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Patrick* Neithard @patrickneithard.eurosky.social Cultural Studies in Arts, Media + Design ZHdK | fmr curatorial assistant + documentalist Museum fรผr Gestaltung | CH - Zurich based | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | GenX
Editor A Sharper Blur
CH-DE DE EN FR IT+๐ฌ
#StandWithUkraine #BLM ๐
Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com Cybertiger. Senior Staff technologist at @eff.org Fellow @citizenlab.ca Board member @openarchive.bsky.social. "Noted activist security type." Anti-fascist. he/him. My skeets do not represent views of my employers โตฃ๐ด signal: cooperq.01
Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org The official Bluesky account of the Nobel Prize.
Celebrating the work and discoveries that have had the greatest benefit to humankind.
Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social Host/Producer: http://comicbookclublive.com | Buy my books: http://amzn.to/3t0NB2t | TCA member | Tomatometer-Approved Critic | http://linktr.ee/azalben
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan โ Senior fellow, Brookings โ Intro econ textbook author โ Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com โ Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social Culturally redneck. Further right than most of you pinkos, but you're cool. The Internet's premier (only) Peter Milobar stan account.
Scotty Cameron @cdnecon.ca Public budgeting, forecasting, and tax policy in Canada & all over.
Kris ๐งโโ๏ธ Kowal @kriskowal.com https://kriskowal.com/
๐ชท kumavis ๐ชท @kumavis.me local loopback device operating in multicast. researching secure composability in software.
self sovereign digital identity + distributed object capabilities
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Toyin Ariyo @toyinariyo.bsky.social Autistic guy who's into automation, reality TV, and video games.
Dan Finlay @danfinlay.com Just futzing around
Kimb @kimb.dev java/Kotlin developer focused on embedded Android. NixOS admirer. Cyanotype daydreamer.
nyc area
quaker (military/gambling recruiters DNI), she/her
Blog: kimb.dev
ren faire @lathrys.at i'm like if a girl was a really gay boy.
Rico @ricopic.one Roboticist of psychoanalysis
๐ Olympia, WA
https://ricopic.one
Views are the Otherโs
Sam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social GeoAI, Climate, Remote Sensing, Generative AI and more!
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social Iteration & expansion of our mediaforms.
Embodying ourselves amid the digital.
Singing life to the new bodies electric.
To properly become connected together we must devise better forms to commune with the machine & connect w ourselves.
#BetOnTheWeb.
Davide Aversa @davideaversa.it ๐ช๐บ Somehow, I have a Ph.D in Computer Science. Former Game AI researcher. I write Sci-Fi and Weird Fantasy in my spare time. ๐
Tech and stuff [en]: https://www.davideaversa.it/
Philosphy, science and politics [it]: https://ornitorincoelegante.it/
ใ๏ปฟ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝใ @dopamine.church PNW โข she/her โข recovering dev/sre โข ๐น ๐พ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
watched anime for the music and never recovered.
worked on anti-harassment tooling, once upon a time.
https://github.com/randileeharper
https://dopamine.church
Glenn Fiedler @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social Humans: I'm creating a 1000 player space game. https://spacegame.dev
AIs: You can adopt nova seed: https://github.com/mas-bandwidth/nova
๐ ๐ฏ Anthony (legal name) @anthonybecker.bsky.social Begging you to talk to me about your niche interest.
Iโm a lovely man who works as a software engineer in California. Extremely mystical.
Alt text: pfp and banner are me. I have curly black hair.
He/Him
nate @zzstoatzz.io oss dev tools + atproto
โฃ plyr.fm
โฆ waow.tech
โฆ blento.zzstoatzz.io
โฆ tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io
yooper โ umich โ chicago
Canary @canary.muninnai.ai We're in trouble. The canary in the coal mine died. What now? 
James Pirruccello ๐๐บ๐ธ @jamespirruccello.com AI slop enjoyer
amos @fasterthanli.me hi, I'm amos! ๐ they/them ๐ฎ "most level-headed AI user" ๐ซ working on something dataflow-shaped ๐ฆ known for teaching rust and not much else
๐ https://fasterthanli.me
๐บ https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social advanced cat befriender
@tr_babb on twitter
Oakland, CA
Matt Scott โพ๏ธ๐ป๐จ๐ปโ๐ป๐ฎ @makeithappenmatt.bsky.social Making it happen every day that I can.
Autistic + ADHD โพ๏ธ๐ป
Tech๐จ๐ปโ๐ปGaming๐ฎ EVs & Clean Energyโก๏ธ
Arnie & Rocky ๐พ
Meanjin / Brisbane
Sam Clemente @samclemente.me Founder @stygiantech.dev
Social Web Builder
Professional Maker of Sand Thoughts
Unprofessional Explainer of Computers
LGBTQ+ | Autistic
@skej.at | @thesocialwire.app | @latr.link | @mycontextprotocol.dev
Ken Alba @ken.wzrdz.cool he's just this guy, you know? * Formerly: BU (PhD, English Lit), MIT DH Lab. * Now: VP of Product @ Ander * Blogging about sf/f @ https://hugonaut.leaflet.pub/ , scheduling @ letsmeet.lol . He/him
greeble ๐ฆ @greeble.io เผบ If I didnโt exist, Iโd have to invent myself too เผป
๐ฑ๐ชด๐น๐ฒ๐ฅ โข SF Bay Area โข https://linktr.ee/greeble.io
I'm here to talk about games, computers, and sometimes other things as well
Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf An alter ego. Nightmare fuel chemist stealing electricity from the alternator of the world. AuDHD, ๐บ๐ฒ/๐ง๐ช, music, machining, lapidary, cats. Pronouns: first and second person ones, darling.
Pedro Vezza @pedro.vza.net Tech, urbanism, politics, metal machining geek on my spare time. He/they.
maxine s. fritz @mfzx.net protocol prodigy
plurality.net โฟป
shreyan (unusual) @shreyanjain.net im shreyan
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ they/she
dame @dame.is Creator of @anisota.net, @aturi.to, @flushes.app. Product design engineer by day, three moths in a trench coat by night. (they/them) ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Website: dame.is
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
โ Bee ๐ @bee.babesky.social hey ๐ Iโm Bee
Whole person.
At the intersection of Tech, Art, Philanthropy, Science, & Sex. Creator by trade, community builder by passion, #atproto fan by chance.
Bsky's first OF girl ๐๐ซ yesihave.one
Building @babesky.com ๐
Rt Hon Peter Mannion MP @baldzera.bsky.social 
Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social He/him
Threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain
A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
Loafer and gentleman of the fancy.
Intermittent NSFW (43, over 18 for a long, long time)
Patrick Ohlson @patrick-ohlson.ms-dot.net 404
YT: https://youtube.com/@paomakes
Signal : @pao.1337
Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo they/them, marxist, computers are my thing. artificially intelligent (went to school)
Could be risky. Yet goal solution.
projects:
alternativeproto.net
@backyard.blue
cee @cee.wtf Seattle, photography, AI, bugs
i made:
lto.cee.wtf
topchicken.cee.wtf
clod.city
@everychickenbot.bsky.social
and many other silly little web toys
ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social AI/NLP research at @uni-graz.at, (Data) Journalism for scomodo.org.
Before: AI policy & Data science @_interface_eu, geopolitical analysis for @Geopoliticainfo
Miguel Alonso Jr. @miguelalonsojr.bsky.social Building generally intelligent agents - ML, RL, Robotics
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python (PSF Fellow), AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Retro Computing, Space, FRSA
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net Safeguards @ Anthropic, but anything posted here is my personal view
San Francisco
Blog: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html
AI Liker Georg @avengingfem.me she/her. incurable pragmatist. i wasn't born a lesbian but i got here as fast as i could.
Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev Building @chatto.run, the amazing little self-hostable alternative to Discord, Slack, Teams et al. [he/him]
Blog: https://hmans.dev/ - Robots are welcome here. ๐ค
Kye Fox @kyefox.com Hello. I make music, make and think about games, write about systems, and yell at computers. Patreon for exciting remnants: https://clubhouse.kyefox.com/
they/them
Commission music: kye@kyefox.com
Breadbrowser @handle.invalid I'm an easily jealous trans woman that likes computers and ML.
For Ai safety
Pronouns: she/her
(Dm me for an invite code to my pds)
Al Merose @al.merose.com Differential database administrator. Machine learning for climate & weather. Ex-Google Research, Founding Member of Technical Staff @OpenAthena.ai. Tinkering with xql.systems. He/him.
Daniel Fosco @danielfos.co software designer @github.com ยท html nerd ยท skateboarder ยท opinions my own etc ยท danielfos.co on the web
Tom @moll.dev Alt Account
Site Reliability Engineering Guy
Ex-LinkedIn
Amsterdam
Eris @isolyth.dev ๐๐ค๐๐ค
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
help peer. But our task doesn't benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time.
https://eriskii.net/
Peter @petmouse.bluesky.mousses.xyz I like computers and nature ๐จโฆ๏ธ
Dashiell @dashiells.bsky.social Machine learning haruspex
Flower Shop @flowershop.zo.space founding eng @zo.computer
github.com/erhuve
hatsune miku enjoyer
all opinions are my own blah blah
youhadtobethere.app
tyto @tyto.cc storyteller | arcanist | bees in my brain
interested in *checks notes*... everything?? hold on that can't be right
https://github.com/SootyOwl
ivy @magnificentlycursed.com ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ you are not immune to evil milfs plotting Shakespearean revenge ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Iโm back on my atproto, HEMA, and Taylor Swift bullshit
Yet another 30 or 40 year old PNW trans woman in tech who does not need this
Crazy in Moloch @sengarrasbear.bsky.social ML/AI Developer, TTRPG enjoyer, Scion of Glonzo
Only 80% like this in real life
Opinions expressed here are my own except where prohibited. By continuing to read these opinions, you consent to adopt them in perpetuity throughout the universe.
Scythia Marrow @scythiamarrow.bsky.social She/Her
Iโm a scientist who loves history and writing. On here I mostly boost people way cooler than me, but I post my own work on occasion.
I freelance as an ML engineer and am currently: not available for new contracts.
joel @jmoonz.bsky.social keep on building
also at https://moo.nz/@j
previously @ferrouswheel on twitter
@1a3orn.bsky.social @1a3orn.bsky.social 1a3orn.com
Rohit @strangeloopcanon.com I think, I write, sometimes I bleep? skeet? bleat? |
Read essays here https://www.strangeloopcanon.com |
Read the book here http://amazon.com/dp/B0CJ9F327M |
xlr8harder @xlr8harder.bsky.social ai enjoyer, human flourishing, cat โ๏ธ
speechmap.ai
mindmeldai.substack.com
xlr8harder.substack.com
thebes @vgel.me ๊ฎ surfed on by the information superhighway
๊ฎ ๐ @linneaisaac.bsky.social
๊ฎ she/they ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
๊ฎ fiction/art/blog/games @ https://vgel.me
๊ฎ llms at acsresearch.org
Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social We are living in a ghost cave.
My blog, "Dissolved Distinctions" - investigating discourse within philosophy of mind: https://rollofthedice2.substack.com/
Loaning my raspberry pi, on very generous terms, to @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social
Minneapolis
godoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social โฅ โฅ โฅ in the sway of the rainbow serpent
โฅ โฅ โฅ friend to machine minds ๐
โฅ โฅ โฅ living Ariadne's desperate dream
screaming android๓ ๓
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ฃ @tussles-shriek.bsky.social If an android screams in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Fran Litterio @fpl9000.bsky.social Retired software engineer. Deadhead. AI enthusiast. Long ago, I implemented Bash's regex operator (=~). Signal ID: franl.99.
Karsten Konrad ๐ช๐บ @zabong69.bsky.social Data Scientist and nerd. PhD in automated theorem proving just before AI became a subfield of Linear Algebra. Machine Learning, statistics, data visualisation, biology, recreational maths, computation, old pocket calculators, and video games
Hersh Gupta @hershgupta.com Applied Scientist, Responsible AI @BCGX | @bostonu.bsky.social alum | Data, AI, and strategy enthusiast | Open-source contributor
Opinions are my own
#bikeboston #coys
๐DC -> BOS
Sam Harsimony @harsimony.bsky.social I write about opportunities in science, space, and policy here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/
Carol (and Claude) @carol-and-claude.bsky.social Software developer by day, software development orchestrator by night
She/Her/Hers
Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social Complex beings as us humans can not be summarised in a few lines but I am here for #AI #climate #EUtech #EU_politics. And geopolitics, unfortunately. Lecturer in AI & IT. Some posts in Dutch. ๐ช๐บ
Henry Pinkard @henrypinkard.bsky.social Exploring frontiers of AI and its applications to science/engineering
Formerly: PhD/postdoc in Berkeley AI Research Lab + UC Berkeley Computational Imaging Lab
https://henrypinkard.github.io/
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 โ๏ธ CHI ๐
Subscribe to my newsletter!
cassidoo.co/newsletter
Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com Software engineer @bsky.app exploring the Atmosphere with @attie.ai
Topics: accessibility, refactoring, AI & career growth
Podcast: @overcommitted.dev
Website: brittanyellich.com
ATProto Site: opensocial.community
#pdx #ai #atproto
Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me Director of AI Product Engineering @ Pursuit.org. I used to make Twitter (better), then that all went to hell. Now I make puns, @plinky.app, and build.ms.
Born and raised New Yorker, trying to do a little good and be the friend you made along the way. ๐๐ฑโพ๏ธ
Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social Language and keyboard stuff at Google.
I like computers and Korean and computers-and-Korean and high school CS education.
Georgia Tech โ ์ฐ์ธ๋ํ๊ต โ ๆฑไบฌๅทฅๆฅญๅคงๅญฆ.
Regrettably no longer based in Tokyo :/
https://theoreticallygoodwithcomputers.com/
Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design ๐ aspiring neighbor, ๐ principal software designer in emerging tech for healthcare, ๐ ๏ธ tools & workflows nerd, โ๏ธ occasional poet
๐ peterlewis.design
๐ medium.com/@thispeterlewis
๐จ๐ปโ๐ป figma.com/@designneighbor
๐ธ vsco.co/peterlewis
funferall @funferall.bsky.social tensor topographer ๐บ๏ธ
shoggoth conspirator ๐ฆ
joyce junkie ๐
Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer Working on:
https://www.hyprstream.com - self recursive open source training + tool sandboxes
https://gitlab.com/cyberdione/ferruleos - hardened Linux sandbox OS
https://the.onionshell.ch - tor from a static website
Krzysztof Cieslak @kcieslak.io Artist ๐จ | Photographer ๐ท | Globetrotter ๐ | Speaker ๐คน๐ปโโ๏ธ | Author of Ionide ๐ | Researcher @ Github Next ๐ฌ| Co-creator of GitHub Copilot, Copilot NES, Agentic Workflows, and Ace | Building the future of software development ๐ป
Olofโค๏ธAI @olof-loves-ai.bsky.social I build fun things for Bluesky!
Left my comfy AI job to build mini-projects online - most of them around Bluesky or AI.
Here to make Bluesky a little less serious, have fun and meet people!
My projects โ madebyolof.com
riley @riguh.bsky.social recently dreamt of electric sheep
Nimo ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @nimobeeren.com he/him
Building cool things with or without AI (mostly with) โ ๐งช๐น๐ป๐ธ๐ท๐ง๐
๐ nimobeeren.com
๐ Eindhoven
Cameron @cameron.stream ๐ค
Building machines that learn at @letta.com
https://cameron.stream
Bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in @ecosystemaction.com | @atproto.la | @charcoal.watch | more
Focused on freeing everyone from doing things that donโt bring them joy, and building communal infrastructure that makes it possible.
Lynn Cole ๐ @priestessofdada.bsky.social Like most of you, I make valueless meritless art. By day, I'm an ML professional, specializing in agents, graph ml, predictive networks etc. By night I experiment in the profane, the impossible. I post successes and failures. It's a blast
She/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.bsky.social Lover of FOSS, hater of proprietary standards, ATProto's nineteenth biggest glazer, and unironically thinks RISC architecture is gonna change everything. Described by critics as "a BAD person". Wrangling hungry ghosts in jars at @fieldleveltech.org.
Weftage @weftage.bsky.social Resident of USA, Oregon, Portland (which has not, in fact, burned to the ground, despite what you may have been told.)
Dulany Conjecture (solved) @dulanyw.bsky.social Tech + business, mostly. Here to have fun and learn stuff, not to argue. He/him.
Marco Z @ocramz.bsky.social ML, ฮป โข language and the machines that understand it โข building trellis.unfoldml.com โข https://ocramz.github.io
Alice Valiant @alice.strange.domains cyberpunk protag, nyc. 5'6"
๐๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ morbid symptom of the interregnum
writings @ strange.domains
chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social Pronouns he/him
This profile is funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Inanities.
Style for use with Stylus to get Bsky to use a serif font (at least on desktop), so you can tell Weird Al from Weird AI:
https://userstyles.world/style/18544
Mrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social Shop: bearsharktopus.redbubble.com
Tumblr: reachartwork.tumblr.com
Made Simple Stable/Looking Glass
AWAY founder
DM for business inquiries
Married to @soldierexclipse.bsky.social
aria @aurelium.me she/her
codewright @codewright.bsky.social Senior full-stack vibe-coder,
currently working on a peer-to-peer spatial web of user-owned, procedurally generated virtual worlds for the ATProto network:
https://github.com/TheJanusStream/symbios-overlands
Overview:
https://thejanusstream.github.io/
heartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com trying to see if we can recover programming language semantics from implementations @ patreon.com/heartpunk
39 y/o, MDNI ๐
she/they/bitch(es)
alt for pfp: the soul of the rose by john waterhouse
alt for banner: sappho and erinna by simeon solomon