Causal Islands Conference
The future of computing
- Berlin, October 2024 https://berlin.causalislands.com/
- San Francisco, Tiny Talks, Aug 2024
- LA Community Edition, March 2024
- Toronto, April 2023
“Advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing”
Starter Packs
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Causal Islands attendees, speakers, and more
@grjte.sh
- https://grjte.sh - Researcher at @baincapitalcrypto.com exploring programmable cryptography and local-first software - Experimenting with atproto + local-first software at https://groundmist.xyz
@joygao.bsky.social
expert of obsolescence (a.k.a. software engineer). ex-Figma, ex-WePay. currently funemployed. long-form ✍️: https://expertofobsolescence.substack.com
@digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
@folkjs.org
What would happen if we blurred the distinction between the web page and the spatial canvas? https://folk.systems/
@byjp.me
Making things, dancing & thinking for fun. Poly, miriscient, software engineer & general geek. Do say hi! https://www.byjp.me
@nickevershed.bsky.social
Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc work: nick.evershed@theguardian.com tip-offs: nick.evershed@protonmail.com latest: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed
@localfirstconf.com
Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 26th - 28th May 2025. www.localfirstconf.com
@oredev.org
International conference for software developers, taking place in Malmö, Sweden! Mark your calendar for this year's edition: 5-7 November 2025 🌟 https://linktr.ee/oredev Conference Director @maydbs.bsky.social Producer @hannagustavsson.bsky.social
@komorama.bsky.social
Generalist fascinated by complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of Common Tools. https://komoroske.com
@loriemerson.net
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
@freeourfeeds.com
It's time to free social media from billionaire control. FreeOurFeeds.com Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae
@devdevcharlie.com
Senior research engineer 🧪 in cybersecurity, author about ML in JS, and creative technologist. Making weird things in JavaScript (mostly) https://charliegerard.dev
@smus.com
hapax legomenon odin khaldun interaction engineer lowercase philosophant https://smus.com
@eordano.com
Art, technology, design, philosophy. Previously @decentraland, now building a decent future for computing Digital Garden: https://eordano.com
@distributed.camp
I do distributed crypto-y things, mostly product. Working on a p2p stack for funsies. Austin, TX
@hytradboi.bsky.social
Have you tried rubbing a database on it? https://www.hytradboi.com/2025
@jwyg.bsky.social
🐨 https://jonathangray.org/ 🌱 director @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social + reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london + cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social 🫧 feminist STS, data studies, digital methods, internet studies, poetic computation
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@everest.bsky.social
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Assistant Professor at Pratt Game Arts - Shepherd in the summers https://everest-pipkin.com
@melanieh0ff.bsky.social
organizing, performing, sex studies Hex House & School for Poetic Computation
@tega.bsky.social
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/
@carolinesinders.bsky.social
Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ New Orleans and London
@wesleygoatley.bsky.social
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
@lifewinning.com
writer, artist, geographer in crisis. had a beautiful dog for 5 1/2 years. https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. lifewinning.com is past work. wares.lifewinning.com for drawings.
@chia.bsky.social
html (how to make love) •̀･´🪷 𓃗 designer at figma, https://everythingi.love, https://chi.itch.io
@aphid.org
net artist, garden pest scraper/scholar of media, metadata, oversight &counterintelligibility i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz they/he
@machineagency.bsky.social
Artist Teaching at University of Porto (FEUP) PhD in Digital Design Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024 https://rosemary-lee.com/algorithm-image-art
@grayarea.org
Gray Area is a nonprofit applying creativity for positive social impact. 🔗 grayarea.org
@mayalivio.bsky.social
⛆ Environmental media prof @ American University ࿓ Writer, media-maker, curator 𓅪 Resident: MAK Center & SOM (2024) Caltech & Huntington (2023) ꩜ B4: Curator @ BMoCA; Media Archaeology Lab 𓆞 Biodiversity, critical data & AI, land use, media arts 𓆺 LA / DC
@notplants.bsky.social
experiments in online gardening permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry they/them https://mfowler.info https://sunbeam.city/@notplants
@jywarren.bsky.social
Korean American artist educator, ancestral knowledge, crafting pasts & futures • 2023-4 @librarycongress Innovator in Residence • he/him • http://instagram.com/unterbahn
@elan.place
Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive" Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly 💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
@marmb.bsky.social
writer, editor, educator in brooklyn and elsewhere. also long covid, me/cfs, et al. https://margot-armbruster.com/
@estherbouquet.bsky.social
somewhere between writing, archiving, drawing, designing, and programming.