We help #climate advocates, policymakers, & researchers working on the #EnergyTransition by liberating #OpenData about the US energy system using #Python based #DataEngineering
We're also a worker cooperative.
https://github.com/catalyst-cooperative
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Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
An optimistic morning radio program about San Francisco! Talking about what's going on in the City with the people who make it better! ☕️
Live on BFF.fm every Thursday morning from 7:30-9:30am 📻
Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.com
Web developer. @bffdotfm radio. Music nerd. Brit in San Francisco. he/him.
Awesome community radio for San Francisco, broadcasting 24/7 on the webwaves. Listener supported 💯%. Download our app for ad-free streaming: BFF.fm/app
i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org
anthropologist, advocate, gamer, garden witch.
Co-Director of AnyKey.org
still human in the strange loop • journalist ∆ words and images / technologies ecologies geographies security energy media cultures ∞ ∆ ∆ ∆ contributing editor Fast Company ⟴ founding editor Motherboard • ¶• pasternack@protonmail.com / alex.265 on Signal
climate curious. let’s build something new in the shell of the old, eh?
artist
game maker
co-created puzzmo
I protect people from technology, and technology from people. Focused on all things security, defense, risk, and resilience. I brake for wildflowers and chase art history mysteries.
Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Well, here’s another one… IG/Threads @kirlianauras @aventuresltd Twitter @lichensarealive
Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.
Poet; author of At Night & 11 chapbooks; lover of little mysteries.
https://lisaciccarello.com/#welcome
Historian of technology & dad joke aficionado who lived w/a great little gray rabbit until recently (RIP).
I won’t share AI generated content, except to critique it.
In person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care about me put one on too.
www.marhicks.com
Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Walking around the lake and cooking things for friends in Oakland
she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
My dog's name is Spanky, I live in the Bay Area, and I'm a product designer @GitHub
Investigations at EFF, researching border and police tech. Scholar in res. at UNR Reynolds School of Journalism. My graphic novel Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis (https://a.co/d/gHsJzAa) is out now from Berger Books/Dark Horse.
programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Writer in residence in biological sciences, Columbia University. Writing on the intersection of science, culture, and politics. IS IT OK TO HAVE A CHILD? on climate crisis and reproductive justice forthcoming from Random House.
law prof UC Law SF, neuroscientist, collective cognitive capital, brain/behavior/society
writer, historian, appetite!
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Why is there even the news
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
shewolfe.co
coyote.computer
instagram.com/wolfchirp
editorial collective taper.badquar.to
bsky bot 🌚 @lycanthrobot.bsky.social
occasional games wolfchirp.itch.io
anarchist; the bay area’s only hacker; once-upon-a-time theoretical physicist. i might be a cryptographer but i'm not your cryptographer.
helped build tor, signal, zcash, firefox, probably some other things folks use sometimes. 🏳️⚧️
I help small teams do big things and help big teams have big impact. And I build GoodJob, Day of the Shirt, Panlexicon, and Brompt too.
writer, editor, producer, new zealander
Adventure Athlete: 1st openly trans person Naked&Afraid/Iditarod - Musher: ’22 Rookie of the Year, Sportsmanship Award, Best Kept Team x2
semi-professional somatic bicycle therapist. likes dumb smarties and smart dummies. chocolate chip cookies.
Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write, publish, speak, and consult about product management and AI ethics.
My hobby is having […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Former legislator, democratic socialist, housing advocate, founder of Tenants Together. He/Him. Opinions my own, reposts not endorsements.
Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Always saying yes to fries
Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
writer, artist, alleged geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. dissertation blog: placing.technology. views adamantly mine
critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | they/them 🍊 av by max graves
signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
fake tenant lawyer, aspiring social housing umarell
Candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 9
Public bank, Indigenous rights, decarbonization advocate 🌎
Hidatsa, Two Kettle Lakota
She/her 🏳️🌈🇲🇽
computer person, dancing animal
putting the ✿soft✿ in software engineer
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✿ shop.bubblesort.io
✿ sailorhg.com
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to outsmart the Macho Man.
Milwaukeean. I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond. https://error.malware-virus.biz
Infrequent health policy newsletter: buttondown.com/error
Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
Newsletter shesabeast.co
couchtobarbell.com
senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com
"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Internet Researcher, Producer for hbomberguy
Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Gov Lab & Massive Data Institute: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine
co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
not exactly the voice of reason. scaffolding @eff. centroamericana. escribiendo en https://www.cartasalabismo.com/
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Luddite. Head of @pmstudiouk.bsky.social
los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.
In short, life goes on, and life is known to be very difficult and very complicated, and as we say in Vienna, many roads lead to the Central Cemetery.
columbus, ohio. i'm mostly on mastodon these days: friend.camp/@makingarecord
thoughts and happenings
they/them
Seattle/34
they/them ~ socialism/games/story's
portland
https://objelisks.space
Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
designer / transit person / cat map creator
transit.supply • electionmapsf.com • streetcar.live
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes
writing: kellypendergrast.com
working: antistaticpartners.com
Artist — https://www.chrisrusak.com
Las Vegas, Nevada
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Founder of SF community radio station BFF.fm
Founder & CEO @jura.bsky.social | Full-stack probabilistic machine learning for the development of genetic medicines | NYC & Basel & Boston
Android person on the loose! Former Cash App, Instagram, BNR. http://www.billjings.net
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
