patrick @redford.bsky.social i write for defector
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 51 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm in Boring, Oregon.
No dooming in my replies. There's already enough doom in the world.
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Peter Robinson @peterrobinson.bsky.social Working with popstars and music people as a BACP-registered integrative counsellor and on media training, artist development etc. Semi-ex-music journalist (Popjustice etc). Hello!
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Popjustice @popjustice.bsky.social Where the skies are blue, this is what we’re gonna do.
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Deyan Ginev @dginev.bsky.social Software Engineer at arXiv. LaTeXML dev.
The Web was created to share science. Let's keep it that way.
creator of http://ar5iv.org
Peter Forbes @petersforbes.bsky.social Live NW of Chicago | Lifelong midwesterner | proud UW Badger
Work: Responsible AI in finance/banking
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
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Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Nate TeBlunthuis @groceryheist.cc https://tebluntuhis.cc
Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information. Computational social science, peer production, social computing, HCI.
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
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jenn pelly @jennpelly.bsky.social journalist, critic, diarist
author of The Raincoats (2017)
jennpelly.info
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
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.”
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Dave Infante @dinfontay.com reporter covering the beer industry (@vinepair.com), drinking in america (fingers.email), and east end richmond (chlookout.com) | send tips to dave@dinfontay.com, or dinfontay.11 on signal (good tips only, thank you) | more: linktr.ee/dinfontay
Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.eurosky.social
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social Librarian and digital scholarship/data person working in cultural heritage. Also a former journalist and current local journalism booster in #Brooklyn / #NYC
I work for the largest library in the world but all skeets and thoughts here are my own
M @sfpoetess.bsky.social Really into pottery and ONI.
LLMs are like the One 💍: promising effortless accomplishment to everyone but loyal only to the rage and craving within its creators to subjugate and destroy everyone and everything.
Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social Investigative reporter at Consumer Reports covering safety and health; previously covered tech and criminal justice at The Markup and ProPublica. Signal: @Lkirchner.44
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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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
The Lever @levernews.com Award-winning, reader-supported media outlet holding power accountable. LeverNews.com
Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social Former legislator, democratic socialist, housing advocate, founder of Tenants Together. He/Him. Opinions my own, reposts not endorsements.
Kevin Webb @kevinwebb.io Tinkering with semiconductors and copper for ebikes, cargo bikes, and things slightly larger.
Also curious about the pre/post-cloud internet (forecast: 🌤️).
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area. Support working-class journalism: https://bayareacurrent.com/
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Matt Cartmell @mattcartmell.bsky.social Builder of things. CEO of Music Technology UK. Once gatekeeper of coveted cabinet of gearbox photos. PR, journalism, trade association years. Survivor: dot com bubble, indie sleaze, news editors. Jimi and Charli provide much-needed battle anthems.
jmarlena @jmarlena.bsky.social Information Developer & Designer. Ex-GitHub (World's largest code library) Former public library worker. Current public wonderer & professional experimenter. The world needs more wonder. 🌿
I blog and share at https://jessicacanepa.com/.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social car-free urbanist, socialist, semi-lapsed techie, gardener, guitar player. he/him
also on fedi https://carfree.city/@scott/
blog https://scott.mn
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
rekiwi @rekiwi.bsky.social Tech writer, cyclist, solder junky, woodworker, airplane nut, dad, hubby, half-Kiwi (mom's side). Not in priority order. (he/him)
Profile pic: bearded white dude with maniacal expression; hair, eyes, teeth glowing blue under blacklight.
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- D @deuley.bsky.social @deuley.bsky.social
Laura DeCicco @ldecicco.bsky.social Develop and maintain several US water data #rstats packages for the USGS, editor for rOpenSci. Jack of many trades, master of none.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social In print only ⚫️ Issue Two is here ⚫️ Subscriptions are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️
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Patrick O’Gara @pogara.bsky.social 🧗🏼AMGA Certified SPI
☕️ Coffee Roaster
DET, MI & NRG, WV
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social Studying genomics, machine learning, and fruit. My code is like our genomes -- most of it is junk.
Assistant Professor UMass Chan
Previously IMP Vienna, Stanford Genetics, UW CSE.
Christine Brandt @wordbourne.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Sports Fan. Democrat Activist in the Deep South. Tea, History, and Books Enthusiast. From New Orleans.
(Formerly LavishTantrums).
panke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social https://panke.gallery ➠ a dialogue between established & emerging artists dealing with digital & net-based art · /rosa project space in collaboration with @zfn.bsky.social
Colin @colin-fraser.net Anti-spreadsheet person
Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social We are alive and we don't agree.
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social I write about music & my latest book is “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” http://highbiasbook.com/ I host the Music Book Podcast. I am a Nationals & D-backs fanatic. DON'T USE AI.
the white pube @thewhitepube.bsky.social Gabrielle de la Puente & Zarina Muhammad write about culture @
thewhitepube.com
🍋📚 our book POOR ARTISTS is out now all across the world basically
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social EDGI works to build environmental data and governance systems that are more just, equitable, and effective.
Website: envirodatagov.org
Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/cf3rjd46
Volunteer: https://envirodatagov.org/volunteer/
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Peoples Pop Polls: The World Cup Of 1996 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social The Peoples Pop Polls, run by Tom Ewing. Congratulations to ZOHRA, winner of the Pop World Cup for Algeria! Currently open polls: https://peoples-pop.com/2025/10/24/currently-open-polls/ NEXT: The World Cup Of 1996 - Starts 8th July!
Ask a Manager @askamanager.org Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
Lana @lananovikova.bsky.social Product manager in AI. Self-nominated docops and knowledge management evangelist. Memes as a service. Opinions are my own
Ben B. @benbarden.bsky.social Tech Product Manager, coder, composer, gamer.
#php #laravel #nintendoswitch #ps5 #doctorwho
Founder/coder at switchscores.com
https://linktr.ee/benbarden
bani haykal @fdbckfdfwd.bsky.social musician / artist piecing together schematics for polyphonic futures // intimate machines // inefficient instruments // stories about resisting refusal & repair
website // banihaykal.info
music // banihaykal.bandcamp.com
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
Hazel @hzllls.bsky.social Naarm/Tāmaki Makaurau (AUS/NZ) | PhD student in internet art history and preservation
Doug Eacho @dougeacho.bsky.social asst prof of theatre and performance studies at the national university of singapore. 🇺🇸/🇨🇦.
writing a book about automating theatre (surrealism, cybernetics, backstage tech, ai) in which i discover to much astonishment that it was capital all along.
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
Gray Area @grayarea.org Gray Area is a nonprofit applying creativity for positive social impact.
🔗 grayarea.org
Wade Wallerstein @habitualtruant.bsky.social digital anthropologist
associate curator / grayarea.org
co-director / transfergallery.com
content / vivearts.com
founder / siliconvalet.org
aphid @aphid.org net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he
Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
dorian @doriantaylor.com make things. make sense.
• methodandstructure.com
• doriantaylor.com
• senseatlas.net
• intertwingler.net
• the.natureof.software
• mastodon.social/@doriantaylor
• youtube.com/@methodandstructure
• buttondown.email/dorian
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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
igor štromajer · intima.org @intima.bsky.social http://intima.org/stromajer „le Pavarotti du HTML“ · homo ex machina · low-tech post-electric non-artist · artworks in the Centre Pompidou & Museo Reina Sofía collections · a=tF² · https://intima.org · intimate tactical guerrilla + low-tech net strategies
Zentrum für Netzkunst Berlin @zfn.bsky.social http://netzkunst.berlin ➠ reconstructing, archiving and exhibiting pioneering and contemporary net art & culture · /rosa project space w/ @pankegallery.bsky.social · Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin Neukölln/Alt-Treptow
Fairwork @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Rating working conditions in the #digitaleconomy. Let's build a fairer #FutureOfWork.
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
Ayodele is in the 92% @youraibigsis.bsky.social Data Scientist, coffee addict, blerd, and drummer. Octavia Butler stan. Trekkie, survivalist, and pole dancer. ADHDer, elder emo, horror movies, & video games🖤
Book Clerbs:
The AI Con ➡️ lu.ma/q3won50t
Data Grab ➡️ lu.ma/r79kprlz
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Ekaterina (Katya) Babintseva @babintsevak.bsky.social Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
Support my writing:
https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/