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Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
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Daniel Suarez @daniel-suarez.com NYT Bestselling Author. Writes high-tech / sci-fi thrillers: Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, Influx, Change Agent, Delta-v & Critical Mass (Δv Book2).
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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Peter Zeihan @peterzeihan.bsky.social Geopolitical strategist, speaker, author.
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Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social Partner at Changeist.com
Futures adjacent
Project Lead: https://www.10fconsortium.org/
Contributing Editor: “How to Future” (2020)
Author: “Future Cultures” (2023)
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Cities of Things foundation @citiesofthings.org In Cities of Things, we focus on the evolving relationship with intelligent things. We are shaping the future of our cities with intelligent things.
Find us Citiesofthings.org and Hoodbot.net
Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social We unite, organize, and mobilize progressive forces. Join us. https://progressive.international/
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Volt Europa @volteuropa.org 🇪🇺 United States of Europe now! Building a federal, green, progressive Europe.
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Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Nicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social Co-Founder of Berggruen Institute, Noema Mag
Co-author of #RenovatingDemocracy (http://amzn.to/2CBhxJ3)
A believer that ideas can make a better world. #IdeasMatter
www.nicolasberggruen.com
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
BIT @bitglobal.bsky.social BIT is a global research and innovation consultancy. We are part of Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. bi.team/newsletter/
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future! 
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Renew Europe @reneweurope.bsky.social We are the pro-European political group in the
European Parliament!
Our mission? to Renew Europe! 🇪🇺
Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social President of @eminternational.bsky.social. #IAmEuropean🇪🇺
https://www.europeanmovement.eu/ - M Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/martin-sandbu
Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com
Gilles Babinet @babgil.bsky.social Président de la mission café IA
8 startups, 5 exits et désormais 6 livres.
Sur Linkedin désormais https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillesbabinet/
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
Unfold @unfold.be Founded 2002 by Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen - Multidisciplinary Studio in Antwerp (B) - exploring Material Culture in a Digital Age - 3D Printing Ceramics since 2009 - Atlas of Lost Finds
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
On with Kara Swisher @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social Official BlueSky for the On with Kara Swisher podcast
Joni Karjalainen @jonikarjalainen.bsky.social Researcher at Finland Futures Research Centre | Adviser on European Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) scenario process
#energyinfrastructure #foresight #transformation
Riet Jeurissen @rietjeurissen.bsky.social 
Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social Official Bluesky for the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Part of New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
donato ricci @dntrcc.bsky.social DNTCPTLZ
👷♂️ design research lead @medialab-scpo.bsky.social
👨🔬 Ecologies of LLM Practices⋰Styles of Moderations⋰Future-OBS⋰ShapingAI⋰AIgoglitch
👨🏫 SPEAP⋰IDMAIS⋰EMI
Wim Wouters @wimwouters.bsky.social When Story meets Technology
#AR #VR #XR GAMEDEV
www.WimWouters.com
PoppinsWayne.com
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social Hier lees je verhalen van historici over hun onderzoek. Dit is een wisselaccount. Dus steeds een nieuwe historicus en nieuw onderwerp.
Eind augustus zijn we weer terug met nieuwe verhalen!
Ook posten? Stuur een berichtje naar: @annepetterson.bsky.social
Tony Fadell @tfadell.bsky.social iPod, iPhone, Nest, Investor (Build Collective)
NYT, WSJ, USAToday bestselling author Build
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Paul Metz @paulemetz.bsky.social Activist voor de beschaving, dus ook alle wetenschappen en de planeet. Motto: de vervuiler betaalt.
Activist for civilization, this includes all sciences and our planet. Motto: the polluter pays.
#clubofrome, #piketty, #amitavghosh, #IPCC, #peace
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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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.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Kristin Alford @kristinalford.bsky.social Futurist and Director of MOD.
Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social Educational realist, Diehard edu myth-buster, Grumpy Old Man, Emeritus Prof. Educational Psychology Open Universiteit, Guest Prof. Thomas More Uni (Belgium), owner kirschner-ED
Tim Surma @timsurma.bsky.social 
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Roope Mokka @rmokka.bsky.social general purpose large animal
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social Doer of things at Centric Lab | Dogwalker and butler to BIGGIE | Frequently having weekends ruined by Arsenal
@geoffmulgan.bsky.social @geoffmulgan.bsky.social 
Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com Prototyping ways to use health-based scientific evidence to support justice movements, surface and socialise non-western epistemologies & create language to articulate the health injustices felt by many racialised and marginalised folx.
thecentriclab.com
Claudia Chwalisz @cchwalisz.bsky.social Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext (www.demnext.org)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
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Serge de Gheldere @sergedg.bsky.social Building the business (and legal) case for decarbonization • Founder of Futureproofed, now part of Sweco, and president of Klimaatzaak • Into everything.
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
@pantopiconbe.bsky.social @pantopiconbe.bsky.social 
monika bielskyte @monikabielskyte.bsky.social Founder @protopiafutures. From SciFi to reality, prototyping science-informed, life-centric, embodied visions. Fmr Futurist in Residence @Nike.
www.monikafutures.design
GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg.bsky.social I build and buy internet companies with strong communities.
CEO of Late Checkout, host Startup Ideas Podcast
I give free startup ideas
The New School @thenewschool.bsky.social New since 1919 | http://newschool.edu
Fast Company @fastcompany.com Inspiring readers to think beyond traditional boundaries & create the future of business.
Read more: fastcompany.com
@superflux.bsky.social @superflux.bsky.social 
Experimental Pedagogies Research Group @eprg.bsky.social The EPRG at UAL is an adventurous environment where the practices and theories of creative education can be explored and developed collaboratively.
https://eprg.arts.ac.uk/
Angelo Vermeulen @angelovermeulen.bsky.social Space biologist • Complex systems engineer • Computational designer • Artist • Analog astronaut
Jan Rotmans @janrotmans.bsky.social Professor Sustainability Transitions
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind.bsky.social Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
Co-operative Futures @coopfutures.bsky.social Bespoke business consultancy and support for co-operative, mutual and community led start-up and existing businesses. Our Mission? More #Coops THE best option for people and planet.
https://linktr.ee/coopfutures
Dark Matter Labs @darkmatterlabs.org We are building options for the next economies.
https://darkmatterlabs.org/
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Prof. Peter Madden, OBE @thepmadden.bsky.social Built environment futures. Strategic foresight for urban development with vividfutures.co.uk ; Professor of Practice, Future Cities, Cardiff University; member APF, Future Matters Collective.
Love sci-fi, street art, & football: Brentford FC & BCWFC
Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social Big machines // Writer, artist, educator // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso) // Visiting Prof - UCL // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
@incognitosum.bsky.social @incognitosum.bsky.social 
Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social Neighbourhoods, community, social housing, poverty, art, film, humour, puns, photography, cycling, climate
Rowan Conway @rowanconway.bsky.social In another timeline I am a glitter MUA at festivals, writing comics as a side hustle. In this one I am teaching what I know about human centred design for intergenerational justice to the next gen. I'm thinking this one might be the dark timeline...
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Stby @stbydesignresearch.bsky.social Stby is a pioneer in design research, with studios based in London and Amsterdam, committed to driving meaningful change across the private and public sectors.
https://lnk.bio/Stby_design_research
Frederico Duarte @fredericoduarte.bsky.social design critic/curator from/in Lisbon
Guest lecturer FBAUL. Co-editor of Fabrico Próprio. Co-EIC, revista Fazer. Co-curator, Covilhã Design Triennial. Communication Coordinator Bauhaus of the Seas Sails
Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social Comparative political analyst. Populism, authoritarianism, social and political identities. Fellow @EUI_Schuman