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Community, Management, and Compliance – #FOSSBack is a two-day conference focused on #FLOSS governance and open collaboration. The next edition of FOSS Backstage will take place on March 16-17, 2026.
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The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
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Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
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Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
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I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
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Programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G, advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. What's in that new world order?
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A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
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Fighter. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
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Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1.
Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism. Cache-misere. Postmaxxing. Special Envoy for the Shield of Bluesky.
Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
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Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.
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Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
developer / CRM architect. public speaker. attempting to be a published author.
skeets do not represent my employer.
Creative writing & lit prof, querying romance author, AI refuser, lover of books & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. 💗
Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
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"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
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Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
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Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst.
Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn Press, forthcoming). http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise?
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