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.
Kate @katesheill.bsky.social Human rights and migration, gender, sexuality. She/her. London / Bangkok.
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
Al Jazeera English @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social #AlJazeeraEnglish, we focus on people and events that affect people's lives. We bring topics to light that often go under-reported, listening to all sides of the story and giving a 'voice to the voiceless.'
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Susan Banki @susanbanki.bsky.social U Sydney A/Prof, Dir. Master of Social Justice. Kids books author and total ultimate frisbee tragic/zealot. Tweet on Myanmar, Bhutan, diasporas, ocean swimming, teaching, and all funny/shocking things that come my way. https://linktr.ee/susan.banki
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
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Rachel Barkow @rachelbarkow.bsky.social NYU law professor and faculty director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Author of Prisoners of Politics (2019) and Justice Abandoned (2025).
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social In search of new forms of life. Sharing news, podcasts, and opinion about autonomous social movements across so-called North America.
Rahaf Harfoush @rahaf.bsky.social digital anthropologist and NYT best selling author. Digital culture. Emerging tech. Creativity. AI
Jon Hanson @thesituationist.bsky.social Alan A. Stone Professor of Law and Director of Systemic Justice Project, Harvard Law School. https://systemicjustice.org/; https://theflaw.org/; https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/jon-d-hanson/
Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social Resilience, independent of industry. www.criticalinternet.org
Sam Wollenberg @samwollenberg.bsky.social from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs
James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Dog dad.
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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social Art critic, curator and forever blogger https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social An independent publisher. Changing minds about justice since 1992.
lnk.bio/thenewpress
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
Centre for Fundamental Rights - Hertie School @hertiecfr.bsky.social Academic centre of excellence at the Hertie School. Research, teaching and public engagement on contemporary challenges to the protection of fundamental rights.
Lara Witt @femmfeministe.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of @prismreports.org | Co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance and Media Against Apartheid and Displacement | lara@prismreports.org
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
Keren Weitzberg @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social #biometrics #borders #digitalidentity #migration #austerity #STS; senior lecturer in School of Politics and International Relations & IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
From the Sea to the City @fromsea2city.bsky.social A consortium of civil society organizations working with city governments on human rights based migration policies.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Sociology & Co-Director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
👉 https://linktr.ee/standingtogether.en
NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social Noor is a global feminist & movement-driven think & do tank, devoted to building the power of gender justice & progressive movements.
wearenoor.org
Johannes Streeck @johannesstreeck.bsky.social Dirtbag journalist covering the Southern & Western US in English & German.
Print, radio and photos for: Le Monde Diplomatique, Deutschlandfunk, Texas Monthly, Der Freitag, Trails Magazine, ORF...
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com Human. Global. Security.
Nonprofit news about our life with endless war.
https://inkstickmedia.com/
Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social they/them/he; it's good to be back
thoughts on human rights, content moderation, tech policy, and politics.
Lot of writing on Tech Policy Press, though my articles are all over! https://www.techpolicy.press/author/dia-kayyali/
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
@moiralavelle.bsky.social @moiralavelle.bsky.social Journalist based in Αθήνα. Covering migration, borders, politics, gender. Bylines @aljazeera.com, @thetimes.com, @the-independent.com, @npr.org, others. Previously @tovimagr.bsky.social.
Forbes @forbes.com
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
SarahTowle.bsky.social @sarahtowle.bsky.social Award-winning author of CROSSING THE LINE: FINDING AMERICA IN THE BORDERLANDS: “A powerful exposé of the human costs of America’s immigration policies.” - Kirkus Reviews. Contact @ www.sarahtowle.com
Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social Kommunikation und andere Unwahrscheinlichkeiten
Worth Rises @worthrises.bsky.social Dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it targets.
Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social Executive Director at Worth Rises | The prison industry hates me. It’s mutual. Comfortable in conflict. | Views my own
Dave Maass 🔦 @maassive.bsky.social Investigations at EFF, researching border and police tech. Scholar in res. at UNR Reynolds School of Journalism. I also wrote the graphic novel Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis (https://a.co/d/gHsJzAa). New Insta: maassinpublic
noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu About us 👉 http://noyb.eu
Become a member 👉 http://noyb.eu/support
#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
Paromania @paromitashah.bsky.social Executive Director, Co-Founder, movement lawyer at Just Futures Law. Find us at www.justfutureslaw.org or @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social www.northsouthnotes.org
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social Journalist at Mother Jones and elsewhere, author, writer of social media posts on micro-blogging sites. Tips to Amerlan@motherjones.com or on Signal, username annamerlan.30
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
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.
Plixavra Vogiatzoglou @plixavra.bsky.social Postdoc at Amsterdam Law School (ACIL and IViR) | law and technology; human rights; feminism
Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.
Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social Offering research, connection, learning, and practice for organizers and movements working to end criminalization, policing, and punishment. Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba.
Learn more at http://interruptingcriminalization.com/
The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com The Fire These Times is a podcast by writer and researcher Elia @ayoub.bsky.social and friends connecting academics, writers, artists and activists from around the world to “build the new in the shell of the old.”
Part of @fromtheperiphery.com
From The Periphery Media Collective @fromtheperiphery.com Producers of @thefirethesetimes.com, @mutualaidpod.bsky.social, @syriapodcast.bsky.social, Politically Depressed, and more to come.
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Oula Kadhum @oulakadhum.bsky.social Diasporic lives, migration, transnational politics and religion. Leverhulme Fellow @SOAS working on Russian anti-war diaspora.
Lover of food, literature, wine and all things fine.
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/oulakadhum
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social The UK's leading business technology publication - since 1966. Read all the latest news and features at www.computerweekly.com. Orwell Special Prize 2024. We're the team that exposed the #PostOfficeScandal
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
Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
Dr. Akudo McGee @dr-akudo.bsky.social Rule of law, human rights & 🇵🇱 civil society fangirl. Werkzaam bij de Raad van het Openbaar Bestuur. More etiquette than Connecticut. Vegan for life 🌱
Foundation DAHRD @dahrd.bsky.social Diaspora led non-profit, works on democracy, human rights, and rule of law. Born in cafe London hence the name!
Teresa Scassa @teresascassa.bsky.social Law professor specializing in tech law (privacy, AI, data). Gardener.
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
Voice of Witness (VOW) @voiceofwitness.org VOW is an oral history nonprofit that amplifies the stories of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. We partner to document community voices, teach ethical storytelling, and develop educational resources.
Website: voiceofwitness.org
Ida Danewid @idanewid.bsky.social associate professor at the university of sussex - thinks and writes about racial capitalism, state violence, abolition, utopian worldmaking - she/her
Suchitra Vijayan @suchitrav.bsky.social I write books. Founder & Publisher The Polis Project. Teach @NYUgallatin & @columbia. Barrister. Chair, International Human Rights Committee, New York City Bar
SOS Humanity @sos-humanity.bsky.social Humanity 2: Gemeinsam Segel setzen für mehr Menschlichkeit – Leben retten. Menschenrechte verteidigen. #KursAufSolidarität
Humanity 2: Setting sail for more humanity together – Saving lives. Defending human rights. #OnCourseForSolidarity
UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law @kaldorcentre.bsky.social Join us to make positive changes for refugees around the world. To receive our free weekly digest of news from Australia and around the world, visit: https://bit.ly/4bl2hPO
De|Center @thedecenter.bsky.social New home of #DesignFromTheMargins methodology. We transform tech & advocate for #TechAccountability to advance justice & human rights.
New to socials, not the work.
Website: www.de-center.net
Newsletter: https://the-decenter.ghost.io
Manasa @manasanarayanan.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, Loughborough University
Previously journalist. Bylines in The Citizens, The Observer, Byline Times, VICE World News, Tech Policy Press, The Lead, New Internationalist.
The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social We expose Big Tech's harms to democracy.
Parents to The Real Facebook Oversight Board & Independent Sage.
Our newsletters:
https://dispatch.the-citizens.com
citizensreunited.substack.com
You can also find us at https://the-citizens.com
Francesca Fanucci @therealfranfanu.bsky.social International human rights lawyer at European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (@ecnl.bsky.social). Popper's paradox of tolerance suits me like a glove.
Ella Dodd @elladodd.bsky.social Secrèterait for the Committee for Prevention of Torture
Migration specialist
Views my own
I Have Rights. @ihaverights.bsky.social 📍Vathy, Samos, Greece
⚖️ Non-profit asylum law clinic
✊🏼 Defending the rights of people on the move
🔎 Member of the Border Violence Monitoring Network & the Racist Violence Recording Network.
ATLAS Women @atlaswomen.bsky.social ATLAS empowers, supports, and connects women working in, or embarking on, a career in public international law. Empowerment, intersectionality, community. www.atlaswomen.org
ELI5 BSI @eli5bsi.bsky.social 💀 Big Brother is real. We have receipts.
📡 Borders | Surveillance | Resistance
⚡ ELI5 BSI → www.eli5bsi.com
Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social Border Criminologies draws together researchers working in #criminology on #bordercontrol. Retweets/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements.
https://linktr.ee/bordercrim
@zeynabziaie.bsky.social @zeynabziaie.bsky.social
Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Hye Jung Han @techchildrights.bsky.social Passionate about child rights and tech. Human Rights Watch.
@hrw.org
Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance, privacy and 4th Amendment expert
Focused on tech, privacy, and surveillance: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, drones (Also cooking, movies, and baseball)
The Border Chronicle @theborderchronicle.bsky.social Independent journalism with analysis and context from the US-Mexico borderlands. Founded by @mdelbosque.bsky.social & @memomiller.bsky.social Read more and listen to our podcasts at https://www.theborderchronicle.com/
@memomiller.bsky.social @memomiller.bsky.social
The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com Written by academic experts, edited by journalists, backed by evidence
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Kate Robertson @kate-ro.bsky.social human rights, tech, law | senior research associate
@CitizenLab @UofT @munkschool | former criminal lawyer and
@SCC_eng clerk | posts mine
Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social Writer: nytimes, NatGeo, sciam, etc., Disruptive tech editor @bulletinatomic. Author of THE ALMOND IN THE APRICOT | saragoudarzi.com
Signal: saragoudarzi.19
Seebrücke Frankfurt @seebruecke-frankfurt.de sometimes SEARCH AND RESCUE
SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE allways
🔗 https://www.seebruecke-frankfurt.de/
Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org
Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social Marketing for Nonprofits and Thought Leaders | Board: @crushcolonialism.bsky.social | Work: AP, Stand Up For Science, National Writers Union, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Maya Rupert, Pantea Javidan, etc • philmandelbaum.com • aka @awkword.bsky.social
Francesca D'Annunzio @francescadnunz.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration enforcement for @propublica.org
cat mom, multilingual, outdoorsy, nosy, very into FOIAs + touching grass
📩 francesca.dannunzio@proton.me
Signal: FrancescaDnunz.08
https://linktr.ee/FrancescaDnunz
Sha Merirei @merirei.com Irritant to borders, bots, & billionaires 💀
Decolonial comms + digital resistance 🔥
Micronesian (Palauan) | Omo Oshun 🌻 | 50501 National Coms
Mireille Paquet @mireillepaquet.bsky.social Immigration politics, director @irms-concordia.bsky.social
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