Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social CEO of Microsoft AI | Author: The Coming Wave | Formerly co-founder at Inflection AI, DeepMind
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
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Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social Doomer working towards acceptance of the NTHE. WASF. Aligned to nature, and an ecocentric worldview. The wealth of the planet is in its biodiversity.
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
Airwars @airwars.bsky.social The civilian harm watchdog.
We also run the Open Source Munitions Portal @munitionsportal.bsky.social
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social Demonstrably less delusional than Mark Cuban.
Director of Investor Protection - Consumer Federation of America. Former: Crypto Adviser to Gensler SEC. House and Senate Banking Committees.
David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com I research semiotic failure modes of AI systems.
Discoverer of a whole mess of exploits.
Former Lead for AI Research at Gazzetta.
Helped organize a bit of tbdcon.ai
Spoke at HOPE_16 and IACS-6.
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Etienne - Tek @tek.randhome.io Technologist @ Human Rights Watch (previously Amnesty, Citizen Lab)
Malware, Threats, Online Investigations, Disinformation, Human Rights and silly memes.
On Mastodon: tek@todon.eu
Also on https://maynier.eu/
Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
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
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social Emerging technology and science for ACLU
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
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Jennie Erin Smith @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social Write about science and people, now for @science.org. Corazón colombiano. My book, VALLEY OF FORGETTING, is on sale from @riverheadbooks.
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95.bsky.social writer & editor covering China | journalist-in-residence
@tarbellcenter | writing a book on the Chinese Internet for
@AAKnopf
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It's pronounced "juggernaut" without the "jug"
Charles Mok @charlesmok.bsky.social Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator Research Scholar | ISOC Trustee | ICTTM Board | Tech for Good Asia | DSET Taiwan consultant | Ex Hong Kong IT Legislator, HKNet | Purdue ECE Grad & Advisory Board | https://charlesmok.substack.com/
Oleg Shakirov @shakirov2036.bsky.social I study Russian foreign policy, cyber security, arms control
Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org
Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk.bsky.social Onderzoeksjournalist Volkskrant
Going dark
h.modderkolk at volkskrant.nl
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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor of TIME. Author of “Information Wars: How We Lost the Battle Against Disinformation” & the audiobook, “Mandela: The Lost Tapes.” Analyst @MSNOW
The High Side @thehighside.bsky.social Investigative and enterprise national security news you won't find elsewhere, found at TheHighSide.substack.com and run by @SeanDNaylor.bsky.social and @JackMurphyRGR.bsky.social.
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social Official account of Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari, Representative for Arizona’s Third Congressional District.
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social Rochester Institute of Technology professor of practice: law, criminal justice, journalism & political science; Pulitzer Prize for NYTimes tax reporting; 4 NYT best sellers; DCReport.org co-founder; 8 grown children; AKA Mr. Jennifer Leonard since 1982.
Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social National Security Coordinating Producer at CBS News | Marine infantryman + Afghanistan veteran | Fan of Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
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Sam Lair @slair.bsky.social Fellow at FPRI | MIIS NPTS '24 | RTs/views my own etc. Also @sam_lair on Twitter
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social A Middle East-based journalist and geopolitical analyst in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by way of Egypt, Nigeria, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
James Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University http://csas.earth.columbia.edu | Formerly Director of NASA GISS | jimehansen.substack.com
columbia.edu/~jeh1/
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
Val @vallha11a.neocities.org Valentina | @vesinfiltro.bsky.social @conexionsegura.bsky.social
Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social "a Washington lawyer whose practice representing people about security clearances is part of an entire legal subspecialty made possible by the current system." - Politico
Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Sr. Advisor @econliberties.bsky.social. Co-host @thefairfightpod.bsky.social.
Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social International assignment editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard // New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
Mark Welch @markwelch.bsky.social • ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him
• law, journalism, education, security, privacy, surveillance tech, AI fairness, bias, face recognition, Blue Dot, LFL steward
• Springfield MO <NorCal <NH <MA <WI
• UC Berkeley JD'89; UMass Amherst BA'83
Elizabeth Dickinson @dickinsonbeth.bsky.social Deputy Director for Latin America @crisisgroup.org. Past lives in the Arabian Peninsula and West Africa. Ex-journo, @economist.com @foreignpolicy.com. Runner.
Amir Rashidi @ammir.bsky.social Security and Internet Access Researcher focusing on Infosec, privacy, cencorship and surveillance
Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social Forbes senior writer, covering privacy, surveillance and cybercrime. Editor of The Wiretap newsletter, featuring all of the above.
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ Deputy Local Editor, East Bay Times
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
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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"
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Ewald Scharfenberg @ewaldsvi.bsky.social Miami-based Venezuelan journalist. "Ne te quaesiveris extra". Director https://armando.Info
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him. Galveston BOI. Born at 314.8 ppm CO2.
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me Journalist/technologist, @financialtimes.com Visual Investigations
📍London
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
@gingerthompson.bsky.social @gingerthompson.bsky.social
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
J.B. Branch @jbbranch.bsky.social Tech Policy advocate at Public Citizen. Fighting for AI accountability, data privacy, and tech that works in the public interest. All views are my own.
CYBERWARCON @cyberwarcon.bsky.social CYBERWARCON is a one-day conference in Arlington, VA focused on the specter of destruction, disruption, and malicious influence on our society through cyber capabilities.
cyberwarcon.com
Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social Active Measures, LLC is a full service research and writing firm. For details see activemeasuresllc dot com or reach out to walkin [at] activemeasuresllc [dot] com.
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Troy Thibodeaux @thibo.bsky.social Working on AI for The Associated Press. Living in New Orleans. Tourist in my own home town.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
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Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno @mariamcfarlandsm.bsky.social CEO @represent.us. Working for a US govt accountable to the people. Advocate, author, lawyer. Past: @hrw.org @drugpolicy.org. English/Spanish.
RepresentUs @represent.us Government for the People, not just the Powerful
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Wojska Obrony Cyberprzestrzeni @cyberwojska.bsky.social Witamy na oficjalnym profilu Wojsk Obrony Cyberprzestrzeni. To miejsce, w którym na bieżąco informujemy o działaniach CyberWojsk.
St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social Reporting for the SF Chronicle. RPCV: Paraguay. Call me ‘Sinjin.'
Signal: stjbs.82
Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social Reporter, writer, editor. Sp./Eng. He/him. Stories: NYT, Guardian, Atlantic, Esquire, TIME, LAT, Reuters, AP, Scalawag, more.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social Author of legal thrillers. Husband, father, grandfather. Lawyer, teacher, public speaker. Taller and funnier in person.
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social Features Editor, New York Magazine
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Dakota @dakotaindc.bsky.social China-Focused Consultant @SentinelOne | Nonresident Fellow @ACGlobalChina | Adjunct @Georgetown | Unprofessional Cook | ❤️💜💙
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Emma Burrows @eburrows.bsky.social AP European Security Correspondent. Previously with CNN in Moscow & ITN in London. Speak Russian & Spanish
Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social Ex Journalist Bloomberg/FEER/CSM. Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, then Iraq/Egypt with a smattering of everywhere else. Same handle over at Mos Eisley Spaceport. Made wine for a few years. Now training a blue heeler in the CA foothills.
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co