Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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signal: marisakabas.04
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
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Mark @arkmashton.bsky.social "[O]f all the emotions – and indifference, too, because even indifference is an emotion of a sort – only love sees the unveiled truth."
– Gene Wolfe, Return to the Whorl
https://prayercards.online
Cassidy @cassidoo.co Making memes, dreams, & software!
Sr. Director of Dev Advocacy at GitHub. Married to a dweeb and mom to a nerdy toddler + baby combo. She/Her ✝️ CHI 🏠
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cori nakamura lin @cori-lin.bsky.social visual artist + aspiring cultural worker in chicago
organizing with Nikkei Uprising | gigging at @onibaba-studio.bsky.social | proud descendant of multiple east asian islands | humble neighbor of the great lakes |
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc
Toscha @poemless.bsky.social Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org Open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
https://grapheneos.org/
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social Except the serious things, don’t take life too seriously. Chicago journalist. Formerly The People’s Fabric.
Co-founder @UnraveledPress.com.
Got a tip? Signal is @sheld.01. Email:steve@unraveledpress.com
Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social Featuring resistance efforts, big and small. Scroll-worthy.
Hope. Humor. Resources.
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
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Leo Laporte @leolaporte.me Podcaster, tech pundit. Founder TWiT podcast network.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
👩💻 paris.nyc
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
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
Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
proponent of life on earth 🐝
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
Germ Network @germnetwork.com Drop into a private conversation, faster.
End-to-end encrypted DMs right from your Bluesky/Blacksky/atproto handle.
Start here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germ-dm/id6446882771
Learn: germnetwork.com/blog
Find out: germnetwork.com/android-waitlist
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social Georgetown University Security Studies Program. Taiwan's defense and military history, U.S.-Taiwan relations. Detroit Tigers watcher.
中文/上海话/ENG/FR
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/
joshua stein @jcs.org Hello, cyberpals. I make @pushover.net and old Macintosh stuff and sometimes OpenBSD stuff for you and me.
Projects here: @klud.ge | @deskto.ps
Oak Park, Illinois
Fediverse: @jcs@jcs.org
World Wide Web: jcs.org
Ev @evhead.bsky.social Artist
Boris Cherny @bcherny.bsky.social
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Utkarsh Gupta @utkarshgupta137.bsky.social
Jason Fried @jasonfried.bsky.social Founder & (sometimes) CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. Email me at jason@hey.com.
Freddy @DEFCON @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @realsexycyborg.bsky.social China's #1 Tech & DIY YouTuber
Open Source, 3D Printing & Digital Fabrication, Automation, Infosec
1/18th synthetic
'It's all about merit until merit has tits'
Shenzhen, China
youtube.com/c/SexyCyborg
Dan Goodin @dangoodin.bsky.social Cybersecurity Reporter, Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/author/dan-goodin/ Hungry for tips. Text me on Signal: DanArs.82. "The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It’s run by little 1s and 0s, little bits of data."
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
Evan loves Worf @esjesjesj.bsky.social Stupid dumbass baby idiot esjesjesj or eeesssjjj on Twitter
Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social CTO @ Amazon
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Little Squirrel Yarn @littlesquirrelyarn.bsky.social Knitter and indie-dyer in Colorado. 🐿️
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨
https://openvibe.social
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Jesse Kriss @jklabs.net
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
Duncan Davidson @duncan.dev Software developer and engineering leader. Ex-[Shopify, Microsoft for Startups, Wunderlist, JavaSoft,...]
Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social Born Thomas (Elmer Addison) Pain - July 4th, 1976. Lover of democracy.
Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com Leading expert
https://mcfunley.com
https://dotclub.club
https://primary.every.democrat
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Luke Shepard @lukeshepard.bsky.social Education, robotics and AI developments, and ... book reviews? Worked at facebook, amazon, espark, tempus.
Cam Cavers @reactionlab.com UX designer/dev geek in Vancouver Canada. 日本語も🆗! AKA camcavers from the place formerly known as twitter.
Coda @codahale.com Standing athwart history, yelling Yes Daddy
Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social I work in drug development but my full time job is trying to survive.
Grace @kizunanyc.com
Kenji Kushida @kenjikushida.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Global Japan, Innovative Japan | Japan - Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative (JSV) | Startup Japan | Silicon Valley Revisited
Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social Grandmother, gardener, hiker, Nebula & Locus Award-winning science fiction author. @home on Maui. Website: https://mythicisland.com/
#NoKings
Johannes @johko.bsky.social Data Scientist | Computer Vision Engineer | AI Educator | Hugging Face Fellow 🤗 // johko.github.io //
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
merve @merve.bsky.social proud mediterrenean 🧿 open-sourceress at hugging face 🤗 multimodality, zero-shot vision, vision language models, transformers
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future!
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social ✨ Keep it simple, make it scale. AI should be about empowering users and building understanding. 👩💻 AI Developer Experience @ Google DeepMind, ex-Github, ex-Google
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Radamés Ajna @ras.bsky.social ML Engineering @adobe
Previously: @huggingface
Data Visualization Enthusiast | Latent Space Explorer
Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/Nwr7).
Also blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.
loss 🇮🇱💪 @untitled01ipynb.bsky.social forget this i didn’t know you can share block lists here. call me when you fixed this
Maria Khalusova @mariak.bsky.social Always growing, she/her, RAG builder, LLM whisperer, tech generalist
pngwn @pngwn.at Penguin of great renown.
The penguin revolution is nigh, only the feathered and the tuxedoed will be spared.
Except for seagulls, they can get fucked.
https://pngwn.at
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social 💥 Founder & CEO @explosion.ai
👩💻 Developing spacy.io + prodi.gy + beta.ellf.ai
🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow
⚡ Hacking @feministai.party
🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP
💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani
🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines
💥 explosion.ai
🌎 ines.io
Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com Philosopher in tech, currently at Mistral AI. Doctor of talking machines, now teaching them good behavior.
Julien Chaumond @julien-c.hf.co I build tools that propel communities forward
Zach Mueller @muellerzr.bsky.social Technical Lead on Accelerate @ Hugging Face | Passionate about Open Source | https://muellerzr.github.io
Nate Raw @raw.bsky.social ML hacker
https://github.com/nateraw
Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero.bsky.social Llama Farmer
Ex CLO Hugging Face, Xoogler
Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social Machine Learning Librarian at @hf.co
Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social Prefer common sense over hype. Employed at @marimo.io, known for calmcode.io and koaning.io. Also working on remember.cards these days.
Tanishq Mathew Abraham @iscienceluvr.bsky.social PhD at 19 |
Founder and CEO at @MedARC_AI |
Research Director at @StabilityAI |
@kaggle Notebooks GM |
Biomed. engineer @ 14 |
TEDx talk➡https://bit.ly/3tpAuan
Matthew Honnibal @honnibal.bsky.social Computational linguist from Sydney and Berlin.
Author of the spacy.io NLP tools
Founder and CTO @explosion.ai
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/honnibal
Blog: honnibal.dev
:probabl. @probabl.ai Own Your Data Science
https://probabl.ai
vb @reach-vb.hf.co GPU Poor @ Hugging Face | F1 fan
Philip Vollet @philipvollet.bsky.social Open source influencer skeeting about machine learning and data science projects. Head of Developer Growth at Weaviate.
Daniel Vila @dvilasuero.hf.co Everything datasets and human feedback for AI at Hugging Face.
Prev: co-founder and CEO of Argilla (acquired by Hugging Face)