A few things about me
Tim Burks
I'm a software developer and resident of Northern California. This is my personal website. I have a tendency to tinker, and here you'll find lots of evidence of that! Here I point you to projects that I've done for work and for pleasure and share some things that I find interesting.
Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power.
Maintainer spotlight: Siân Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Sean Griffin.
Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
my internet home
Rupert Manfredi is a software developer & product designer with an eye on how emerging tech interacts with human culture.
The Intellectual We Deserve
Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape…
The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
How John O'Nolan Grew Ghost to $750,000/year
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?Hello! 👋🏻 My name is John O'Nolan, and I run a not-for-profit technology foundation w...
Meet Sam Clemente
Hi, I'm Sam Clemente, this is my personal website where you can learn about me and my work
At home with Hans Rosling
In 2012, Time magazine listed Professor Hans Rosling as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in the world. He has the ear of presidents and the minds of those who use the interactive statistical database Gapminder (www.gapminder.org), which he set up with his son, Ola in 1998, and those who watch his talks on TED.com (www.TED.com). And he has the hearts of some of the poorest people in the world, whom he has helped by addressing and publicising public health problems in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Who Is Joel Kaplan, Meta’s New Global Policy Chief? (Published 2025)
The longtime Republican lobbyist for Meta was named to the company’s top policy role last week.
Samuel Krug VFX
Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.socia…
Paper Skygest
Feed by @paper-feed.bsky.socialWhat are your top 3 conversations on the state of the atmosphere? 😀
Daryl Ducharme
Going to #AtmosphereConf in a few weeks and feeling like I have a lot to learn from the @atprotocol.dev community. Any projects or resources that I should look at before I show up?
Cute Corgi Puppy Awooo Howling
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Ezra🦋
@ronentk.me I have a new idea for a Semble feature: Howls. a Howl is basically a request for others to flock to a collection and contribute. if one person Howls at a collection it might show up on a friend's timeline and get added to. if many people start Howling at a collection, it's a signal that-
The eloquent and deeply knowledgeable @peterbrannen.bsky.social is without question one of our best contemporary writers on Earth history & science. If you haven't read his eye-opening debut on mass extinctions, The Ends of the World, and his magisterial, epic follow up, you should remedy that ASAP.
