Wow if True @wowiftrue.bsky.social unhinged internet culture jaunt ft. tech journalist @amanda.omg.lol and sci-fi author/lawyer @isabel.kim, from @multitude.productions!
the only podcast that will mention neopets and horizontal mergers in the same episode
Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol + senior culture writer, @techcrunch.com
+ podcasting about the internet on @wowiftrue.bsky.social
(@multitude.productions)
+ she/her ✡️
+ sometimes i post about pottery and the phillies
+ my opinions ≠ my employer’s
Justin Pot @justinpot.com I am a freelance journalist and a person. I believe that tech is a tool, not a way of life, and that we should use it to connect with each other. I currently write for Lifehacker, WIRED, The Atlantic, PopSci, PCMag, and The Wall Street Journal. 
issielapowsky.bsky.social @issielapowsky.bsky.social Journalist covering tech, politics, and national affairs. Formerly WIRED and Protocol. Work featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., The Atlantic, and more. www.issielapowsky.com
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Chris Welch @welch.bsky.social Reporter and photographer at Bloomberg
The Verge for a long time before that
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This is the part where I tell you not to follow me and also that this is a Sandra Oh stan account. 
Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social senior tech editor, the verge
Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing Professional orange whip drinker. Freelance tech journalist, often at Gizmodo and IGN. Previously The Verge. Also pubbed at Mothership, Tom’s Hardware/Guide, PCWorld, TechHive, CNN Underscored. He/him/they
Sherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social Tech can be better.
Co-founder & co-lead @eurosky.social
British, Egyptian, with a French connection
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Lee Perry @lee-perry.co.uk I talk about 🚴virtual cycling, 🏃♂️ running, 🕹️playing old video games, 👨💻learning code, 🐕Podencos and Burnley FC 🟣🔵.
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Chris M @chrismcleod.dev Online since before some of you were born.
Tired.
Lead Software Developer, but I usually don't talk about it.
He/him/his. Scotland
⚠️Potential to post Warhammer content
This one time, my brain exploded
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Hiro @hiro.report Writing about Tech, Apple, Gear, and Mindfulness.
Sharing cool finds every Sunday:
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✉️ hi@hiro.report
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Dave Winer @scripting.com OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
Lisa Glass @lmplusg.bsky.social When the covfefe hits the fan, we’ve got each other. 💙💙
Always be resisting!
Positive lists only! 
Taddy Ink @taddyink.com A tool to help comic creators distribute their comics to multiple comics apps + earn money via Patreon exclusives ✨
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Michał Kosmulski @mkosmul.bsky.social Software engineer by day, origami designer by night
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
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👻 @0x0.sigint.team Security. People matter most. Get off X, fool.
Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com).
See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/
“Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles
sug @sugzone.bsky.social jamming in Slug Beat but sometimes I'm on the computer
https://sugarman.zone
iDPI at UMass Amherst @idpiumass.bsky.social The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst imagines, studies, and builds public spaces and public goods on the Internet.
https://publicinfrastructure.org
Matt Karolian @mkarolian.bsky.social Building new things at Boston Globe Media. 80th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard. Teach digital journalism at HarvardEXT. Non-Journalist.
Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social Working to change public policy, rollback corporate power, rebuild local communities. Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Portland, Maine.
MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com Our in depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s happening now to help you know what’s coming next.
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M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com • Writer of spyglass.org
• Investor in some companies you've heard of (and many you haven't)
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Chris Messina @chrismessina.me 😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
🆕 App updates and snark.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag.
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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
Sapna Maheshwari @sapna.bsky.social NYT (@nytimes.com) covering TikTok and emerging media. love consumer-y business news. former retail and advertising reporter. pun fan, Tar Heel, CT native, toddler mom - contact me at sapna@nytimes.com or Signal me directly @Sapna.87
Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com threads.com/@malwaretech
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Max Zeff @mzeff.bsky.social Writing - mostly about AI - for WIRED. I am maxwell, I am max, but I am not well. On signal at Mzeff.88
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social Always learning.
Kyle Morse @kylemorse.bsky.social Deputy ED, @techoversight.bsky.social. Tours: American Bridge, Capitol Hill, and Dem campaigns.
Hope you like content about Arsenal, bikes, punk, and smashing Big Tech.
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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.
Jenn Billinson @jrbillin.bsky.social Media studies prof in Rochester NY, studying digital culture and popular music and emotion🏳️🌈
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Joanna Stern @joannastern.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Senior personal tech columnist @WSJ
📺 Contributor @nbcnews + @CNBC
🏆 Emmy winner, technology and family lover
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
Jim Prosser @jimprosser.bsky.social Pretty good cook, middling guitar player. Founder and Principal, Tamalpais Strategies. | Marin County, CA | https://tamstrat.com
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Ellen Huet @ellenhuet.bsky.social the self is an illusion, but — I write features & podcasts about tech for Bloomberg / Businessweek
also writing a book about an alleged sex cult
ellenhuet.com
Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social Internet culture reporter at The Washington Post. DMs and Signal are open: 513.368.3359
👨🏻💻☕️ @hunterwalk.com Introvert IRL, Extrovert URL
Blogging forever at https://hunterwalk.com/
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Heather Kelly @heatherkelly.bsky.social Tech editor at The San Francisco Standard. Former Washington Post, CNN. hkelly@sfstandard.com. Signal: @hkelly.11
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.
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
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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.
Dan Nicotera @geeklaw.bsky.social Basketball fan, tech enthusiast, and attorney (focused on IP, tech, and government stuff).
Views are not my own, and whatever a retweet is called on Blusky does not represent an endorsement
Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social Tech Columnist at The Washington Post. Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Dwight Silverman @dwightsilverman.com Retired, getting better at it. 30+ years as a tech guy at the @houstonchronicle.com, but no longer columnizing. Still an aspiring cat lady, passable iPhone photographer. Also at https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman, https://www.threads.net/@dsilverman
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Cecilia Kang @nytceciliakang.bsky.social NYTimes Tech Policy Reporter, co-author "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination" with @sheeraf.bsky.social
Also tree, moss, boulder hugger from PNW, transplant to the Potomac
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliakang
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
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
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https://sambiddle.com
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social Now: Making Decoder @ The Verge. Earlier: editor for Protocol; reporter for Ars Technica, CQ Roll Call, Consumerist, and Kotaku; decades of other writing strewn across the internet. Boston-born, now DC-dwelling. She/her.
Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social Senior congressional reporter @bgov.com covering financial services. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01
MeidasKiesha ™️ @meidaskiesha.bsky.social I’m here to build, promote and support @MeidasTouch.com
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Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social Prof @umnsph.bsky.social; studies media & politics & health policy & public opinion; teaches ethics & health policy. Member of COMM HSP research team @commhsp.bsky.social. Wesleyan & UMich alum. Editor of @jhppl.bsky.social
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Jonas Kaiser @jonaskaiser.bsky.social | Assistant Professor @ Suffolk University
| Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Jon Penney @penney.bsky.social Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oxford (OII / Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
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
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org