Scott Smith's Starter Pack
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@changeist.bsky.social
@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
@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
@harper.lol
post-normal person harper.lol / reading.lol / photos.lol / harper.blog @harper on the other place
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
- Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News - Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero - Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast - Book https://akshatrathi.com/book - akshat.rathi@pm.me
@kurtandersen.bsky.social
Co-creator Command Z (with Steven Soderbergh), author Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century, etc., previously host/co-creator Studio 360, columnist New Yorker, editor New York, co-founder Spy https://www.kurtandersen.com/
@eroston.bsky.social
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Bloomberg Green journalist
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@katie0martin.ft.com
FT, E17, Unhedged podcast, gardening, making bread, climbing, cycling, 6 Music Mum. I don't deserve my bad Uber rating and I never give investment advice - if it looks like I am, it's a scam.
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@laurenbeukes.com
Novelist, TV writer, comics writer and recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV) Zoo City and multiverse-lost-mother-thriller, BRIDGE - out now
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
@alphaville.ft.com
A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://on.ft.com/3tDRiiu
@bruces.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
@savasavasava.bsky.social
academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in tkaronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me drinking coffee from guillotine mug banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk
@jonty.bsky.social
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty Previously http://twitter.com/jonty Always http://jonty.co.uk
@paulinebock.bsky.social
Journaliste, féministe, épéiste · Arrêt sur images · a weather eye on Macron's France · Words in NYT, NYer, Politico, Wired, Télérama, etc · pauline @ bock .fr
@alomran.me
Saudi correspondent for @financialtimes.com. @ahmed on Twitter and Instagram.
@nickseaver.website
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
@timmaughan.bsky.social
should be writing a second novel timmaughanbooks.com altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@timfernholz.bsky.social
journalist, author, internet participant writing about the extraterrestial economy at Payload Space, and covering everything else as a freelancer. timfernholz.substack.com www.timfernholz.com Oakland, CA
@specktor.bsky.social
Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
@patrickmccray.bsky.social
Professor @ UCSB => I write history stuff about science + tech + art + environment Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 living in Cali-rado; public lands in public hands, pls. #146,842 https://www.patrickmccray.com
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
@timharford.ft.com
FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
@samanthaculp.bsky.social
Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
@ahmetasabanci.com
Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio Posts in ENG and TUR ahmetasabanci.com https://ahmetasabanci.com/now/ tuhafgelecek.com newslabturkey.org
@clivethompson.bsky.social
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Journalist with Wired / New York Times Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Built https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me
@albertonardelli.bsky.social
Reporter at Bloomberg. In Europe, mostly. I have strong opinions about food and football. DM for Signal.
@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.
@stevemetz.bsky.social
Writing on national security policy and strategy. Working on a book about the future of insurgency.
@maxnathan.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Geography, UCL. Also CEP, IZA. Cities, economics, innovation, diversity, and public policy. Views here are mine, not those of UCL, funders, data providers, etc. https://max-nathan.github.io
@madelineashby.bsky.social
I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
@izakaminska.bsky.social
Senior finance editor @POLITICO, Founder editor of @the-blindspot.com . Fights for the human, etc. We are the nomenklatura.
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability, opening June 2025. she/they ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
@indy.bsky.social
Coach. Strategy, AI-Human and more. Politics Somewhat Meta (if you know, you know)
@urschrei.bsky.social
Academic at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. Reluctant polygon enthusiast. Sometimes I work on computational geometry and spatial data libraries (🦀), which I promise almost never to discuss.
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@changeist.bsky.social
Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com. Barcelona-based. Designing escape rooms for strategy: foom.live Author: “How to Future” (2020) howtofuture.com | “Future Cultures” (2023) futureculturesbook.com Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com