MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
APHIE @crueltechnology.bsky.social social researcher & almost a phd student. donna haraway fanboy. the patrick bateman of lighting some candles and reading a nice book
We and AI @weandai.bsky.social Non-profit organisation. Critical AI literacy - critical thinking about AI and better narratives about AI for public power. Powered by volunteers
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Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD of Our AI Collective. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social 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
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io Software Engineering researcher; Associate Professor at UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil.
https://adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com/
https://ko-fi.com/adolfoneto
Posts mostly in English.
#ElixirLang enthusiast (I also love #LeanLang, #LuaLang, #Erlang).
Podcaster.
Smitha @smithakp.bsky.social She/they. SEA+PIT+ATL+徳島県. UX designer for good + against Big Tech and AI. Volcanoes, violins, not violence (except defending against fascists). That Pirates of Dark Water (.net) lady.
PFP: Australian robin: a rotund bird w/ blue+pink feathers. Not AI!
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social 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
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Matt Smith @thisismattsmith.com Slowly growing up. Quickly getting old.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social A site for AI resistance tactics, reclaiming agency and organising for better technology. SayYesDoNo.com
Banner art from Bart Fish via Better Images of AI
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social Oof, what if we did good things for people instead?
Read a book.
Philip Nelson 💻🧙 @blu3r4d0n.shutdown.network public servant data scientist
🚈🚝🚊🚌
this account does not represent the views of my employer
Current hyperfixation: the Muppets
big Tolkien and Le Guin fan, hockey lover, and coffee addict
South Carolina is my home
https://shutdown.network/links.html
Tiziano Bonini @tbonini.bsky.social Associate professor of Sociology of culture and Communication at @unisi. Co-author of Algorithms of Resistance (MIT Press 2024), available in OA, MIT press website
Jen tiNGtiNG @jentingting.bsky.social Artist/designer. ♥ huskies, crows, woodpeckers, stray cats, carnivorous plants, gardening, art, & random weirdness. Email list: tinyurl.com/jentingtingart | Etsy: jentingting.etsy.com | Ebay: ebay.us/m/PWgMnS
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
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rux @ruxee.bsky.social illustrator, with a side of game dev artist and a sprinkle of creative writing ✨
artwork: https://cara.app/ruxidia/portfolio
V. A. Matatumua Vermeulen @vincentamv.bsky.social writer - artist - photographer - translator
multidisciplinarian: law, history, politics +
🚫AI 
pop77 @pop77.bsky.social He/him. Design dweeb.
https://letterboxd.com/pop77/list/ever-growing-boutique-label-collection/
Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social Bookworm. Linguist. Localization Director. Japanese-English translator & interpretor. Former manga/anime translator. DFTBA ❤️💜💙
日本語OK!
https://j-entranslations.com
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social BTS ARMY, done with capitalism
Emily Singer @emilysingerneuro.bsky.social chief opinion editor, The Transmitter
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Anne Reads Comics! @annecomics.bsky.social Carol Anne Bananaman. Co-Host of the Comics Collective and general comics enjoyer (She/Her) pfp by @niccitrus
Francis Harte @moodymoor.bsky.social academic librarian, comrade, jester
Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social ND Secular Humanist ♾️ Cartoonist w/Eisner and Ignatz Noms ✍️ Fix Your Hearts or Die 🫀
https://www.joshuawcotter.com/ -or- https://bio.site/joshuawcotter
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
YellowManteau.com
BOJΛN_PΞRKOV 🌐🌍 @bojanperkov.bsky.social Digital Policy Coordinator @sharefondacija.bsky.social | Personal posts | Veritas scutum meum est
A Moveable Feed @amoveablefeed.bsky.social Blunt, funny takes on today’s biggest stories from a recovering DC insider. One sharp email a day so you actually understand the news. Subscribe ↓ https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
A Moveable Feed @talentx.bsky.social Moveable Feed: sharp, biased dispatches from Trump’s America and the AI future. Ex‑DC comms hack, still talking. Read + subscribe here → https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Clean air/COVID safety advocate/activist/researcher. Other health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
https://linktr.ee/aidanwalker1
Substack: How To Do Things With Memes, @aidanetcetera TikTok, Insta, YouTubey
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator and Art Director
represented by UsFolk and MA World Group
Let’s make something cool
They/Them ☭
📧sonnyrossillustration@gmail.com
https://www.sonnyross.com
Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. 
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social get ready for some bad drawings. he/him
NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social I’m a lot of things. Pastor turned artist. Cartoonist. Writer. And other things I’m still figuring out. To be all these things is simply to be human. Complex, meaningful, creative, curious, and evolving.
www.nakedpastor.com/pages/links
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
Phineas @phineas.bsky.social This is our most moderately priced receptacle.
• https://octophant.us
• https://octophant.threadless.com
• https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/
🚫AI Delenda Est🚫
Gabrielle Bluestone @gabriellebluestone.bsky.social Use your words writer girl 
Laura Bullard @laurabullard.com A little bit of writing + a lot of researching. This account largely (exclusively?) dedicated to Merf the pitbull. Not tweeting @lumbeelaura.
@johngravois.bsky.social @johngravois.bsky.social 
Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4 awesome young adults. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
Bill O'Luanaigh 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 @chimpwithcarkeys.bsky.social Reformed Digital Utopian. Bought the late 80's and 90's tech hype. Sorely regretting that purchase. A better internet is possible but we need better people making it.
Not big on fascists or tech bros but that may be redundant.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
garlicccc 🧄 @childlessgambino.bsky.social I hate your friends and they hate me too
I am not a man
kill your darlings. fuck AI
one half of @bozemart.bsky.social
🔞
🇵🇸🍉
https://linktr.ee/nansome
MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com Our in depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s happening now to help you know what’s coming next.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social Prof & Lab Head in NYC. 100% research: cell division, genome integrity, cancer.
Curious to a fault. Also πολύτροπος. Talking here for me alone. I listen to the finest worksong. Like/repost = bookmark/news, not agreement/endorsement.
Better Images of AI @betterimagesofai.bsky.social What does AI really look like? Download free images and guides, read explorations of visual narratives about AI.
A white robot and glowing blue brain free zone!
A volunteer collaboration run by We and AI and built by BBC R&D
BetterImagesofAI.org
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social Director of marketing & community teams. 14+yrs in game dev. VanCity🇨🇦
Previously: company of heroes, dawn of war, marvel contest of champions, transformers forged to fight, squad, starship troopers
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) Blocking doomerism on sight.
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
The Glaze Project (UChicago SAND Lab) @theglazeproject.bsky.social Official Glaze project Bsky account.
Glaze/Nightshade @ University of Chicago
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
https://webglaze.cs.uchicago.edu
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
👩💻 paris.nyc
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.
Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
@anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com Liberal in the Smith-Douglass-Mill-Anderson vein. Writer and editor for Liberal Currents. https://bsky.app/profile/liberalcurrents.com
Jonathan Taplin @jttaplin.bsky.social Director Emeritus, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Author, “Move Fast and Break Things”, “The End of Reality”. Producer, “Mean Streets”, “The Last Waltz”.
Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com 'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
@billtron.bsky.social @billtron.bsky.social precarious faculty / rhythm section / dungeon master / hiker
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Dr. Whitney Gilley @whitneygilleymd.medsky.social Psychiatrist with interests in psychotherapy, traumatic stress, women's health and health psychology. 🧠🧪 #MedEd #MedSky #PsychSky
Helping build the BSky ACT therapists community
Posts ≠ Medical advice
Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social Columbia professor. Scholar of environmental and climate justice, cities, and who gets to build the future. Co-founder LabGov. Detroit born, Miami bred.
https://people.climate.columbia.edu/users/profile/sheila-foster
Chasing Oz @chasingoz.bsky.social News Ninja
Travel Host
& Best Selling Author
http://ChasingOz.Bio
TravelwithChasingOz.com
ChasingOz.Substack.com
Thrry @ Reclaim The Feeds ! @handle.invalid Building tools that respect people.
"We want to move from flux to stock."
https://reclaimthefeeds.org/
House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social We are the Democratic Caucus of the United States House of Representatives 🇺🇸
Chair: @aguilar.house.gov | Vice Chair: @reptedlieu.bsky.social
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com