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
ParentsResist.Tech @parentsresist.bsky.social We get to decide what kind of world we make for our kids. PRT highlights research and resources to help advocate for safer, developmentally appropriate childhood experiences and education in your community. Based in San Francisco.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Indigenous Climate Action @indigenousca.bsky.social Indigenous-led 🪶 working to inspire and support sovereign Indigenous-led climate action
Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social Art Historian, artist, Gen AI, Big Tech objector and ex suburban mall goth.
Historienne de l’art, artiste, opposante aux IA génératives et Big Tech et ancienne gothique de centre d’achats de banlieue.
bannière : Méduse romaine, aquarelle par Marilou
Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social author and lecturer on topics in education, parenting, and human behavior....
(Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.org)
He/him
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
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
more: casey.prof
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Comix Action @comixaction.com NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action.
comixaction.com
buttondown.com/comixaction
Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social NYC families fighting for climate justice with our hearts and our kids. ClimateFamiliesNYC.org
Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social A grassroots network of parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 222 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
NYC DSA Tech Action @nycdsatech.bsky.social Working Group of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America investigating the political, social, and economic effects of new technology.
https://linktr.ee/nycdsatechaction
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/
Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools. Please watch my shows and please also join SchoolsBeyondScreens.com!
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
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
No Desert Data Center Coalition @nodesertdatacenter.com We're fighting to stop the development of heat-generating, water-guzzling, energy-draining hyperscale data centers in the Sonoran Desert! We're a leaderful coalition of people based in Southern Arizona. Join us! https://tinyurl.com/nddcjoinus
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
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
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social • En defensa de las Autorías de habla hispana frente a la irrupción de la IA generativa - Manifiesto: https://arteesetica.org
• Contacto: arteesetica@proton.me
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
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
Follows are not endorsements.
Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca He/him. Fighter, writer, work-all-nighter. Ace. Sewer Socialist. Raver. ADHD. Toronto. Organizer, not organized. #HappyHardcore keeps me going. Democracy first and always. Canada strong. For campaign account, follow @VoteTim.ca
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
cospr.net
Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium @pairs.site A space to share research and practice that puts affected communities at the heart of AI development and governance. More at https://pairs.site
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Tech & human rights lawyer @ tekhnoslaw.ca
⚖️ Senior Fellow @citizenlab.ca | fmr @cippic.bsky.social | fmr @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
🎓 LLM @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social | JD @UVicLaw
🤸🏻♀️ Capoeirista
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
Magic Canoe @magiccanoe.bsky.social We are a bioregional storytelling platform seeking to radically transform how we see the world, and how we act in it. Magic Canoe champions what works through uplifting stories of remarkable individuals and communities in Salmon Nation. magiccanoe.org
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
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Host: Bright Green Futures podcast
https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn
"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes"(used to perpetuate more crimes).🔨
Working on a feminist romantasy with plant magic.
Gander Social @gandersocial.ca The social media you want. Built for Canada.
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south. Built on AT Proto.
https://gandersocial.ca
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 🏳️🌈
350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social 🌍 We’re tackling corporate greed and the climate crisis. Let’s build a liveable future for all of us. https://linktr.ee/350canada
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.”
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social Fighting for better transit in Metro Vancouver! 🚌🚎🚞⛴️
https://movementyvr.ca
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal 
Vancouver Public Space Network @vpsn.bsky.social Last Candidate Tickets: https://thecultch.com/event/last-candidate-standing/
VPSN website: vancouverpublicspace.ca
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @blueprints.bsky.social A podcast dedicated to amplifying activism and organizing our communities.
https://bpofdisruption.substack.com/
🎧 https://podfollow.com/blueprints-of-disruption
YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social Head @ Keep Beyond
Liberation strategy + Tech justice
ykhong.com/here
Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed. https://linktr.ee/humrespro
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 
Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social Senior writer @breachmedia.ca
Website: breachmedia.ca
Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686
Bookings: Scott Sellers
ssellers@penguinrandomhouse.com
Da(N95)iella [fka DaniAtomicus] @sharpflower.bsky.social MSc. Pop’n & Public Health. Black. Immigrant. Chaotic bi. She/her. Public health & liberation. Opinions mine.
I make the Public Health is Dead podcast 💀🖤
📍Stolen MST land (Vancouver)
🕸️ publichealthisdead.com
Support my work: http://ko-fi.com/daniella3774
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
decidim.org @decidim.org Free/libre open-source participatory democracy for cities & organizations| @decidim@freeradical.zone | 👉 linktr.ee/decidim.org
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/
West Coast LEAF @westcoastleaf.bsky.social We're a not-for-profit in BC striving to end gender discrimination through equality rights litigation, law reform, and public legal education. Check out our work: www.westcoastleaf.org
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Learn with us @uwt-real.bsky.social Undergraduate students presenting their work to teach back & bring awareness to law, policy and legal frameworks in the US.
Trolls will be blocked.
Women Transforming Cities @womentcities.bsky.social We reshape who cities are built by and for so that communities’ needs are met and everyone can belong, participate, and thrive.
https://linktr.ee/womentcities
Leadnow @leadnowca.bsky.social Uniting and mobilizing progressives in Canada for a just and climate-safe future for all.
leadnow.ca
crescent justice collective @cjcollective.bsky.social pop-up resistance / community bulletin / education / amplifying people of conscience & justice - - yvr • yyc • dm to collab
🍉 🌈✌🏽
linktr.ee/crescentjusticecollective
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)
Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social 2Spirit/Cree/Treaty 4
First Nations Personal journey. Exploring colonization, decolonization, healing, &
culture. www.decolonizemyself.ca
Lausan @lausanhk.bsky.social Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas
www.lausancollective.com
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting (at the moment it’s mostly grief-posting) until the end. Profile pic is my mom. (she/they)
talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Massy Books @massybooks.bsky.social Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇
https://linktr.ee/MassyBooks
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org