America, a new podcast out now
https://www.youtube.com/@maryinamerica
Katya Rogers @katyaotm.bsky.social EP of On the Media: a radio show and podcast about all things media. 
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Peter Kafka @pkafka.bsky.social Bleep blop bloop. Talking https://link.chtbl.com/kafka typing https://www.businessinsider.com/author/peter-kafka
Noah @bedmounds.com https://links.noahkalina.com/
timoni west @timoni.bsky.social they/them. Nullius in verba.
Caroline McCarthy @carolinemccarthy.bsky.social 👩🏼🔬 - marketer + advertising ethics nerd
🎙 - did some TED talks and stuff
📍 - world traveler but based in NJ
🐱🐱🐱🐶 - minerva, freyja, hela, becky
instagram.com/caro
Andy Weissman @aweissman.bsky.social www.aweissman.com
www.usv.com
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/my-favorite-words--13
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.
Rex Sorgatz @rexsorgatz.bsky.social I like to dot-com, would you like to join me in dot-comming?
Harry Heymann @harryh.bsky.social I turn beer into software.
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
kenyatta @chee.se this feels like coming home to the real internet
Rick @rickwebb.net Good morning. Hello. How are you? - 2,000 words about nothing coming to you every week day, specifically designed to be anti-SEO, anti-social media.
https://buttondown.com/rickwebb
lhl @lhl.bsky.social Easily distracted, currently building open source AI. Living online since FidoNet
Chad Dickerson @chaddickerson.bsky.social 
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person 👋 🏳️🌈 she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Waxy.org @waxy.org Since 2002, hot links and cool takes from Andy Baio aka @andy.baio.net.
WWW: https://waxy.org/
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Mastodon: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy
Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Senior personal tech columnist @WSJ
📺 Contributor @nbcnews + @CNBC
🏆 Emmy winner, technology and family lover
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
@Freedom.press please follow https://linktr.ee/freedomofpress
@johncusack on twiiter
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store Aperiodical.net
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
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
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The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
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
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social contributing editor at Wired // contributing writer at NYT opinion // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer @newrepublic.com / author A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
👨🏻💻☕️ @hunterwalk.com Introvert IRL, Extrovert URL
Blogging forever at https://hunterwalk.com/
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to what AI is actually good for -- and also how our overestimation of its abilities can lead us astray.
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.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)