John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere.
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Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military policy, video games, and queer theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
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I did a TED talk once
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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social Eamon is the senior Washington Correspondent at CNBC, where he covers the intersection of politics and finance. He’s also the host of the recent podcast “The Crimes of Putin’s Trader,” available now on Spotify.
Sean D. Naylor @seandnaylor.bsky.social Co-founder of @thehighside.bsky.social; author of "Not a Good Day to Die" and "Relentless Strike;" previously a staff writer at Army Times, Foreign Policy and Yahoo News; other work in The New York Times and Newsweek.
Dave Aitel @daveaitel.bsky.social 
Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social Nothing much to say that hasn’t been said long ago: I’m a doofus and a terrible follow
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Valdis Krebs @valdis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy I’m all about #patterns and #emergence. #NetworkScience to find non-obvious patterns in data, #Photography to capture patterns in the wild, and improvise #Music to […]
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Andrei Soldatov @andreisoldatov.bsky.social Author of The Compatriots, The Red Web, The New Nobility, Senior Fellow at CEPA, King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, editor of http://Agentura.ru telegram: http://t.me/agenturaru
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Anthony Cormier @anthonycormier.bsky.social Investigative Reporter, Bloomberg News
Signal, SecureDrop on request. Opinions my own.
Steve Metz @stevemetz.bsky.social Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency. An unknown unknown. A plumber's son from Elk Hills WV.
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.
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Amy Zegart @amyzegart.bsky.social Stanford professor and Hoover senior fellow. Co-chair of Stanford Emerging Tech Review. I study U.S. intelligence, emerging tech, and geopolitical risk. Latest book: Spies, Lies, & Algorithms. Views are my own.
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Tim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social Author and journalist. THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century and LEGACY OF ASHES: The History of the CIA. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mission-tim-weiner?variant=43465484206114
RYP @robertyoungpelton.bsky.social Still Alive
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Carmen Medina @milouness.bsky.social Sharing what I find interesting and new even if I dont agree with it. Co-author Rebels at Work. Former CIA. Favorite topics: Collaboration, Creativity, Curiosity, Conversation, Cognition, Critical Thinking, Cosmology. Kindness. Split time Texas/Virginia 
Lewis Sage-Passant @encyclopediageopolitica.com Global Head of Intelligence @ big European corporation, Adjunct Prof in Intelligence at Sciences Po Paris. Author on private intel. Podcasting on dangerous stuff and writing about geopolitics @ EncyclopediaGeopolitica.com
@douglaslondon.bsky.social @douglaslondon.bsky.social Retired CIA Ops Officer and Chief of Station; Georgetown SFS, John Hopkins SAIS, and Author of THE RECRUITER: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Ellen Nakashima @ellenwapo.bsky.social Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
Ken Silverstein @kensilverstein1.bsky.social Investigative reporter. Read me & please subscribe @https://www.washingtonbabylondc & @NYMag, @newrepublic,
@VICE, @MailOnline, @Harpers & other fine outlets.
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Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
DrLeoStrauss @drleostrauss.bsky.social Russia, Asia political, econ, military & intel focus. Applied transnational legal, commercial, policy & natsec experience. RTs = interesting.
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Rita McGrath @rgmcgrath.bsky.social Columbia University Business School Professor | C-Suite Strategist | Thinkers 50 Top 10 | Best-selling author | Founder, Valize and Rita McGrath Group
https://linktr.ee/ritamcgrath
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
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John Hultquist @hultquist.bsky.social Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
Matt Devost @devost.net Technologist, entrepreneur, and hacker | CEO @ OODA | Founder @DevSec | Past Founder of FusionX & Terrorism Research Center. Black Hat board member. 
Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social Independent journalist covering Trmp, kleptocracy, far-right networks, OSINT, bylines Daily Beast, Guardian, Buzzfeed, Byline Times, footnote in Senate Intel Russia report, subscribe to http://NewsTRACS.com, tips: wendy@newstracs.com
Wicked Smaaaht @popculturegeorge.bsky.social Books, music, emergency medicine, vinyl records
Patriots football
Penguins Hockey
I'm also a ballet fan. Eclectic is how I like it.
Social Worker in training
I review movies for forcesofgeek.com
PJ 🇨🇦 🧬🔬📡💻 🥃 @pj47596176.bsky.social National security, cyber, science & innovation, whisky, and other musings.
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social Intelligence history student. Covert action, counterintelligence and HUMINT tradecraft. Sometimes Classics.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Before The Rain aka Jerwayne Cook @jerwaynebtr.bsky.social Former CIA Officer and GCC and CT SME. Looking at the intersection of technology and security. Oak Cliff born and AZ based.
Jason Lyons @bgsilverback73.bsky.social Don't ask me, I woke up here...former 3-letter guy...no I don't know who killed Kennedy, and no I can't hook you up with some of that sweet, sweet MKULTRA...EYES ON podcast co-host..
The Team House Podcast @theteamhouse.bsky.social Vet bro pod
The Team House
https://youtube.com/@theteamhousepodcast?si=24yomJ7vooaLlvSn
Eyes On podcast
https://youtube.com/@eyesonpodcast?si=eydf2YdUiJbmnEbb
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Nada Bakos @nadabakos.bsky.social Former CIA analyst and social media alum. Now I mainly focus on being outdoors.
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Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
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