James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. #Communist. #Feminist. #Antifascist. #Luddite. Email: tante@tante.cc | License CC BY-SA-4 […]
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org Science writer, journalist, physicist, hat man, cat man, queer. Pfp by @makinaro.com . Signal: BowlerHatScience.51
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social Occasional Creator of Stuff. Chipper, polite, and menacing. He/they, Puggalo
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
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Investigate DOGE @investigatedoge.bsky.social DOGE was a smash-and-grab on democracy. They stole our data. They gutted our government. They put our rights through the woodchipper. No more "look forward, not back." Congress MUST hold them accountable. Join us: https://investigatedoge.com/
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Assoc Prof of Engineering @ ANU | Deputy Director ANU Defence Institute | UNIDIR Fellow - researching the decommissioning of military AI systems | 🇦🇺🇱🇧
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cal newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown · Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Slow Productivity · Writing about focus, technology & meaningful work.
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
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Video at Highlight Reel.
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Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
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@dissent.digital @dissent.digital Documenting our dissent from Big Tech.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Nodes Of Resistance @noderesist.de Nodes of Resistance is a series of events in Berlin. Let's build a movement against Big Tech as broad and unpredictable as it can be to reflect the diversity of the society that is affected by the Big Tech's destruction.
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me Game developer @foldedfox.games | Previously: Bad North, Little Nightmares, LittleBigPlanet | He/Him
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Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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Pivot to AI [Unofficial] @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing Fox with a boxy muzz. Late-30s. Scottish. 🔞 MINORS DNI 🔞
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Chatbots are an ontological crime,
That's why I yiff Gemini on Google's dime.
"basically insane" - Andy Masley
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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/
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
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.
jenn schiffer 😮💨 @jennschiffer.com human genius
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social Talking tech, science and media. Journalist and broadcaster. Host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social and Connected AI Podcast.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
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https://softwarecrisis.dev/
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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
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
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.
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Just a Guy Drawing Stuff @travisa.bsky.social 40/ Elder Milennial nerd, mini-painter and drawer of pretty decent pics.
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social Join us to fight against the tech corporation fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state at PurgePalantir.com. 🫡
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Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
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Milwaukeean. I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond. Hong for Governor policy director 2K26, database goon @ Defector
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Protos @protos.com Informed crypto news — protos.com
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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.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social Good Politics/Bad Politics - Subscribe! https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/ Also I root for the Giants. The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2024.
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
digby @digby56.bsky.social OG blogger at digbysblog.net
columnist for Salon.com
Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social Writer, @thebulwark.com. Email: saletan@thebulwark.com. You can also find me at https://www.threads.net/@wsaletan and http://substack.com/@saletan
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Brit Stakston @stakston.se Sometimes it snows in April. Main focus Tech, Democracy and Strategic Communication. Media Strategist, Author, Lecturer and CEO Blankspot.se digital platform for long form journalism. Contact: +46 (0)733 83 33 66 mail: brit[@]stakston.se
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