MTSU Sidelines @mtsusidelines.bsky.social
Editorially independent, student-run news outlet of Middle Tennessee State University
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨
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Atlantic Technological University (ATU) @atu-ie.bsky.social ATU is a multi-campus technological university in the west and northwest of Ireland that delivers a rich combination of academic and research excellence, quality of life and opportunity www.atu.ie
#University #Donegal #Galway #Mayo #Sligo #Ireland
University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social Shaping the world & inspiring leaders since 1845. University of Galway - Where will it take you?
http://universityofgalway.ie
The Irish For @theirishfor.bsky.social Smithereens of the Irish language, curated for your pleasure by Darach.
Irish Independent @independent.ie Support our journalism - become a subscriber to the Irish Independent: https://subscribe.independent.ie/
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social Writing about intersection between climate adaptation and finance. Substack https://susanpcrawford.substack.com
Author of Charleston: Race, Water, and the Storms to Come. Learning all the time.
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech writing Good Technologies: A Practical Primer for Lawyers (coming 2027 @ucpress.bsky.social)
teaching intellectual property, cyberlaw, privacy + technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
making prints, perfumes, + poems @ tepski.tech/art
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social Associate Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, & the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology & society. Princeton U.
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) @mtsuofficial.bsky.social Large Campus. Small Town Feel. Six-time Princeton Review Top 389 Colleges. We are #trueBLUE.
Resisting Project 2025 @stopthecoup2025.bsky.social We've been educating the public about the threat of Project 2025 for over a year. Now it is confirmed as the Trump agenda. Visit resistingproject2025.org (formerly -and still- www.stopthecoup2025.org ) to read our reports on every aspect of it.
@drmarylynn.bsky.social @drmarylynn.bsky.social
Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com We're a campaign to focus attention and resources on building information technologies that serve the interests of people over companies.
It's time to free social media from billionaire control.
Join: FreeOurFeeds.com | Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social writer (Rebel Code, Digital Code of Life, Walled Culture - free ebook download - https://walledculture.org/the-book/), journalist, blogger. On #DigitalRights, #privacy, #surveillance, #openness, #copyright, and #patents. email: glyn.moody@gmail.com
Digital Inclusion Toolkit @diginclusionkit.bsky.social Digital inclusion advice for councils, by councils. Powered by 100%DigitalLeeds and @TechResort. Previously funded by UK Gov
Colin Rhinesmith @crhinesmith.bsky.social (he/they) Associate Professor + Director, Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab @ischoolui.bsky.social | Author, "Digital Equity Ecosystems" @ucpress.bsky.social
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
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
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. 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.
Algorithmic Justice League @ajlunited.bsky.social Join the Algorithmic Justice League in the movement towards equitable and accountable AI.
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Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
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.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Demand Progress @demandprogress.bsky.social Grassroots, nonpartisan organization with nearly 1 million affiliated activists fighting for the rights and freedoms needed for a modern democracy.
Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social Public Knowledge promotes an open internet, accessible communications tools, and balanced copyright laws. Reposts do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
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WPCampus @wpcampus.org WPCampus is a non-profit advancing higher ed through WordPress and accessibility, offering resources and networking for faculty, staff, and students. Learn more at WPCampus.org.
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Community Broadband Networks @communitynets.bsky.social Internet access touches almost every aspect of our daily lives. At CommunityNetworks.org, we have assembled the nation's largest storehouse of information on communities building publicly-owned networks directly accountable to the communities they serve.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance @ilsr.bsky.social Fighting corporate monopolies and building local power since 1974.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
The Free Speech Center @freespeechcenter.bsky.social Non-profit and non-partisan public policy center based at Middle Tennessee State University. Our mission is to support First Amendment freedoms through education and information. freespeech.center
Don Roy @donaldproy.bsky.social Marketing professor, Middle Tennessee State University
Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com Independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to cover Tennessee government, policy and politics. Send tips to @info@tennesseelookout.com.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee.
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
WordPress @wordpress.org Publish your passion with the open source platform that powers the web. Follow for release updates, features, ways to contribute, & more
Naomi Shiffman @naomishiffman.bsky.social data & implementation at the Oversight Board | formerly academics + researchers at CrowdTangle / Meta | fellow at the Integrity Institute and Atlantic Council’s DFRLab | advisor at Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity
Michelle Manafy @michellemanafy.bsky.social I spend a fair amount of time thinking about digital media. I write and speak about media industry topics, ethical tech & the future of work. Researching the impact of AI on journalism.
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
Matthew Leimkuehler @mattleimkuehler.bsky.social Journalism educator by day (MTSU). Music writer by night (GQ, Forbes, Nashville Scene, etc). Midwesterner in Nashville. Strange but not a stranger.
Dr. Katie Foss @ktafoss.bsky.social Professor & Director, School of Journalism & Strategic Media, MTSU. Likes dogs, medical history facts, climbing, TV, and the Oxford comma.
My latest books:
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625348289/capturing-covid/
https://www.umasspress.com/978162534
Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social User experience & product design coach, advisor, mentor, + speaker. Founder of Craft & Rigor. Co-creator of Progressive Enhancement Strategy. Loves pizza & D&D. Past: Meta, AWS, Deloitte, Ubermind. He/him.
Rachel Lovinger @rlovinger.bsky.social Traveler, movie-lover, theater-goer, film festival enthusiast, foodie, amateur photographer.
Content Strategy Hall of Fame (Confab 2023)
She/Her
Kristina Halvorson @halvorson.bsky.social Content strategy mom. Backyard birder. Founder of Brain Traffic and Confab/Button Events. Minnesota strong.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/
Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social The Nashville Banner: It’s good news for Nashville
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com Nashville’s alternative-weekly newspaper since 1989. We cover state and local politics, music, food and the arts — and throw the city’s best events. https://www.nashvillescene.com/
WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio @wpln.bsky.social Nashville's very own public radio. Community-powered trusted news | Nashville | Tennessee | National
Film Ireland @filmireland.bsky.social Your one stop resource for cinema on the island of Ireland.
FilmIreland.net
Bill Callahan @cycbill.bsky.social NE Ohio / Old grassroots digital equity hand / Data has its uses / Don't mourn, organize!
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social The Wayback Machine is a service of the Internet Archive that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites.
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg.bsky.social Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Danny Sullivan @dannysullivan.bsky.social Posts on Star Trek, Star Wars, TV, movies, whatever.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Techmeme @techmeme.com Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
This account shares top-level Techmeme headlines. Visit https://techmeme.com/ for full context.
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social The Other One. Crooked Media, Pod Save America, Obama alum.
Dave Delaney @davedelaney.bsky.social Hyperfocused on improving how we communicate. Founder of Futureforth and the host of the ADHD Wise Squirrels podcast. Links: davedelaney.me. 🇨🇦 + 🇮🇪 = 🇺🇲
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Chuck Bryant @chuckbryant.bsky.social Ky native, Stanford alum, NashviIIe-based nomad. Podcast producer, product strategist, community organizer. Co-founder & CEO at Relationary Marketing & TechFed Nashville. He/him 🏳️🌈
C.C. Chapman @cc-chapman.bsky.social http://CC-Chapman.com Boston area professor, creator, digital dad. I'm trying to leave it better than I found it. Amazing Things Will Happen, Content Rules, Accident Hash, Managing the Gray, The Advanced Guard & more...
Laura Creekmore @lauracreekmore.bsky.social Feminist. Cardinals fan. She/her/all y’all.
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
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.
Edwin Acevedo @edstros.bsky.social Yet another social media account.
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
OPLIN @oplin.ohio.gov OPLIN provides broadband internet for all of Ohio's public libraries, along with other useful services like research databases & web development. This account is OPLIN's only *active* social media account.- A achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social Chikashsha Saya | dissent is patriotic | this is what Joe Strummer prepared us for | thoughts my own
gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social Recovering tech journalist and IoT expert who now works on cybersecurity, IoT, and right to repair for Consumer Reports.