Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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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🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
HateAid @hateaid.org Denn Menschenrecht gilt auch digital. Wir engagieren uns für Betroffene von Online-Hass und die Demokratie im Netz. Unterstütze hier: https://hateaid.org/spenden
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
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Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
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Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
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Elly Nowell @ellynowell.bsky.social Researcher on sexual violence and law reform at The University of Glasgow/SCCJR. Previous work on Windrush, redress schemes and informed consent.
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Tech & human rights lawyer @ tekhnoslaw.ca
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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.
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Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute 
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Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy @catalystjournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal developing a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target. Published by Jacobin magazine.
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Coalition Against More Surveillance @camsottawa.bsky.social Ottawa residents, activists, and researchers concerned about calls for more surveillance and policing. #CareNotCams #NoCCTVinOttawa #DefundDisarmDismantle
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• roopa • 🍉🇵🇸 @radroopa.bsky.social Taking all the lessons learned from BLM and TRC from my 15 years on Twitter. Applying that anti-racist + anti-colonial lens to the Palestinian struggle against the settler colonial occupation of Israel. FREE PALESTINE. Decolonize. Resist. ✊🏽🇵🇸
Javier Dávila (he/they) 🇵🇸 @xjusticexpeace.bsky.social queer latine award-winning educator/researcher | ex-JW | CREATING RADICALLY LOVING ALTERNATIVES — in exile | abolition + transformative justice + disability justice | SV/GBV prevention | SUPPORT Legal Fund - pinned ⬇️
Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social Running for City Council in Capital Ward 17. I care first and foremost about improving quality of life for residents.
Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social Running for reelection as City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
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blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Fae Johnstone @faejohnstone.bsky.social Gay trouble, personified. Executive Director of Queer Momentum. Fighting for freedom, equality and rights for 🏳️🌈 people in 🇨🇦 (and beyond). Love solidarity, unions, feminism & my community.
Catherine McKenney @catmckenney.bsky.social Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Housing and MPP for Ottawa Centre.
Passionate about housing, transit, healthcare, and community.
Trans/non-binary.
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah @dowusuakyeeah.bsky.social Co-Director of Policy & Advocacy at Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights • @npsia.bsky.social Alum • Rugby fan/player • Black Feminist • Antifascist • She/Her
📍Ottawa
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Joel Harden @joelharden.bsky.social Organizing to be an NDP MP for Ottawa Centre. Choose love, and make good trouble.
Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social 6x award-winning feminist buzzkill.
Franco-ontarienne du nord de l'Ontario.
🏳️🌈 Femme.
I teach community care for a living and wrote a book about why resilience is futile, babyyyy ✌🏻
Actually fun™️
📍Ottawa, Canada
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Occasional Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social Ottawa 🇨🇦 • LRT status updates and municipal commentary and advocacy. https://OccasionalTransport.ca
It takes a village to push a train.
OC Transpo is Occasional Transportation.
Lyra Evans (Ottawa) @lyraevansott.bsky.social Ottawa born & raised. Chemist by education. Former Chair of the OCDSB & former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
Running for city council in Rideau Vanier (Ward 12).
Environmentalist.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!
Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social Gitxsan. Loves learning and working collectively to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations children, youth and families.
Eve Tuck @tuckeve.bsky.social 
ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social Anti-imperialist prairie fish science. Artist. Writer. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
Fish are the future.
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present).
https://freshwaterfishfutures.ca/
https://fishphilosophy.org/
Pam Palmater @pampalmater.com Mi'kmaw lawyer ⚖️ Ugpi'ganjig 🦅Eel River Bar First Nation 🪶WARRIOR LIFE PODCAST🎙️Beyond Blood, Indigenous Nationhood, Warrior Life📕 https://linktr.ee/pampalmater
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Chief Lady Bird @chiefladybird.bsky.social Anishinaabe artist | Councillor | Rama First Nation
MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social Podcasting since 2016, our current series—Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes—dives deep into climate journalism
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com Artist. Metis. The earth is my government.
#antifascist #Landback
mânitow sâkahikanihk âpihtawikosisân.
She/her.
Limited editions: www.christibelcourt.ca
https://linktr.ee/christibelcourt
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ᓅᑎᓂᑐᒫᑲᐣ @cedarsageskoden.bsky.social 38 • nêhiyaw ayahkwew neurodivergent genderfucked disabled mess (they/them) • artist slash ??? • metalhead • weird lil guy
SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social Métis (Nehiyaw/Anishinaabe-Red River) Mom to the BEST kid #caribooclan #MMIWG2S #vinylcollector #bookstacker #beader #Canucks #PNW Your fake jazz DJ 🎵 I have a little podcast buymeacoffee.com/SassyMetisChick
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize + Peabody award-winning journalist http://instagram.com/_connie_walker Nehiyaw from Okanese
Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social Forged in the flames of righteous truth and decolonization, we are Walking Eagle News: proud purveyors of only the finest Indigenous news.
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) counters, monitors, and exposes far-right hate movements, groups, and figures. Fully independent.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com
Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
CBC Pitchbot @cbcpitchbot.bsky.social Status-quo propaganda for the average upper-middle class white Canadian. Satirical. Parody account. Not the CBC.
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Tara Steele @tarasteele.bsky.social AI safety for children | Founder, The Safe AI for Children Alliance | Exploring AI’s potential for both harm and good!
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Policy Options / Options politiques @policyoptions.irpp.org Policy Options - the digital magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (@irpp.org)// Le magazine numérique de l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques (IRPP)
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