Hey folks! Can you recommend two folks I should follow?
Trying to liven up my timeline to ditch the bird app.
I'll start: I recommend @inquiline for π₯ #STS and environment content, and @mel_hogan for the best critical takes on "AI" and data.
RT so we can break outta our federated bubbles!
@mekkaokereke and @polotek are useful insider + Black perspectives on American tech
@davidthewid @[email protected] @mel_hogan
If you're not following @lisamelton yet, your world is about to be rocked!
@davidthewid Well, I follow over 7,000 people (which is still too few) so that's gonna be a looooong list. π
But @talia_christine, @noondlyt and @dgoldsmith are big boosters like I am.
I find people like @mekkaokereke, @Teri_Kanefield, @futurebird and @LadyDragonfly endlessly fascinating.
For news I rely on @GottaLaff and @[email protected] a lot.
And this is just a fraction of the awesome people here. But does that help?
@lisamelton So many thanks!β€οΈπ«ΆπΌ
@[email protected] @Teri_Kanefield @noondlyt @futurebird @davidthewid @talia_christine @LadyDragonfly @mekkaokereke @dgoldsmith
@SrRochardBunson @mekkaokereke @futurebird @Teri_Kanefield @dgoldsmith @pivoinebleue @GottaLaff @davidthewid @noondlyt @lisamelton @talia_christine
Thanks for the recommend!
β¬οΈ I would love to have a peek at your lists (just the titles).
I like the way your mind works (and always have).
@Tengrain I have dozens of lists and they're all poorly named. π€£
But, hey, it works. Seriously, I'm not sure I could even do this Boost-O-Matticβ’ thing without the Lists feature of Mastodon. I just wish the UI for managing them was better. But I'm a extreme user so the developers shouldn't listen to me. π
I am a big fan of lists, too. Itβs a blessing and a curse. When I follow someone new I try to find a home for them in a list, but... Well, you know. π
@lisamelton @davidthewid @talia_christine @noondlyt @dgoldsmith @mekkaokereke @Teri_Kanefield @futurebird @GottaLaff @pivoinebleue
Thank you for the recommend!
@davidthewid welcome! π
off the top of my head, iβve found these folk great especially for trying to navigate the βAIβ hype and data:
@mmitchell_ai
@timnitGebru
@emilymbender
@ct_bergstrom
@natematias
the markup do excellent work regarding privacy and biases in tech/data:
@StillIRise1963
@AnarchoNinaWrites
for culture and politics
@barb
@lovelylovely
for news
@futurebird
and many others for being cool!
cc: @inquiline @mel_hogan
ONLY two? Tough ask. Every single person I follow is interesting and cool. Seriously, Dear Readers, you wouldn't go wrong just following all my follows.
But if I can only pick two...
@Rose_On_Mars writes stories and games about feelings and monsters and kissing. If you're on Fedi, you'd probably like her stuff.
@comicsbyxan makes comics about catgirls and smashing fascism. You like the catgirls, eh? You like smashing the fascism, eh?
@davidthewid @Rose_On_Mars @comicsbyxan
(Dear Reader, if you're wondering "Why not me?" then please accept my very sincere apologies. Getting this down to just two was very difficult, and ultimately it was a very close race. If the wind had blown a bit differently, it could easily have been you.)
Two is a hard number to whittle it down to, but I give you two independent journalists working very different beats:
@timkmak, a war correspondent covering Ukraine
And @molly0xfff, who is covering cryptocurrency like a hawk and finds humor in legal filings with the seeming ease that I can find juice in my fridge
@davidthewid @inquiline @mel_hogan
Molly White! Her reporting on crypto currency scams/fails/crimes is the best!
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