Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social Software developer and creative dabbler sharing what I learn along the way.
I write and make videos about programming. I spend a lot thinking about TypeScript, Rust, Ruby, and the web! No AI.
https://brettcodes.com
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social PhD. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia-UK. Interested in the investigation of different political forms, political theory of authoritarianism, democratic political theory, rhetoric and political speech.
The Consensus @theconsensus.dev on software infrastructure
https://theconsensus.dev/weekly.html
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
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
Civics & Coffee: A History Podcast @civicspod.bsky.social Bite-sized U.S. history, brewed fresh weekly. Join me for brief episodes that make the past feel alive.
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
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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. 
AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aim_coalition_nyc
Comix Action @comixaction.com NYC comics creatives against authoritarianism and for community action.
comixaction.com
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Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social NYC families fighting for climate justice with our hearts and our kids. ClimateFamiliesNYC.org
Schools Beyond Screens @schoolsbeyond.bsky.social A grassroots network of parent-led groups advocating for human-centered, evidence-based policies around classroom tech. We're in 222 school districts in 40 states and growing every day. Join the movement at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW.
MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they
no crypto, no nfts, no ai
https://linktr.ee/artofwendyxu
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
NYC DSA Tech Action @nycdsatech.bsky.social Working Group of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America investigating the political, social, and economic effects of new technology.
https://linktr.ee/nycdsatechaction
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/
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
Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools. Please watch my shows and please also join SchoolsBeyondScreens.com!
No Desert Data Center Coalition @nodesertdatacenter.com We're fighting to stop the development of heat-generating, water-guzzling, energy-draining hyperscale data centers in the Sonoran Desert! We're a leaderful coalition of people based in Southern Arizona. Join us! https://tinyurl.com/nddcjoinus
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Arte es Ética @arteesetica.bsky.social • En defensa de las Autorías de habla hispana frente a la irrupción de la IA generativa - Manifiesto: https://arteesetica.org
• Contacto: arteesetica@proton.me
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
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Liat @liatro.bsky.social Educator, climate organizer w/ @climatefamsnyc
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/
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Joy Brennan @joybrennan.bsky.social Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
Jim Lippard @lippard.org I like infosec (esp. threat intelligence), history and philosophy of science and technology, skepticism. (started compsci but phil BA; phil MA to ABD; did later human/social dimensions of sci/tech; career infosec) Mastodon: http://infosec.exchange/@lippard
Thomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at 20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography.
He/him.
absolute horses @jcoglan.com this is him here
I write books about programming --> https://shop.jcoglan.com/
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com A weekly history podcast hosted by @ceaubin.com and a rotating cast of expert scholarly guests - because it's never too late to have haters.
http://www.thisguysucked.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Ray Myers @raymyers.bsky.social Software Revivalist.
Founder of The Coding Agency. Interested in programming languages and formal methods. Learning Chess.
jan Pana Suno li toki pona
Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz bit wrangler ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast ~ they/them
webassembly @fastly
📍🏴 edinburgh
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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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
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.
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
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
Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com Dad, husband, brother, son. Working on Dart at Google, ex-game dev at EA, wrote "Game Programming Patterns" and "Crafting Interpreters". http://stuffwithstuff.com/
Daniel Burka @dburka.bsky.social Designer and product manager. Founder of simple.org, healthicons.org, hardproblems.com. Working on public health tech at Resolve to Save Lives: rtsl.org
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Matthew Knight @mattnite.bsky.social 
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message, Politix.fm;
Formerly: Crooked Media, TNR, TPM; www.offmessage.net/subscribe
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
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
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Neovim @neovim.io Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
Ways to support the project:
- https://github.com/sponsors/neovim
- https://store.neovim.io
- Have fun using it and spread the word
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social Writer/editor, opera singer/voice artist, mom/mama. Editing @mikepod.bsky.social at weekendreading.net. Former: Staff writer at Vox and Rewire, senior editor at The American Independent, others.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Flux @flux.community Flux is a media platform for change, providing in-depth coverage of politics, religion, technology, and media.
We're all about empowering independent voices and telling stories that corporate media can't or won't see.
Founded by @matthew.flux.community
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
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
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social Representing over 1,100 workers nationwide at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. CFPB workers have returned over $21 billion to millions of Americans since 2012
www.nteu335.org
@spacetimedb.bsky.social @spacetimedb.bsky.social 
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
SC Daily Gazette @scdailygazette.com SC Daily Gazette is a nonprofit news site providing nonpartisan reporting and thoughtful commentary.
States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com Fair. Fearless. Free.
The nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization
More about us: statesnewsroom.com
Latest news: newsfromthestates.com
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
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
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.
Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
@anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
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https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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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.”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social Lead research engineer @dairinstitute.bsky.social, social dancer, aspirational post-apocalyptic gardener 🏳️🌈😷
I run workshops @dairfutures.bsky.social. Always imagining otherwise.
they/he
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
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