Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Sam Sanders @samsanders.bsky.social Lapsed journalist. L.A. based. Texan forever. Listen to The Sam Sanders Show, a radio show all about the things that entertain us. Twice a week wherever you get your pods, and on YouTube.
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Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social Aka @c_c_krebs over there
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Jamie Neikrie @jamiedemocracy.bsky.social Democracy and tech reform advocate | Legislative Director for Issue One
Jon Steinman @jonsteinman.bsky.social dad, dog walker, Nebraskan
Democracy advocate
*and because time is short, cofounder of workfour.org
Skeets my own
Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Media commentary & analysis; social media, election admin & voting tech. Lapsed poli-sci academic. Likes: democracy, facts.
http://linkedin.com/in/eddie1perez
Board of Directors @osetinstitute.org
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, reformed oboist and whitewater kayaker, mom of teenage twins. Opinions are my own.
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.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Sam Levine @saalevine.bsky.social Commissioner, New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection @hellodcwp.bsky.social
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
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People's Tech @peoplestechproject.bsky.social Arming movements for liberation with the tools to fight the tech that oppresses us.
peoplestechproject.org
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
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Amy Sample Ward @amysampleward.bsky.social they/them | Co-author of "The Tech that Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists can build an equitable world" with Afua Bruce | CEO at NTEN | Still believe a better world is possible. Opinions always my own.
Solidaire Network @solidaire.bsky.social Solidaire Network nurtures relationships between social movements and donor and funder members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice.
Upturn @upturn.org Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
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The Ferret @theferret.scot Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
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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
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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
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
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Visiting Professor, Kings College London
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
Jeff Kao @jeffykao.bsky.social Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com. Prev. @propublica.org.
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
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Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social @npr.org correspondent reporting on voting, the census and USPS
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Sam Wheeler @samwheeler.bsky.social Executive Director, Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO. Unions are good. Views are my own.
LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social LaborLab empowers workers to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power through education, strategic research, and mobilizing public support in the face of union-busting. LaborLab.us
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
U.S. Department of Labor @dol.gov The official Bluesky account for the United States Department of Labor.
AMERICAN WORKERS FIRST!
Ariel Guersenzvaig @interacciones.org Philosopher of technology. Asst prof. Thinks and writes about how we shape things and are shaped by them. Book: 'The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers' (Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022). Foreigner in Barcelona. interacciones.org
New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org Working to achieve liberation and justice for all disabled people in the South.
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social Researcher, coder, entrepreneur, kind. CS PhD, ex-Google, ElementAI co-founder. En français: @fr.beaudoin.social Current project: https://numeno.ai #FreeOurFeeds
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
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Digital, Democracy, Disinformation
Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social Accountable & equitable tech. Senior Fellow, Foxglove Legal suing Meta. Co-founder Amnesty Tech and @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social
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.
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
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Katya Rogers @katyaotm.bsky.social EP of On the Media: a radio show and podcast about all things media.
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public.
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social I work for readers as the New York Times money scribe. Author of "The Price You Pay for College," teacher of a course about merit scholarships (meritaidcourse.com), Brooklyn now but forever Chicago. He/We/Abba. Gratitude and rage.
David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social @EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
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Barbara van Schewick @vanschewick.bsky.social Law Professor, Stanford Law School (@StanfordLaw.bsky.social). Director, Stanford Center for Internet and Society (@StanfordCIS.bsky.social). Author, Internet Architecture & Innovation.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social NYT reporter covering startups & venture capital
Writing a book about startups in the 2010s🦄
Matt Wood @mattfieldwood.bsky.social VP of Policy at @freepress.bsky.social.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social Blogger at Business Insider, covering tech, business, culture. knotopoulos@businessinsider.com
Joseph Torres @josephtorr.bsky.social Media activist, writer, Free Press/Media 2070, News for All the People: Epic Story of Race & the American Media (co-author). Boricua proud.
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👨💻 AI initiatives at @nytimes.com
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social Expert in weighing medical evidence, cancer, COVID forecasting & mitigation, health disparities, financial analytics. 120 publications. PhD program director. Cancer center program leader.
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.