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Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social Founder & Editor, @pathfounders.bsky.social | Formerly @TechCrunch | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | Pathfounders.com | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Speaker / Moderator | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets | (MBE)
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Molly Wright Steenson @maximolly.bsky.social Writer, historian of AI & architecture, friend of dogs. President & CEO of the American Swedish Institute. Girlwonder. 
Norman Lear Center @learcenter.bsky.social Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society. Based at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
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.
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
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
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Nicole Ellison @nellison.bsky.social I study technology and relationships, most recently in the algorithmic/AI space. Iโm the Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information.
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Taryn OโNeill @tarynoneill.bsky.social Filmmaker. Futurist. Impact Creative
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Danny @dannygabai.bsky.social Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. . .
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
Laughing Squid @laughingsquid.com a daily dose of unique and curious things curated by @scottbeale.xyz
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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
Iain Lee @iainlee.com Counselling - hello@iainleecounselling.com
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Steve Bridger @stevebridger.bsky.social Independent Councillor for Yatton ward and Chair, Transport, Climate and Communities Policy & Scrutiny Panel. Former Leader, North Somerset Council. Also Community @cipd.bsky.social
Ian Burrell @iburrell.bsky.social Journalism, reggae, football, clothes. Columnist: The i paper, Writes: Bloomberg, Reuters, Marketing Week. Speech coach: One Young World. Book: Rodiganโs Reggae
Andrew Keen @ajkeen.bsky.social https://keenon.substack.com/
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Elspeth Eastman @elspeth.bsky.social voice actor, weightlifter, budding cellist, and streamer ๐ obsessed with pickles, fueled by indie games and good coffee. mama to Cleo!
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Judith Townend @jtownend.bsky.social Sussex-based socio-legal researcher / Reader in Digital Society & Justice. media and information access and governance / public interest journalism / access to justice / social justice / sanctuary and migration rights
Whitney Museum @whitney.org The Whitney is your home for American art.
the Design Museum @designmuseum.bsky.social The world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form.
Michael J @mjlambie.bsky.social 
Kevin Winston @kevinwinston.bsky.social Los Angeles entertainment and tech
Mike Prasad @mikeprasad.bsky.social Creating community for a better future.
Kevin Kelly @kevinkelly.bsky.social Senior Maverick, Wired. Author, maker, artist, father. Cool tool maven, true film buff, and fan of Asia. Radical optimist.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Intellagirl PhD @intellagirl.bsky.social Academic, Director of Learning Technology at Kelley Business School at IU, Hoosier, mom, podcaster, maker, Halloween fanatic. Cohost of Mystery Maniacs podcast. 
Amy Jo Kim @amyjokim.bsky.social Game Designer & Startup Coach prev. Rock Band, The Sims, Netflix, Covet Fashion. I deconstruct breakout hits to help you find PMF. Free resources here ๐
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dsearls @dsearls.bsky.social Journalist, author, blogger, podcaster, photographer, farting-arounder
Joi Ito @joi.ito.com 
scottโก๏ธmccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comicsโฆ mostlyโฆ Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
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Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social Videogames: ULTIMA ONLINE, STAR WARS GALAXIES, METAPLACE, STARS REACH (coming soon!), among others. Tabletop: WADDLE. Books: THEORY OF FUN, POSTMORTEMS, SUNDAY POEMS. Music: AFTER THE FLOOD. Also at @raphkoster@mastodon.gamedev.place
Daniel Terdiman @greeterdan.bsky.social Sr. Editorial Writer. Was: Writer/Editor @roblox @Meta Reality Labs, Editorial dir. @thisisoutcast, Senior Writer @fastcompany, @cnet, writer @wired. @ColumbiaJourn MS. Cats. Burning Man. Planes. GSW. #BLM Always With Her. And her! Team Blue. Pro voting.
Knight Foundation @knightfoundation.org 
Nicole Lazzaro ๐ฐ ๐น๏ธ โ๐ @nicolelazzaro.bsky.social XR Hall of Fame | Designed 1st iPhone Game | 4 Keys 2 Fun. Unlocking human potential through play. Developer of Follow the White Rabbit Tales an XR mystery adventure you play in the real world with your real friends. Now soft launched on ๐ Vision Pro!
Mark Deuze @markdeuze.bsky.social ๐จโ๐ Professor Media Studies, U of Amsterdam
๐ธbass: Skinflower; new music at Bandcamp
๐ latest books: Life in Media (MIT Press), Happiness in Journalism (Routledge)
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Stevie J Jones @stevejones.music Producer, composer, musician: AIR, Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, Craig Armstrong, Bryan Ferry, David Byrne etc. I made the Star Wars x Withnail & I mashups. Synth & guitar fiend
stevejones.music | youtube.com/@stevie_j_jones- K Kittychix @kittychix.bsky.social
@pd20.bsky.social @pd20.bsky.social 
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. 
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
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio ๐ @notetoself.studio
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from โKill Switchโ, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
phillip torrone @ptorrone.bsky.social dad ยท ๐บ๐ธ nyc ๐ฝ ยท i take things apart and write what's inside ยท @adafruit ยท founder @hackaday ยท ex @make @engadget @popsci @2600 email: pt@braincraft.com
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
Bonnie Burton โ๏ธ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social ๐ง๐ป WRITER: Books, Comics, TV, Games, Crafts, News & Podcasts. Clients: Lucasfilm, Disney, Microsoft, Penguin Random House, Hunt A Killer Games, CBS, NBC
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Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
iJustine @ijustine.bsky.social I love my dog and new tech
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Pixelh8 @pixelh8.bsky.social 47, BAFTA winning, composer, Mercury Prize nominated artist, published academic writer, screen actor, techno-philanthropist aka Pixelh8.
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Geek Girl Diva @geekgirldiva.bsky.social Unrepentant geek girl. Former โinfluencerโ, recovering optimist. If thereโs a job in the industry, Iโve done it at some point. I still donโt know what I wanna be when I grow up. 
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme ๐
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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social She/her. Recent transplant to NJ from Chicago.
"what we pay attention to grows." - adrienne maree brown
Matt Webb ๐ธ๐ผ๐ธ @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Paul Saffo @psaffo.bsky.social Futurist with a past
www.saffo.com
Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn.bsky.social Kobo CEO with zero chill. Chaotic good, anti-fascist, bi-coastal Canadian bookseller ereader-purveyor - unsupervised & unofficial
https://www.michaeltamblyn.com
Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Brad Stone @bradstone.bsky.social Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, author of The Everything Store, The Upstarts and Amazon Unbound. Dad. Suffering Cleveland sports fan.
Julia Allison @juliaallison.bsky.social 
Jean-Luc Raymond @jeanlucr.bsky.social โ๏ธ #Journaliste Tech pour Le Dauphinรฉ Libรฉrรฉ & Les Clรฉs du Digital & pigiste / #AI #Cyber #Deeptech #Ecommerce #HealthTech #PetTech / Prod Audio ๐ฑDigital marketing, Brand content senior consulting๐Paris ๐Enseignant CELSA ๐ฉ hello@jeanlucraymond.fr
Kevin Moore @kevmoo.com Product manager for @dart.dev and @flutter.dev web tech @ Google. Proud dad of three. Reality-based liberal. https://kevmoo.com (he/him)
Gil Friend - Sustainability OG @gpfriend.bsky.social Advisor. Board member. Coach. Speaker.
I post about #sustainability, #climate, #strategy, #policy, #employeeOwnership.
And what it might be like if we if we did businessโ& everything elseโas though we actually belong to the living world.
Because we do. 
Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own. NYCer. https://aramzs.nexus/
@eveblossom.bsky.social @eveblossom.bsky.social 
Rachel Sklar @rachelsklar.bsky.social Writer / entrepreneur / single mom
Podcast: Hi, Smart Friend!
Liz Lawley @mamamusings.bsky.social 
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Canโt Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
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David Greenman @greenestman.bsky.social 
Shawna Thomas @shawnat.bsky.social CBS Mornings' "big cheese boss" Formerly of Quibi, VICE, and NBC News. Links, likes, shares aren't endorsements. JFGI. TV isn't magic. I made an A- in Evil.
Bernie Su @berniesu.bsky.social 3x Emmy Winning Writer, Director, Producer
Shira Lazar @shiralazar.bsky.social Digital culture + personal growth are my jam!
Founder/CEO whatstrending.com
#Creators4MentalHealth
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Chris @antimega.bsky.social art and courgettes ๐
https://www.anti-mega.com
Sarah Dobbs @sarahdobbs.bsky.social Going on the computer professionally (freelance writing/social media/podcasting).
she/her
https://www.sarahdobbs.com/
Megan ๐ @megnut.bsky.social ๐ If you give a man a rat, you satisfy his rat desire
she/her | โข
art feed: https://tinyurl.com/48yskpae
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.
Ed Dowding @eddowding.com Activist innovator.
Talks about #carbonremoval, #sequestration, #negativeemissions, and #businessinnovation- L @lalalola.bsky.social @lalalola.bsky.social
Ben Cerveny @neb.me President, Foundation for Public Code