Jesse Damiani
🎙️Urgent Futures youtube.com/@UrgentFutures. Follow for big ideas in overshoot/climate, tech, philosophy, postgrowth ➡️ YT, Spotify, Apple Pods @urgentfutures.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Adjunct Assistant Prof, USC
✍️ realitystudies.co + NBC News, The Verge, WIRED
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New Media Art/Digital Art (Artist List)
Artists working with electronic media of all kinds. *NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST*
Alternative Economics (Degrowth, Post-Growth, etc)
Economists, scientists, scholars, activists, theorists, communicators, & others who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies that run counter to contemporary neoliberal economics. (Also ecosocialism, doughnut economics, et al.)
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@lmesseri.bsky.social
anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
@leahzaidi.bsky.social
Polycrisis, Systems, Foresight Researcher. Strategic Worldbuilding Expert. Advisor to Canada and Finland. multiversedesign.com
@racheldonald.bsky.social
I investigate why the world is in crisis: planetcritical.com I also investigate what to do about it: planetcoordinate.com Join subscribers in 186 countries.
@michaelmezz.bsky.social
sharing ideas for a better future 🏜️ economics, climate, finance & culture ✨ ☿
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media @spitfirenews.com.
@acyn.bsky.social
Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com Clips made with SnapStream Internet Hooligan...
@alidasun.bsky.social
Artist & technologist. Hand coded craftwork + subversive digital living linktr.ee/alidasun
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@ketanjoshi.co
Analysis, research, writing and communications focused on anti-greenwashing and corporate accountability. Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
@zackbornstein.bsky.social
Emmy-losing Writer/Director (#Shrinking, @nbcSNL, @Netflix, @Hulu, @Dreamworks, @JimmyKimmelLive, #StrangePlanet, @NewYorker)
@wimcarton.bsky.social
Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Award-winning investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, Critical Frequency, former co-host of Hot Take (RIP), contributor to lots of places. She/her/ella in 🇨🇷. Got a lead? Signal: adubs.78. Protonmail: amy@drilled.media
@peterbrannen.bsky.social
Mammal 1st book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-ends-of-the-world-peter-brannen?variant=32121859801122 2nd book (Aug, 2025): https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-story-of-co2-is-the-story-of-everything-peter-brannen?variant=42382167638050
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
@urgentfutures.bsky.social
🔎 {signals} in noise Dialogues to clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. Hosted by journalist, curator, & professor @jessedamiani.bsky.social. Subscribe⤵️ youtube.com/@UrgentFutures
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign
@anamariacaballero.bsky.social
award-winning literary artist | digital poetry revolution | cofounder theVERSEverse | author of 6 books | harvard | colombiana https://linktr.ee/anacaballero
@entangledlight.bsky.social
artist (norwegian), co-founder of entangled others. all things art, experimental, systems & ecology. he/him
@entangledothers.bsky.social
Entangled Others is an entanglement w/ the more-than-human, where diversity & inter-connectedness are nurtured & engaged through generative art.
@miss-sammie.bsky.social
going on the computer to make art about going on the computer but sometimes the art is also computer co founder newart.city virtual art space veeler.biz // deadname.online
@danieljkelley.bsky.social
Gaming and tech advocate; Brooklyn native; Director, Strategy and Operations, Center for Tech & Society, ADL
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@mims.bsky.social
WSJ tech columnist. Dog person. Author of Arriving Today, an unfortunately timely book about the global system of trade we're currently flushing down the toilet: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/arriving-today-christopher-mims
@drawing.bsky.social
Artist, Director, founder 4th Wall App 🪩, Expanded filmmaker 🔜 Substrate at LACMA ‘SEISMIC’ at Charlie James Gallery, LA Current: CENTO at the Whitney Museum SEEK at Cosm Los Angeles & Dallas
@aaronhuey.bsky.social
Nat Geo photographer since 2005, Founder of Amplifier. AnyMediumNecessary.com
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@kentbye.com
Voices of VR Podcast host: Insatiably curious, XR oral historian, & aspiring philosopher. Exploring Tech Ethics, AI, XR, & Emerging Tech. Patreon at http://patreon.com/voicesofvr
@noahjnelson.com
Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty. Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos. BlueskyUser #499
@scottstein.bsky.social
CNET - future tech, VR/AR, wearables, games, existential dread, coffee-based energy. Whimsy follower. I’m looking in the weeds for the little frogs. https://www.cnet.com/profiles/scottstein8/#articles #verifiCADO by Laura Martinez
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
@askaubry.com
Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes Submission? DM me DMs are subject to the public Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/askaubry Follow≠endorse TL=TW
@manjusrii.bsky.social
Snr Lecturer digital media Swinburne Uni, chicken whisperer, researcher. Smells books. Maybe we can build a new thing here 🌱 The Upside Down: https://twitter.com/manjusrii
@chrismessina.me
😬 Man of the internet; generalist. 🆕 App updates and snark. 🫡 Twitter sober since April '23. #️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com