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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
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@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social Working on surveillance technology, migration, welfare.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social Co-founder and director at Foxglove, former Reprieve & Open Rights Group.
Scott P. Johnson, MLIS @scottpjohnson.com Sociotechnical systems analyst, research and data engineering, critical information and data studies
anahita parsa (she/her) @anahitaparsa.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇮🇷🌸
Policy Fellow at basicint.bsky.social
prev. Prog Manager at METO
✨ nuclear disarmament and diplomacy, global order, #MENA, peace.
SOAS alum (x2) 🍉
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/
Anna Johansson @ajohansson.wsocial.eu Generalsekreterare, Amnesty Sverige
Director @ Amnesty International Sweden
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
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
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
divijualsuspect @divijualsuspect.bsky.social "wow...everything is computer"
tech and political economy researcher. lawyer. tired.
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divij.me
Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie PhD candidate @hertieschool.bsky.social // 🔍 nuclear weapons and strategic stability // editorial fellow @thebulletin.org // Irish in Berlin // He/they // All views my own but willing to share
jackkennedy.ie
linktr.ee/jack_kennedy
Ibraaz @ibraaz.bsky.social A brave space for art, culture & ideas from the Global Majority.
📍 93 Mortimer Street, London, W1W 7SS
ibraaz.org
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social Writer: nytimes, NatGeo, sciam, etc., Disruptive tech editor @bulletinatomic. Author of THE ALMOND IN THE APRICOT | saragoudarzi.com
Signal: saragoudarzi.19
Tessa Consoli @tessacon.bsky.social Studying digital transformation in/of Swiss upper secondary schools, digital citizenship education and the digital divide | postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich | former upper secondary school teacher | obsessed with mycology 👩🏼💻🍄🌳📚🐈⬛🌈
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social Lead Creature Designer - Avatar The Way Of Water, Avatar Fire and Ash
Past: Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Fox, Universal, WB, Legendary, Sony Santa Monica, etc.
https://linktr.ee/artofzachary
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social Research for a more just and equitable economy. Currently focused on unemployment insurance policy.
Alexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social Tech + discrimination researcher @AmnestyNL.
Likes/shares not endorsements; views my own
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI
Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they
Views my own
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/
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Boxi A. Wu @aboxiwu.bsky.social PhD @oii.ox.ac.uk
Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Lisa Dittmer @lisadittmer.bsky.social Researcher, Children and Young People’s Digital Rights @Amnesty Tech
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Jochen Spangenberg @jospang.bsky.social Human(e)
Media, politics and stuff
Dep Head DW Deutsche Welle R&D
Boards: EDMO, CEDMO, GADMO
Lecturer: Free University Berlin
Media Literacy Trainer: Lie Detectors
More: https://about.me/jospang
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Tech Justice Law @techjusticelaw.bsky.social Reclaiming humanity in the digital age by bringing justice to individuals and communities harmed by tech products.
https://techjusticelaw.org/
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Lys Alcayna-Stevens @lysalcayna.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk | Environmental Justice | Epidemic Economies | Degrowth | Care | DR Congo
Rebellions Are Built On Hope @builtonhope.bsky.social Anti-MAGA. Pro-freedom everywhere.
NYC PROUD!
@lawofprotest.bsky.social @lawofprotest.bsky.social Legal adviser @Amnesty (right to protest & civic space); Visiting @UEALaw; @OSCE_ODIHR Panel on Freedom of Assembly & Association
Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography @oxford-anthro.bsky.social We tackle real world problems through our uniquely wide-ranging approach, producing internationally recognised research & teaching on challenging issues.
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
The Maybe @themaybe.org The Maybe is a media studio, collective, and consultancy challenging the power and politics of tech.
Home to the Computer Says Maybe podcast.
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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
vinit @vinbo8.bsky.social researcher, critical science & tech, Marxism
founding editor @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
vinbo8.github.io
🇵🇸☭
BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group @bsa-asmr.bsky.social The Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Group of @britsoci.bsky.social. See our website to join: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/activism-social-movements-and-revolutions-study-group/about/ #Sociology
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
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.
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social
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.
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @advocate.nyc.gov Official account for the Office of New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams. For assistance, call 212-669-7250 or email gethelp@advocate.nyc.gov.
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com tracking only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, defi, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects since 2021 • created by @molly.wiki
web3isgoinggreat.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Cate Brown @catebrown.bsky.social political investigations at @TheGuardian. formerly @WashingtonPost. power over/power to
tips: cate.brown@theguardian.com
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
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. 🫡
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social Historian| PhD candidate| SW ally/accomplice| Feminist harpy
- Dissertation on sex work in Toronto
- Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thesexworkhistorian
Disclaimer: OPINIONS ARE MY OWN
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Folketinget @folketinget.dk Profil styret af Folketingets administration.
Følg vores sociale medier her:
https://www.ft.dk/da/aktuelt/sociale-medier
Alison Oldfield @alisonoldfield.bsky.social Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies - University of Bristol.Digital tech design and use in learning; disability and inclusion; outdoor learning.
Anne Alexander @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social Author, journalist and researcher. My current writing project explores the political economy of the AI arms race. https://substack.com/@theaiarmsrace
BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more!
Website: www.bisa.ac.uk
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.
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
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)
Valerie Veatch @valerieveatch.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker.
rich gall @richgall.bsky.social milquetoast of human kindness // I write about the work software engineers do // sometimes I write poetry // north east england
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Fatmanur @fatmanurd.bsky.social PhD Candidate @BalsillieSIA & @Laurier | Global Governance | Border Studies, Migration, Gender, Solidarity
@niinalaajapuro.bsky.social @niinalaajapuro.bsky.social Ihmisoikeustyön johtaja / Policy Director @amnestyfinland.bsky.social
Human rights and occasionally choral music.
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.”
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Hands Off NYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social We are 250+ unions, faith leaders, and community groups standing together in nonviolent resistance to protect NYC.
Sign up to get involved:
https://linktr.ee/HandsOffNYC
More trainings and community events coming soon. Stay tuned.
DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social Pushing back against mass surveillance. Based in Redmond, WA.
Cancel Flock! 🚫
Ban ALPRs! 🚫
Petition: ✅ change.org/deflock-redmond
Learn more: ℹ️ deflock.org
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social Industrial design on paper, digital rights in practice, now surviving essays one coffee at a time. Passionate about #borders and #migration issues. #SOASLife
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
Lena Rohrbach @artepovera.bsky.social "Und welche Freiheit dann das erste Nein: Nein, ich will etwas anderes." (C. Wolf, Kassandra)
Referentin @amnesty.de . Blog & MV bei @campact.de
Human Rights & Emerging Tech / Für eine neue innere Sicherheit /👶🧒📚🌱🏇
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Jayapapaya @jayapapaya.bsky.social I work on technology and meaning
In theory and practice
jayapapaya.xyz
nym.com
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com