Alison Macrina @flexlibris.bsky.social leading library workers against technofascism. more here libraryfreedom.org
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/
FX Coudert @nanoporous.net Senior researcher @CNRS, computational chemist. Professor @ENS_ULM @PSL_Univ. First responder & instructor @CroixRouge. (Opinions are my own.)
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, AI, politics, religion, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, but frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social Assoc Prof UWindsor, Faculty of Science Research Chair; married to @shufflersunite.bsky.social
he/him/you bastard
Probably writing a grant. Big Ottawa Senators Fan.
www.trantteam.ca AND www.binarystarchem.ca.
Total scientific saturation at an epochal pace
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
Claire Valdez @claireforny.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-7 (Western Queens, North Brooklyn). Union organizer, Assemblymember and democratic socialist. Solidarity forever.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
cal newport @author-calnewport.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown · Author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Slow Productivity · Writing about focus, technology & meaningful work.
D.E. Rising @theonetruedoktor.bsky.social OG $TSLAQ Musk troll and Xitter refugee.
Publisher of the Standard Dispatch & Mail on Substack, with daily news and commentary on politics, tech and futurology. Like, share, and subscribe!
https://thestandarddispatchandmail.substack.com
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China and Technology for WIRED. Reporting on everything because everything is computer.
✉️ zeyi_yang[AT]wired.com
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social #NBASky writer at The Athletic
In LA
From Philadelphia
Social media in 2023 got me here😂😳
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Patrick Boyle 💎 @pboyle.bsky.social Founder of Palomar Capital | Visiting Professor at King's College London | Financial Author | YouTuber & Podcaster
Blind Squirrel Macro @blindsquirrel.bsky.social Macro for Civilians. Hunting for acorns in the market for over 30 years. Not anon. Own my views. Get more ruminations of a slightly snarky rodent at www.blindsquirrelmacro.com or at https://youtube.com/@benny_squirrel?si=zcKdZtcvnBTXnzaU on YouTube
ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app ɹǝǝuᴉƃuǝ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
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
susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social assistant professor at stony brook university
writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
Project Sauce NYC @projectsaucenyc.bsky.social Poverty is a Policy Choice and We Choose Something Better.
A Brooklyn based nonprofit fighting poverty with homemade meals and grassroots advocacy
Givebutter.com/psdonate
Projectsauce.org
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social ✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨
Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor
She/her
Cape Fear Advisors @capefearadvisors.com Independent structural analysis of public companies. Reading the filings, the cash, and the structure beneath the narrative. By Greg Collins.
Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org Our network of grassroots groups is organizing in cities across the country to win good jobs, affordable homes, and thriving communities on a livable planet.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
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
Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area. Support working-class journalism: https://bayareacurrent.com/about/#/portal/signup
Wendy Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social the one and only @dellsystem
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Laura Bratton @laurabratton.bsky.social AI reporter at The Information. Prev Yahoo Finance, Quartz, The Messenger. She/her
Signal: laura.bratton74
abby. @abbyhorchata.bsky.social Bratz™ historian
she/her
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about
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
Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org Nonprofit, nonpartisan Mississippi newsroom working to create a more informed Mississippi. Sign up for our newsletters: https://buff.ly/3qmiDim
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161
On Signal: davidingram.77
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social
Founding Director, End Climate Silence
Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It*
genevieveguenther.com
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.
J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. 🍉 #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸
📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
https://mijincha.com
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.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
charli xkcd @ky.fyi body { will-change: transform; }
💌 https://ky.fyi
📺 https://hypertext.tv
🏳️⚧️ @namesake.fyi
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
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Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social We’re a publisher dedicated to extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers and their work.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/privacy/
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
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
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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.
A. Das @rohandas.bsky.social Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
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
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Assoc Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Kyle Chan @kyleichan.bsky.social Princeton postdoctoral researcher. Focused on industrial policy, clean tech, infrastructure, development, China, India. Newsletter: http://high-capacity.com
Vordio @vordio.net Audio geek. Also make tools for sound editing, sound design & post production. https://vordio.net/
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Taggart @taggart-tech.com @mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Displaced Philly boy. Executive Director of @ifin-intel.org. Threat hunter. Educator. Dad. General in the AI Resistance.
taggartinstitute.org
wtfbins.wtf
linktr.ee/mttaggart
Surf @surf.social Surf the social web. Create feeds for any interest or community.
Visit surf.social.
Get the app: waitlist.surf.social
phylan @phylan.website
Pagebound @pagebound.bsky.social An indie, anti-AI social book tracker that’s like if Goodreads and Reddit had a baby
(on the web at pagebound.co + iOS + Android)
linktr.ee/pagebound
Missy Cummings @forrealflygirl.bsky.social Stop supporting Amazon and Apple - their CEOs are bankrolling the war on America
Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
In het Nederlands maar soms also in English!
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
温哥华🇨🇦多伦多
it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social Saint John Paul II recognized that unemployment is a grave evil
Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/
Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social Murray and Kathleen Bring Prof., NYU Law. IP, antitrust, behavioral econ, occasional con law (bad for my health). ssrn.com/author=370802. Partner, lex-lumina.com. https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=37891
gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social texas culture reporter for @chron.com
console cowgirl, houston based, go stros 🏳️⚧️
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Meowdelyn🏳️⚧️ @meowdelyn.bsky.social I do art, I make memes, and occasionally I ponder the orbs.
She/Her, artist, very tired.
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social researcher @ Data & Society
anthropologist, etc.
she/her
https://datasociety.net/people/garofalo-livia/
views, at least those, my own
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
GitHub Next @githubnext.com We are a team of researchers and engineers at GitHub who prototype the future of software development.
Projects: https://githubnext.com
Discord: https://gh.io/next-discord
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)
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social Democracy nerd, DC politics guy, public-interest lawyer, Jewish American. Live Free or Die. Views and puns solely my fault; everything else is fedsoc’s fault.
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
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