Georgie @georgien.bsky.social Philosophy PhD @ Edinburgh • philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, political theory • working on a history of the ‘hive mind’
georgienewson.com
Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org Professor of Planetary Computing at the University of Cambridge @cst.cam.ac.uk, where I co-lead the @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk and work on computing for global biodiversity and climate change with @conservation.cam.ac.uk.
Homepage at https://anil.recoil.org
Matthew Prince @eastdakota.com A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Nick Hanauer @nickhanauer.bsky.social Entrepreneur, venture capital, civic activist, author.
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.
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Access Now @accessnow.org We defend and extend the digital rights of people and communities at risk 🌎.
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
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.”
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
@jackw62.bsky.social @jackw62.bsky.social
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Darius Kazemi @tinysubversions.bsky.social It's a-me, Darius
I don't spend much time here, you can find me at https://friend.camp/@darius
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Aaron Parecki @aaronpk.com #OAuth #IndieWeb
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Incoming @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online
🇳🇱
Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
@info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social
JYC @jyc.dev 💯 Enthusiast, 🧡 Open Source
// A French living in Austria.
#OSS 👉 https://github.com/jycouet
#BuildInPublic 👉 https://skyzoo.blue & https://jyc.dev
💻🚴🏃 https://kimbia.app/
Johannes Ernst @j12t.org Engineer, founder, organizer. More: https://j12t.org
Deb Nicholson @eximious.bsky.social I like to talk about cooking, Python, sci-fi and creating a nice world for everyone. (she/her)
Chris Short @chrisshort.net Principal Trainer, KodeKloud | DevOps'ish | Kubernetes Contributor Comms | Open Source | Corgis | Detroit | Disabled Veteran | Views solely mine
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Rude Law Dog @esghound.com Policy, Research, Muckraking, Two time winner of the "Wokest Hedgefund Analyst" award
blog.esghound.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com
Natsec, policing, surveillance
Signal: dell.3030
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Correspondent, Vanity Fair
Signal: @mjnblack.09
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • Sun Tzu • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://www.youtube.com/@DialecticalHouseParty • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Smári McCarthy @smari.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Techie, geopolitics nerd, foodie, pilot, writer. Not necessarily in that order. Used to do politics. Now building strategic resilience systems.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@smari on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom.bsky.social Born out of #SaveTheInternet. IFF advances democratic freedoms in a digital society.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Aspen Digital @aspendigital.bsky.social We convene thinkers and doers to make sense of how our world is changing in the age of AI. @aspeninstitute.bsky.social
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
New America @newamerica.org We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.
TechCongress @congressfellows.bsky.social Recruiting tech talent to Congress.
techcongress.io
Connect Humanity @connecthumanity.bsky.social Non-profit impact fund working to ensure all communities have the internet connectivity they need to thrive | ImpactAssets Emerging Impact Manager
Danny Sriskandarajah @dhnnjyn.bsky.social Chief Exec of @neweconomics.bsky.social
Author of "Power to the People" (Headline Press, 2024) https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/danny-sriskandarajah/power-to-the-people/9781035414277/
Mike Krieger @mikekrieger.bsky.social
Internet Engineering Task Force @ietf.org The overall goal of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing open technical standards.
Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social We are builders of technology, policy experts, and acclaimed communicators. Our work focuses on transforming the incentives that drive technology, from social media to artificial intelligence.
https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/
Project Liberty @projectliberty.io Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io.
⿻ 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/
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Firefox @firefox.com The only major non-profit backed, people-first browser ️🔥
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Sydney Saubestre @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social Working on data and privacy policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Views my own, post-structurally speaking.
Technology & Democracy @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org An issue area of New America made up of programs, projects, and initiatives dedicated to shaping a digital ecosystem that is safer, open, and inclusive.
Lilian Coral @lcoral.bsky.social Artist, dog lover, and memelord. Also, Vice President of @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org and Head of New America’s Open Technology Institute.
@ricardo-diez0.bsky.social @ricardo-diez0.bsky.social
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Melissa DeCapua @mavdecapua.bsky.social
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Peter Singer @petersinger.info Author, Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, The Most Good You Can Do, Animal Liberation Now.
Podcast: petersinger.info/podcast
AI Persona: PeterSinger.ai
Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University.
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Raef Meeuwisse @raefmeeuwisse.bsky.social
Michael Kopp @mkdigital.bsky.social Head of Center for digital Teaching and Learning at the University of Graz (Austria). Current topics: Open Educational Resources (OER), Academic Analytics and (of course) Artificial Intelligence (AI).
New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885.
www.newhumanist.org.uk
Jes Parent @jesparent.bsky.social Let's build a future informed by the folly of present and past, rather than escapism from it jesparent.com/links | @jopro.org
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)
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/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com