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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." -- Vladimir Nabokov
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | [email protected] — On 👨👶 leave until July — 📝 ft.com/jbm
@pippacrerar.bsky.social
Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@benhammersley.com
Involved from time to time. The work is mysterious and important. We do not discuss our purpose or plans.
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@pkrugman.bsky.social
@stevenlevy.bsky.social
Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
@sambrook.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
@laurengoode.bsky.social
WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
@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
@ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I’m a tech journalist 📰 and I also write about internet history⏳on my indie website Cybercultural. I used to run a Web 2.0 blog named ReadWriteWeb. I'm a 🥝 […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@ricmac on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@jayrosen.bsky.social
I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@tomstandage.bsky.social
Author, deputy editor at The Economist, maker of pizzas, drummer, gamer, history nerd
@briantylercohen.bsky.social
Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
@number10cat.bsky.social
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my sixth Prime Minister. Unofficial. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social
Former US Congressman, Proud RINO, husband, and military man. Fighting the MAGA brain worms daily! Adamkinzinger.komi.io Adamkinzinger.substack.com
@mazzucatom.bsky.social
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose www.marianamazzucato.com
@alastaircampbell.bsky.social
Newcastle/Edinburgh Once ate four festive bakes in under 3 minutes Music/Politics/NUFC
@harpers.bsky.social
Since 1850. “America’s most interesting magazine” —New York Times Subscribe: harpers.org/save
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@harper.lol
post-normal person harper.lol / reading.lol / photos.lol / harper.blog @harper on the other place
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Professor, researcher, author of Atlas of AI. Latest work: Calculating Empires ~ www.calculatingempires.com
@mike.teczno.com
Oakland, Maps, Bikes, etc. Also @[email protected] and formerly @migurski on the birdsite.
@erikahall.bsky.social
I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur. Now all about the chicks (chicken.pics) But please use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research (https://www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research) San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@pahlkadot.bsky.social
Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
@katharina.bsky.social
aka Lyssaslounge on what used to be Twitter. Co-Founder Equilibrio. Former CIO Mozilla, CEO Spiegel Online. Part of the YGL family. Childless dog lady. No ghostwriters were harmed in the making of these posts. May include traces of irony.
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching new work at Unbreaking soon
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
@slavin-fpo.bsky.social
Across culture, technology and science, making a mess or cleaning one up. I relied on the em-dash long before your AI did.
@emollick.bsky.social
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) on the board at Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
@jamescham.bsky.social
Of the San Gabriel Valley; investing for the year 2030; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders.
@tomcoates.bsky.social
English technologist, founder and new product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded a couple of things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about.
@reidhoffman.bsky.social
Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
@tesla-takedown.bsky.social
https://tesla-takedown.com Join a #TeslaTakedown protest, organize your own, grab some protest gear, and help spread the word. Sell your Tesla, dump your stock, and join the #TeslaTakedown. Let's stop Musk!