nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Hasan Minhaj @hasanminhaj.com OFF WITH HIS HEAD now streaming on NETFLIX 👇🏾
www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81776083
HASAN MINHAJ DOESN'T KNOW now streaming on YOUTUBE/PODS 👇🏾
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe
inbox: oliver@status.news
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Jacob Ward @byjacobward.bsky.social CNN contributor and founder of TheRipCurrent.com covering AI, surveillance, disinformation, platforms, the whole shebang. My book "The Loop" about AI mania is out in paperback. Former NBC, Al Jazeera, PBS.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
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
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
NACDL @nacdl.org The nation’s criminal defense bar association & liberty's last champion since 1958. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) envisions a society where all accused of crimes receive fair, rational, and humane treatment. linktr.ee/NACDL
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Khadijah @upfromthecracks.bsky.social Currently: AI and Computation Researcher, EiC of Logic(s) Former fellowships: AI Now @ NYU, C2I2 @ UCLA, Georgetown Center for Privacy and Incite @ Columbia
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social Helping promote ethics in computing & related professions. Re/posts ≠ endorsement - intended to inspire discussion.
ethics.acm.org is where you can find the Code and other supporting resources #ACMCodeofEthics #IReadTheCode
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
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
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
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
J. J. Ellis Art @jjellisart.bsky.social New York Painter
DM for pricing and commissions
Worldwide Shipping
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Insta: @jjellisart
Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social Software Engineer at #GoogleResearch, he/him/that guy. My views are my own. 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇺🇾 @PedroGonnet@mastodon.green
Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy Leading cryptography (ISE Crypto) at Google.
Opinions my own.
Content usually badly explained mathematics
[bridged from https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
OpenMedia @openmedia.org Fighting for your digital privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right.
Learn more and take action at www.openmedia.org.
Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) @kpc.bsky.social Physics Reporter at New Scientist. Author of ENTANGLED STATES, out now from Beacon Press. Former teacher. Vegan baker. Aspiring gym rat. Croatian in Queens. Queer.
Techno-Optimism Archive @technooptimismarch.bsky.social Documenting the long history of technological hype.
technooptimism.org
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
babycapitalism @anniecait.bsky.social RN, IBCLC, WHNP2B, hot goss & #reproductivejustice4all
📍pgmd
a libi rose @rose-alibi.interferencer.com meat muppet, somehow dr., maintenance & repair & luddism, voluntarily de-convenienced.
this is the most professional account i have.
if i block it's because your profile reads like a bot.
she/they/anything but he.
dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social im rich traditions
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world
@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
avatar: Portrait of B against colorful background
banner: Collage of creative commons illustrations
Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz Blacksky Algorithms | virtual 3rd places run by users [ blacksky.community ]
@moderation.blacksky.app - moderation
move.blacksky.community - migration
@status.blacksky.community - outages
docs.blacksky.community - for support & info
[ blackskyweb.xyz ]
arr @arr.bsky.social 
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social Investigations @nytimes.com
New book: MURDER THE TRUTH: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful https://www.harpercollins.com/products/murder-the-truth-david-enrich
📬 david.enrich@nytimes.com
Signal: enrich.07
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Tony Fadell @tfadell.bsky.social iPod, iPhone, Nest, Investor (Build Collective)
NYT, WSJ, USAToday bestselling author Build
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
Ariane Mak @arianemak.bsky.social Lecturer in British history, Université Paris Cité
Miners, Mass-Observation and Oral History
📖 En guerre et en grève. Enquêtes dans les cités minières britanniques (1939-1945), Ed. EHESS, 2025
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/mak-ariane-fr/
Association française pour l'histoire des mondes du travail @afhmt.bsky.social Créée en juin 2013, l'AFHMT entend promouvoir les recherches qui s’effectuent dans ce domaine.
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social Football. Basketball. Cream cheese.
Editor. Writer.
Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, migration, and nativism. Author of Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089220#preview
Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social Computational demonologist (infosec?), photog, math enthusiast, periodic augmented reality warlord. Peculiar but refined tastes in triangles, cinema, and cocktails. Azad certified.
Signal: bdowney.23
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com.
Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social Entrepreneur-in-residence. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • contributor @coolzonemedia.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • send tips via Signal: stevanzetti.12
Read & support my work: https://linktr.ee/Stevanzetti
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social dangillmor.com/about
Mainly at Mastodon: mastodon.social/@dangillmor
Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Posts en/in Spanglish:
Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social Fired by the Trump admin for doing my job. Forever CFPB Union proud: @nteu335.bsky.social
Previously: Candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland’s 6th district @ElectAlexis.bsky.social | ElectAlexis.org
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
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
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
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire
🌿 @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
🐈⬛ 📖 ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES out now!
🖋️ get your grief advice on @allmydeadcats.com
✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art Grilled Cheese Award Winning, Fully Automated, Luxury Anarchist Syndicate
Posts written in a kind of obsolete vernacular.
🔀⚧️
Shared Brain - they/she/he/I/my/we/our in a constant superposition
Commissions & Shop: https://moxiest.art- U Udbhav Tiwari @udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social
- T Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social Safe and robust AI/ML, computational sustainability. Former President AAAI and IMLS. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University. https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com I help good people make good games in good ways. https://ramiismail.com/
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social a dyke who hacks on things. she/xey/ey.
defnotbeka@twitter.com
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social
Strategy Theory @strategytheory.com How might we evolve the ways our systems think?
A primer on cybersystemic decision-making. What it is, what it isn't, and what it may be in the near future.
Readying for 2026.
An @opsops.com project.
Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social Ru’s dad, but views are my own. Congressional PR Flack.
Mark Histed @markhisted.org Lincoln liberal, 2nd inaugural enthusiast.
Information processing in networks. Brains, models, lasers.
Prev: media policy for democracypolicy.network. All views are my own.
linktr.ee/markhisted
neuro: 🧠 /🧪
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Sam Kimbrel @skimbrel.northsky.social enby & queer & AuDHD af | non-LLM computerer | too many hobbies | program chair @northbaypython.org | “is usually underestimated. try again. no again. still no.” —@chrisjrn.fyi | they/them | fuck fascists
also occasionally at wandering.shop/skimbrel
Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
Jacqueline Alderson @jacqalderson.bsky.social 🦴 Professor of Biomechanics
🌻 Director of Tech and Human Performance, Special Advisor LA28, DataX, University of California Los Angeles
🧱 Adj. Professor, Griffith Uni
⚡️Hon. Professor, Uni of Queensland
💍 Official keeper of the laundry
🐕 Dog person
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Leevi Saari @leevisaari.eurosky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com Building Digital Ecosystems at Google.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke
He/him.
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
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social Your neighborhood legal historian with a focus on constructions of race & antisemitism in US law. She/her (was @queenmab87 at the other place)
https://open.substack.com/pub/miabrett
Christian Bernieri - DPO @garantepiracy.it “A fucking good DPO”
“un DPO cazzuto come pochi”
"...tanta roba!"
"il TechnoViking dei DPO!"
Data Protection advocate. IAPP - CIPP/E
In my defense I was left unsupervised
Ogni cosa è qui: Garantepiracy.it
Peter Hense 🔔🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @peterhense.bsky.social #NAFOfella | Litigator | data, tech, AI | co-host RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation | AI Act Compact: https://shop.ruw.de/AI-Act-Compact/978-3-8005-1960-6 | Passionate about politics, history, animal protection | Loves Rome & The Simpsons | Threema: YTN9VR2P