Douglas Farrar @douglasfarrar.bsky.social Opinions expressed are mine and should be adopted by you immediately.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries @jenvalentino.bsky.social New York Times reporter on the investigations desk, focusing on technology and data journalism. Reach me on Signal at jenval.06 https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-valentino-devries
David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social New York Times Opinion writer and New York Times Magazine columnist. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (https://tinyurl.com/dwwnyt). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.
https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/david-wallace-wells
asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social AI & tech policy, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. My own views.
Julia Love @julialove.bsky.social Tech reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek.
Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social Official page for San Diego City Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera, proudly representing the 9th Council District.
Eric Gardner @ericgardner.bsky.social Cover business at More Perfect Union
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social Assistant Professor, primary care physician, and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT); *views expressed here are my own*
Frank Cervarich @frankandsense.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/frankandsense
Jonathan Vanian @jonathanvanian.bsky.social Journalist for CNBC
Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social Girl dad and Sr. Writer at Inc Magazine. Tech, startups, billionaires, outsiders, investigations. Big face, small razor 🪒
Proton: Sam_Blum1905@proton.me
Signal: Sammblum.89
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Sally Hubbard @sallyhubbard.bsky.social Author, Monopolies Suck | Senior Fellow Open Markets & American Economic Liberties | Former DOJ Antitrust Division
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
stuart styron @stuartstyron.bsky.social director of strategic initiatives at SeedAI
tech and telecom policy
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Gretchen Marina Krueger @gretchenkrueger.bsky.social Researcher affiliated w @BKCHarvard, Volunteer @evitable. Previously @openai @ainowinstitute @nycedc. Views are yours, of my posts. #justdontbuildagi #talktomenotchatgpt
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social assistant professor at stony brook university
writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Max M. Miller @maxmmiller.bsky.social Antimonopoly advocate. Former advisor to FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya. Check out www.thefairfightpod.com. Opinions are my own and occasionally align with more intelligent and more powerful people.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Andrew Heimert @andrewjh.bsky.social 
Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social National Director: @workingfamilies.org | Co-Founder: Blackbird | Board: Brooklyn Movement Center, Center for Popular Democracy Action, United for Respect | Always: Movement for Black Lives | Text MOE to 30403. he/him
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Ben Brody @benbrodydc.bsky.social Tech policy reporter at Punchbowl News. Formerly MLex, Protocol (RIP), Bloomberg News and lots of others.
Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social Subscribe at http://punchbowl.news. Power. People. Politics. #punchbowlnews
Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. All views are my own.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
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)
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/
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business asst prof at penn state, workers/AI/surveillance. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social Fighting for your digital rights. Co-Founder & Head of Curation @re-publica.com. Now Founder of @digitalrechte.bsky.social. Berlin. In a past life Founder of netzpolitik.org. Newsletter @ digitalpolitik.de
Krista Pawloski @kristap.bsky.social she/her
Organizer - turkopticon.bsky.social
My time is spent on advocacy including worker rights, environmental concerns, and queer rights
🌈🍉
Malicious compliance is my resistance plan.
Krystal Kauffman @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Activist * Former Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
Turkopticon @turkopticon.bsky.social Data worker advocacy group fighting for better treatment on all platforms.
Our organizers on Bluesky:
@kristap.bsky.social
@brookh.bsky.social
Rory Van Loo @vanloo.bsky.social Law professor at Boston University focused on digital technologies, consumers, markets, and regulation. Previously consulted at McKinsey after law school, made sandwiches in Paris during college, and sold newspaper subscriptions door-to-door in 5th grade.
Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social Associate professor of law at @nyulaw.bsky.social. Director of the Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). He/him. https://chrismorten.com/
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
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.
Yann Sweeney @yanniscaus.bsky.social Editor at Nature. Handling AI, computing & robotics. views my own
Josh Goldstein @joshagoldstein.bsky.social Research Fellow @Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).
Studying emerging tech, national security, and online manipulation. Trying to bridge the academia/policy divide.
https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/josh-a-goldstein/
Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social Dog dad and Georgetown law prof.
Melissa Heikkilä @melissahei.bsky.social AI Correspondent at the Financial Times. Formerly senior reporter for AI at MIT Technology Review
Jake Goldenfein @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social Melbourne Law School, CI at ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society - Studying data governance, data commodification, and automated decision-making.
Emile Ayoub @emileayoub.bsky.social Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center | Lakers enthusiast | LA raised, NY based, 🇱🇧 heritage | views my own
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social Director, Liberty & National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice. Raised in Austin TX; in DC for last 20+ years; MA/WA/IL/CA/NZ in between. Owner of extremely cute dog.
Barton Gellman @bartongellman.bsky.social @BrennanCenter | ex Atlantic, WaPo | Author, Angler & Dark Mirror | bartongellman.com/contact
Margarida Silva @margaridasilva.bsky.social I research Big Tech's power and campaign to limit it at @somoamsterdam.bsky.social
Jack Corrigan @jack-corrigan.bsky.social AI + competition policy @CSETGeorgetown | previously @NextgovFCW, eventually @UMichLaw 
TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Owen J. Daniels @ojdaniels.bsky.social Writing on AI, security, & democracy. Associate Director of Analysis & Andrew W. Marshall Fellow at CSET. Probably behind deadline.
Working on a book on AI and military affairs for Polity Press.
https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/owen-daniels/
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Nicole Gill @nicolegill.bsky.social Current: Founder & Executive Director, Accountable Tech
Former: Campaigns & comms at The Hub, Tax March, SKDK, etc.
Always: Celine Dion superfan
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
David Evan Harris @davidevanharris.com Chancellor's Public Scholar @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Advisor/Fellow: @BrennanCenter.bsky.social, CA Initiative for Tech & Democracy, Int’l Computer Science Inst., Ctr. for Int’l Governance Innovation
https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/harris-david/
Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social Professor, Fordham Law School
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1084259
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/ 
Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
Aviya Skowron @aviya.bsky.social Head of Policy at EleutherAI. They/them. Working at the intersection of open source and AI policy. Former philosophlete.
Kevin De Liban @kevindeliban.bsky.social founder @techtonicjustice.bsky.social | defeated Medicaid care-cutting algorithm | legal aid lawyer | rapper | economic + racial + AI justice | sci-fi + fantasy | Warriors | he/him
Learn more of how AI harms low-income people: techtonicjustice.org
David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social Tech reporter at NBC News. Based in San Francisco. I write a lot about Elon Musk. Read my latest work here: https://www.nbcnews.com/author/david-ingram-ncpn890161
On Signal: davidingram.77
Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social Head of ML & Society at Hugging Face 🤗
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social We are 50+ grassroots orgs who represent 1M+ members across the US, building democratic power to end Amazon's abuse of our communities / #WeAreAthena
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social Currently @mayor.nyc.gov. Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.
The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social A grassroots public interest newswire amplifying stories from struggles for social, racial, and environmental justice. Posts by Andy Stepanian.
https://sparrowmedia.net
Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social Asst Professor of Global development at Cornell University, book: Automation and the Future of Work with Verso. New articles on “beyond capitalism” in NLR and at my website. http://www.aaronbenanav.com
Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com Director, Industrial Policy & Trade, @RooseveltInstitute.org, @RooseveltForward.org. Political scientist of economic transitions, administrative states, Bidenomics, Trumpnomics. PhD.
Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social 🌩️INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD🌩️
Discover our new fellows now: thekill.cloud
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social Tech & human rights @cdt.org
Posts, thoughts, dreams my own.
Not Alia Bhatt
aliya-bhatia.com
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
bostonreview.net/newsletter
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Sacha Sloan @sachasloan.bsky.social Investigative journalist covering corporate power in tech at The Capitol Forum.
Email: ssloan at thecapitolforum dot com
Signal: sachas.01
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
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
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.
Damini Satija @daminis.bsky.social Tech, justice, human rights.
Director, Amnesty Tech. Head of Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International USA.
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.