Tim Carmody
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com
Now: Deputy Editor at DeepLearning.AI.
I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
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Tim's Superfriends
These are my good friends and the best posters; the people I make sure to read every day. Your mileage may vary!
@idenarch.bsky.social
currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives) currently @ stanford / prev @ northeastern first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
@jsombat.bsky.social
Leading Design systems (product design) at Spotify, lives in Brooklyn, loves books and @motoveli.bsky.social
@jonathanleroux.bsky.social
Speech and audio research scientist @MERL. saneworkshop.org co-founder. IguanaTex developer. 🌐 jonathanleroux.org 🐙 github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/ 🎓 scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUpxty8AAAAJ&hl=en
@jayowens.bsky.social
I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I write about environmental politics. ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023) 🔗 https://JayOwens.me 📧 https://disturbances.ghost.io/ 📙 https://hachette.co.uk/titles/jay-owens/dust/9781529362
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
@jtlg.bsky.social
I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@daverutledge.com
@meh.com, previously woot.com, long ago geeklife.com. I had a shorter handle on Twitter.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@sherifink.bsky.social
Author: Five Days at Memorial, War Hospital. EP, Pandemic (Netflix); producer, Five Days at Memorial (Appletvplus). @nytimes.com. MD, PhD. Sherifink.net/bio
@nathanbransford.com
Author of How to Write a Novel and the Jacob Wonderbar series. Blogging holdout. Reach out to me for help with your book! www.nathanbransford.com
@wendykloiber.bsky.social
So did the divine right of kings. Long covid class of March 2020, the kind with ME. Would like one more tattoo, minimum. She/her.
@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
@coloradotravis.bsky.social
Startup CEO Philosophy degrees are worth it Member, AuDHD Masking Society (rank: Daywalker) “I didn't agree to participate in your social learning experiment.” — people in the comments
@chrisamico.bsky.social
Journalist + Developer, working on @documentcloud.org + @muckrock.com. You might know me from: Homicide Watch, USA TODAY Network, Frontline, WBUR, NPR, PBS NewsHour. https://chrisamico.com/
@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
@notquitehydepark.bsky.social
poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. New super gay book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674273115Podcast: https://teamupmoves.com
@jtramsay.bsky.social
A woofer in tweeter's clothing. Once and future music critic. Bylines: Dusted and beyond. PHL & DTW, forever.
@rochelle.bsky.social
Powerful Artificial Intelligence is coming. Society is not prepared. FBPE, Scotland, Canada, Humanism, Human Rights, CooperativeAI, Hygge.
@johndevore.bsky.social
This is a Phantom of the Opera fan account My debut memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' is on sale now
@kevinbaker.bsky.social
writing at: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com editing at: reboothq.substack.com
@djlavoie.bsky.social
Comms and policy. Work for racial justice, social justice, economic justice. Former journo. Current Dad. Personal account, personal views. Signal: @djlavoie.99
@yoz.bsky.social
A small yoz-type object. He/him/oh. Passive Londoner, active Oaklander. Only eats kosher planets. Also @yoz@mastodon.social.
@jessejamesgarrett.com
@debrawexler.bsky.social
Comms maven. I live in Brooklyn and am passionate about improving education, NYC, and connecting with people working to make my city and our country more livable for all. Obligatory: opinions mine.
@jan-peters.bsky.social
#RobotLearning Professor (#MachineLearning #Robotics) at @ias-tudarmstadt.bsky.social of @tuda.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @hessianai.bsky.social
@michaelwhudson.bsky.social
Pulitzer-sharing journo + author current gig: head of investigations @GuardianUS prior gigs: @ICIJorg (Panama Papers, etc.), Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity, Wall Street Journal, Roanoke (Va.) Times linktr.ee/michaelwhudson
@samitsarkar.bsky.social
✍🏾 deputy managing editor, @polygon.com | ✊🏾 formerly & forever Vox Union | ✉️ samit [dot] sarkar @ polygon | ⁉️ proud Jeopardy! loser | reading, writing, playing, watching, sleeping | he/him
@emsetc.bsky.social
I am not a committee. Defense, lightly eclectic Gen-X interests, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own. What are you reading?
@khadijah.bsky.social
Everything I care about was target of a day one EO: #civilrights #equity #transrights #environmentaljustice etc. Policy lawyer, ex-journo/NP exec fueled by fierce love&lighthearted shit-talking. Finding solidarity with my inner child. Views mine, all mine!
@stealingsand.bsky.social
If the bass drops in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, is it still off the chain? (∩｀-´)⊃━ ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ 林蔤雅 • 임미아 Pottery | science | cats | justice | AuDHD | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | UX/Accessibility Cover by @devinellekurtz.bsky.social
@another.rodeo
Endorsed for banter and dolphin facts. Has worn many hats. Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say, and never assume anything I say here is correct.
@silver.phoenyx.net
Midwesterner in South Jersey, tired Gen Xer, sometime Perl developer, doing weird things with sewing robots. Once and future gamehawk.bsky.social She/her, generally. (Header image: cropped Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry for the Kansas Capital.)
@freney.org
Nerd. Also: translation consultant at BSA, NT PhD, frisbee player, musician, and that coffee guy. Interested in many languages.
@zachleat.com
🌍 https://zachleat.com 🎈🐀 Creator/Maintainer of @11ty.dev 🧰 Builder at @fontawesome.com 🏳️⚧️ Listen to Trans Folks 👋🏻 He/him/they 🐘 https://zachleat.com/@zachleat 🐟 out of 🌊 ✅ Front of the Front-end ✅ Static Sites 🚾 Web Components ✅ Web Perf
@profciara.bsky.social
Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands and Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board member of CREW; campaign finance expert. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. #beans
@niais.bsky.social
Disabled, queer, Jewish, (chimerical?) cyborg, load bearing, professor of space stuff, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches and too many pens. Building joy with a side of chaos. Team Lightning Thunder Unicorn. Team Peace Rose.
@trilobiter.bsky.social
@christopherkay.ft.com
Mumbai Bureau Chief at the Financial Times. Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.