Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs
denniscrowley.com
@aaron-greenberg.bsky.social @aaron-greenberg.bsky.social 
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
roopa vasudevan @rouxpz.bsky.social new media artist and researcher based between NYC and western massachusetts. faculty @ UMass Amherst art department. views my own. ✨ roopavasudevan.com
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social Former tech guy. Writer. Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see. Observations here: http://notesfromthecircus.com
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social artist working with code kylemcdonald.net
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
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
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Karina Chow @karinachowtime.com Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇨🇳 +🇩🇪 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-engineer at Patreon, Microsoft, Honor | NYU ITP, CMU HCI educated
RC @selfishagenda.com Everyone knows I'm New Wave.
Designer, Art & Technology Educator (CCS/MCAD/MSU), CCS CD/NYU IMA Low Res grad, and small label guy who puts out a record or two every few years.
Ann Arbor/Detroit USA
https://ryancady.design
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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
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/
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)
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
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Daniel Shiffman @shiffman.lol Choo choo!
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.