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/
Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh
Journalist covering cities, climate, and energy.
Proprietor of Cold Eye Earth (formerly The Gregor Letter)
https://www.coldeye.earth | @coldeye.earth
Design engineer playing with AI and hacky prototypes @githubnext.com
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
๐ London
๐ฑ maggieappleton.com
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
Opinion columnist. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org. I write about LGBTQ issues, public health, homelessness, and sometimes birds.
Itโs pronounced โnoo-lahโ
nuala@coyotemedia.org
Harvard professor, historian of science, technology, and medicine, plus food and environment ๐
(https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/joyce-chaplin)
New book: THE FRANKLIN STOVE (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613808/thefranklinstove/)
@chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute ่ๆ็ดๅฟต้คจ Director, Biographical Lit ๅณ่จๆๅญธ publisher
ๅจๆ่ญ #everynightapoem
โIs it getting hot in here or is it just me?โ
Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we donโt have enough ๐ฟ for the apocalypse.
he/they
Sonoma
๐Oakland, CA | Social Impact Consulting ๐ค | Mostly here for Dubs x Niners, social justice, gardening, the Bay, bookstores, food, and libraries โจ
Director, UC Merced Fire Resilience Center. Pyrogeographer. I study wildfire in the era of anthropogenic climate change. Former wildland firefighter. Opinions are my own. *she/her* ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
โ๏ธ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com
๐ "San Franciscoโs Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
๐ง Coming soon: Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฆฐ She/her.
Radio journalist
Creator of audio docs
THE COMPETITION
PINK CARD
DOLLY PARTONS AMERICA
VANISHING OF HARRY PACE
THE FLAG & THE FURY
UNERASED
IN THE NO
shimaoliaee.com
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
he/him
Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.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 @ Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Gonna start trying to bridge from Mastodon & go from there: https://mastodon.social/@schuyler
Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Professor, researcher, maker of things
~Book: Atlas of AI
~Installation: Calculating Empires
~NYT video: AI's Real Environmental Impact https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/ai-quartz-mining-hurricane-helene.html
