PBS @pbs.org PBS’s editorial independence is central to our work and will never change. We produce trustworthy content that features unbiased reporting.
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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.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @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
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Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Gartenbaukino @gartenbaukino.at Kino von Welt. Seit 1960
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
pjc @patrickjcarr.bsky.social @dogsdoingthings
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
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/
Cinema Politica qathet @cpqathet.bsky.social qathet's local chapter of Cinema Politica, we screen powerful documentaries monthly at the Patricia Theatre, located in tiskwat (Powell River, BC)
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Pull The Plug @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social We're pulling the plug on Big Tech's undemocratic control of AI in the UK. Join the movement!
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Maura Doherty, Ph.D. @molowell.bsky.social Historian. Textile industry. History of capitalism. Women and work. Immigration. Time. Teleology. Epistemology. Knowledge. Discourse. Misinformation. Ai. Microhistory. Heritage. Memory. Expert on the city of Lowell Massachusetts.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
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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
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
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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
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Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social Fighting for your digital rights. Co-Founder & Head of Curation @re-publica.com. Now Founder of @digitalrechte.bsky.social. Berlin. In a past life Founder of netzpolitik.org. Newsletter @ digitalpolitik.de
re:publica @re-publica.com Das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft | re-publica.com
re:publica Vienna | 02.-03.10.2026 | Kulturhaus Brotfabrik
re:publica Düsseldorf | 09.-10.10.2026 | NRW Forum & Ehrenhof
re:publica LA | 08.-10.11.2026
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
@ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social 
Taylor Beauvais @taylorbeauvais.bsky.social PhD candidate at Boston University studying the sociology of AI.
Grad fellow at Rafik Hariri institute for computation and computer engineering.
Teaching fellow for AI Ethics
Machine learning analyst at Open Justice Lab.
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.
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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Christopher Campbell @thefilmcynic.bsky.social VP, Documentary at Critics Choice Association. Executive Producer of the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Find my reviews via @Nonfics.
Dan Tabor @dantabor.bsky.social Senior Writer on http://Cinapse.net | 🍅 approved critic | Member @OFCS, PFCC | email: Dan.Tabor@Outlook.com
Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social Cinematic discovery and discussion. www.cinapse.net
Spencer Althouse @spenceralthouse.bsky.social Editorial Director at BuzzFeed. I write about TV and movies. Oscars enthusiast. spencer.althouse@buzzfeed.com
Kathy Ou🌞 @kathyyouu.bsky.social Writer, critic, filmmaker.
Shenzhen–LA–NYC
www.kathyou.com
IndieWire @indiewire.com The definitive outlet for film and TV news, reviews, and industry analysis.
:Danielle Strle @strle.bsky.social Wow Enthusiast. Chief Product Officer at The Onion. Resume includes Tumblr, Stumbleupon, Getty Images, and NYC's finest Exotic Cheese Shoppe.
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication, specializing in Digital Media, Culture Industry, and Pro Wrestling
I live in The Medium Place (Cincinnati, OH)
Everything I say is me saying it, not my employer…
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Leo Johnson @leojohnsonphoto.bsky.social Photographer and filmmaker based in Glasgow, working across the UK & Europe.
https://www.leojohnsonphotography.com/
Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social assistant prof in philosophy @ maastricht university.
ethics and politics of technoscience.
critical of the hype and critical of the critics.
Sandrine Lambert @sanlambert.bsky.social Postdoc Fellow at UConcordia
Anthropologist analyzing socio-political impacts of digital technologies
Makerspaces + Commons + Sociotechnical Imaginaries + Data Centers + Materiality + Productive city
Fieldwork ➡️ Barcelona / Montreal
sandrinelambert.com
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Raechel Portelli @raportelli.bsky.social Geography professor. ADHD, Curmudgeon, and chaos. Posts are mostly life not work- Orchids, Pets, Art, Running, UP, etc.
Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social Journalist/📽️critic
The A.V. Club • BW/DR • The Seattle Times • The Inlander • TheWrap • IGN • IndieWire • RogerEbert.com
authory.com/ChaseHutchinson
Hire me: chase.hutchinson.writer@gmail.com
Prez Seattle Film Critics Society
SPJWash Winner for Criticism
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
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Aubrey Clayton @aubreyclayton.bsky.social Author of Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science.
I write about statistics, history, and the history of statistics.
Opinions and Bayesian priors are my own.
He/him
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com Shitposter with intermittent bursts of sincerity.
Writer, filmmaker. Selective perfectionist. Full-time creative, part-time human. 6'9" - the world is built for Hobbits. Pretty fly for a bi guy. he/him
Seattle
Valerie Veatch @valerieveatch.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker.
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
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.
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social Executive Director of Citizens Impeachment, a project of Courage for Democracy PAC. Flowers are amazing. Pretty sure our humanity is the thing that saves us, not tech. All these things are related
Ian MacAllen @ianmacallen.bsky.social Author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American, writer, graphic designer, and critic.
Find me at IanMacAllen.com or writing about food on AllTheThingsIEat.com and RedSauceAmerica.com
Former Interviews and Deputy Editor at The Rumpus
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social Subscribe:
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Coffeezilla @coffeezilla.bsky.social Internet Detective Exposing Scams. Follower of Jesus.
Support Investigative Journalism: http://patreon.com/coffeezilla
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Zeke Faux @zekefaux.bsky.social NUMBER GO UP * Bloomberg investigative reporter
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
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
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
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
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
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
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Annmarie Pisano @annmariepisano.bsky.social professional magpie. human-powered comms for good causes, especially in repro, and 🧶 🍜 obsessive.
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Sundance Institute @sundance.org We discover and support independent film and media artists. 2027 #SundanceFilmFestival: January 21–31 in Boulder, Colorado
Learn more: campsite.bio/sundanceorg
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
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Mophat Okinyi @mophatokinyi.bsky.social Founder & CEO at Techworker Community Africa | TIME100 AI 2024 | Ai & Human Rights Activist | Former Content Moderator-ChatGPT | Union Organizer | AI Safety | Machine Learning | AI Ethics | AI Advocate | AI Researcher | Responsible AI | LLM
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Krystal Kauffman @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Activist * Former Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Anthropologist, research fellow at University of Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge & non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, writes about AI and war in Israel & Palestine
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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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.
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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
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
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
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Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
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
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.