Eliza Doolittle Day (May 20) @eliza.day Conversations big tech doesn't want people having / Because we all want to scream
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at Ada's Technical Books, Seattle, WA
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
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Chris Messina @chrismessina.me 😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
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🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
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tech blah blah
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probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com Editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. Formerly SF Bureau Chief at Buzzfeed News. Formerly Wired. Formerly @mat on twitter. Discos in Frisco
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Senior Director of Technology at https://propublica.org. I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
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Jason Snell @snell.zone I write about computers at @sixcolors.com and podcast about lots of stuff at @theincomparable.com and @relay.fm. In the words of Ken Jennings, a "strong player."
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ph.D. Previously at Nature Methods. @rita_strack on the place formerly known as twitter.
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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.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
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Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com Developer of sorts at @webdevs.firefox.com, but this is my personal account. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
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DevRel @ GitHub. Past: Google DeepMind. Lover of OSS, media, tech and pop culture. Journalist (Mashable, Gizmodo) turned developer. I host podcasts and videos.
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Wes Bos @wesbos.com Fullstack Dev ❯ JS⚛ CSS Node ❯ JavaScript30.com ❯ wesbos.com/courses ❯ 🔥 Tips ❯ Podcast @syntax.fm
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I like to explore and teach web dev topics.
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; @lexicon.garden @lexicon.community @ohcraphey.app
Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social Opinions my own.
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