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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥 🎙️ @techwontsave.us 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
CJ Trowbridge @cjtrowbridge.com Forest Communism, Self-Hosted AI, Sustainability, ND, NB https://cjtrowbridge.com/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
𝚊𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚑 @ahorvath.bsky.social 𝚂𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝 𝙵𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 & 𝙲𝚘-𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜: 𝚋𝚒𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝚌𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎, 𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜, 𝚙𝚞𝚗𝚔 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 aaronhorvath.org ✴︎ pwpg.org 𝙾𝚊𝚔𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝙲𝙰 🌱
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35 x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research https://www.heidyk.com/
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc. pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot. 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com 📚 In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown. Oakland, CA | she/her www.rahawahaile.com
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY joannemcneil.com
soleil ho @soleilho.com critic and food writer @coyotemedia.org | James Beard award winner | they/them 🍊 av by max graves signal: soleil.94 | www.soleilho.com
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm" "I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing" reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science. santafe.edu linktr.ee/sfiscience
SNF-Agora @snfagora.bsky.social The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University aims to revitalize the spirit of the ancient agora in today’s world by fostering inclusive dialogue, debate, and collective action to strengthen pluralistic democracy.
Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com) PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual. Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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 Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here. 👨‍🔬 RS DeepMind Past: 👨‍🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑‍🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y 🧙‍♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM 👤 @nwspk
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech beta.nyc/links
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Akshita Sivakumar (Aki) @moredustings.bsky.social Asst. Professor @UCDavis Design ० Director @ Collective for Socio-Spatial and Environmental Praxis (CoSEP) ० Ph.D @UCSDComm & STS ० �
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist. I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. PHL. Everything changes; don’t be afraid. https://timcarmody.com
Peter Merholz @peterme.com Oakland, CA. professional: http://petermerholz.com/ personal: http://peterme.com/
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher. Chaotic neutral tea & CSS lover. Complaining = being alive. She/Her 🌈 https://stephaniewalter.design/ http://neurospicy.agency/
Karen McGrane @karenmcgrane.bsky.social On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.
Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
sophie alpert @sophiebits.com you have the ability to understand things principal engineer, react person, super gay, still masking
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social Publishing empirically grounded & experimental open access books within relational research on science, technology and society
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Peter McDonald @pdmcdonald.bsky.social Associate Professor of Education, UW-Madison. Play scholar, potter, and dog friend. Author of 📖The Impossible Reversal https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916220/the-impossible-reversal/ and 📖Run and Jump https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547390/run-and-jump/
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Doug Eacho @dougeacho.bsky.social asst prof of theatre and performance studies at the national university of singapore. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦. writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
Joseph Gubbels @josephgubbels.bsky.social New Democrat PhD student in political theory & CanPoli at McGill Working on participatory + deliberative democracy Substack: josephgubbels.substack.com
Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy @mediatechdemocracy.bsky.social Our organization examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy. We’re housed at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and led by Taylor Owen.
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age. https://linktr.ee/metagov
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social ⚡️methods for the madness ⚡️ Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social lizbarry.net
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem. $3/month https://flaminghydra.com
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments. Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist 🐘@natematias@social.coop natematias.com citizensandtech.org
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Xabier Barandiaran @xabibaran.bsky.social philosophy, autonomy, mind, life, machines, politics https://xabier.barandiaran.net
Nil Homedes @nilhb.eurosky.social Polítiques públiques / FLOSS / Sobirania tecnològica. Building technological sovereignty from @decidim.org
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Miranda Heath @mirandaheath.website Director @ stewardshiplab.org researching burnout in Open Source communities Psychology and philosophy PhD researcher @ Edinburgh Uni studying collective moral behaviour Loves spoonbills 🥄 More at mirandaheath.website
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal • ex W3C, NYT • Signal robin.77
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org. Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown ✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost) 📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻‍♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦 Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w •Gobernanza residual• https://bit.ly/488OkV7 •Residual Governance• http://bit.ly/41wDJzD proud parent🏳️‍⚧️♾️🧠
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral. signal -> @ali.01