Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, host of Civic Forum with Rory Truex. https://linktr.ee/civicforumpod
Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social Staff writer on science, tech, and health at The Atlantic covering AI. Signal @matteowong.52
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Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
humphrey ✨ @hoctopi.bsky.social cities, technology, and democracy | Oakland, CA
Hard Reset @hardresetmedia.com https://hardresetmedia.com/
Hard Reset is a media publication for people who want to understand how technology really works — not just the products, but the people and power shaping it.
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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.
Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com https://drafts.interfluidity.com/
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https://zirk.us/@interfluidity
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine. Now in SF!
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Justin Braun @jusbraun.bsky.social Political Science PhD student at Stanford and data reporter at Lighthouse Reports | Dried mango connoisseur
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Micah @micahscopes.bsky.social creative programmer, musician, math and science lover
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
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Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Graham Webster @gwbstr.com Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
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Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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Alex Dobrenko @alexd23.bsky.social Sinner saint no shame. Writer comedian guy.
head of creative at www.sublime.app
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Asterisk Magazine @asteriskmag.bsky.social www.asteriskmag.com
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
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Terminal Value🧃 @valueterminal.bsky.social Cruise ship Zumba instructor. Lapsed CFA Charterholder. Banned from Boat Owners Forum (unjustly)
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Andy Weissman @aweissman.bsky.social www.aweissman.com
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The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
v.a. trinh @vanan.bsky.social Hà Nội, 香港, Ghost of the Wellesley College Political Science Department
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former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
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Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social CM for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social. Used to do AI stuff in the Biden White House OSTP and at Mozilla.
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social https://kneelingbus.substack.com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
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Lila @lilashroff.bsky.social writing about tech @ The Atlantic
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
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Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
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Dean W. Ball @deanwb.bsky.social
https://hyperdimensional.co
Kumar Garg @kumargarg.bsky.social President, Renaissance Philanthropy
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
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
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
rashiq @rashiq.bsky.social @rashiq on twitter
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Jack @tracewoodgrains.bsky.social Storyteller. Romantic. Pursue excellence.
Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social Social dynamics and online culture from the hybrid mind of a terminally online-normie mom
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
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wordsinspace.net
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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
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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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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
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Christina @tweetsweet.bsky.social I write about fragrance at DryDownDiaries.Substack.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
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