Jacob Bruggeman
Intellectual & political historian writing on political economy, professions, technology, and hackers in the modern US | Examining the ideologies in/of Silicon Valley | Friend, Neighbor, Cat Dad & Baltimorean
@shikhadalmia.bsky.social
President, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. Founder @ismapolicy.bsky.social. Editor, The UnPopulist www.theunpopulist.net. Classically liberal. Hate dogmas, esp my own. Rightwing populism is the threat of our time to liberal democracy.
@theunpopulist.net
Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world. https://www.theunpopulist.net
@oddletters.bsky.social
politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they
@joshuatait.bsky.social
PhD in US history from UNC | Writes about the history of conservatism and conservative thought | Irenic | joshua.a.tait at gmail dot com | https://joshuatait.substack.com
@publicbooks.bsky.social
Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
@kylestine.bsky.social
Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University | Critical Hardware, Nonhuman Cinema, Hardwired Temporalities | All opinions and fandoms my own
@valentinkatz.bsky.social
🎗️Subscribe to my substack https://open.substack.com/pub/valentinkatz
@kschake.bsky.social
Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
@prorogers.bsky.social
Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor Political Science Department @ Brown University Teaches Political Theory Book: The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (PUP)
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
@cmewing.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
@theuniverse.bsky.social
Writer into sci-fi, computers & plants. Wrote a book called Broad Band, co-edited another one called Terraform, hopelessly negligent poster. See also @com.y-a-c-h-t.com https://clairelevans.substack.com/
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@leev.bsky.social
I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
@ericjeisner.bsky.social
History PhD Student at Johns Hopkins. Studied law at Yale. Non-practicing rootless cosmopolitan.
@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social
past solutions for present problems since 2009 // resting on traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations open house hours: post.lurk.org/@mediaarchaeologylab/109677062460615838 (account monitored by all lab staff)
@explodingthephone.bsky.social
The untold story of phone phreaks: the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell.
@lefebvrealex.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Philosophy, The University of Sydney. Latest book, Liberalism as a Way of Life. alexlefebvre.com
@brianros1.bsky.social
Scholar, Editor, Commentator. Lots of politics, lots of sports, & some dog pics too. brianrosenwald.com
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@rachelmcohen.bsky.social
Vox reporter - covering family policy + politics trying to prod productively
@lilygeismer.bsky.social
I research and write about the history of American liberalism and the Democratic Party.
@brentcebul.bsky.social
I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@volumecontrol10.bsky.social
History + Music + Capitalism + Computers @ U Maine. Podcasts @ Money 4 Nothing. Writing Various Places. CFO of the Bangor Handball Association. There's more content on Heaven & Earth, Horatio...
@smettler.bsky.social
Political scientist. Thinking about democracy, rural-urban divide, inequality.
@dygottlieb.bsky.social
Historian of cities and capitalism || Writing YUPPIES: WALL ST AND THE REMAKING OF NY for @harvardpress.bsky.social II Co-host of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@joshuacitarella.bsky.social
Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com
@megan-a-black.bsky.social
Historian of US environmental management and foreign relations. Author of *The Global Interior* (Harvard, 2018). Nebraskan in Massachusetts interested in connections between past & present, human & nonhuman, and middle & coasts & world.
@hotcus.bsky.social
Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - https://hotcus.org.uk/
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@zelizer.bsky.social
Princeton Professor. Also—The Long View, Substack; Foreign Policy; NPR. New York Times Best Selling Author. https://julianzelizer.substack.com/
@jakeanbinder.bsky.social
Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
@katforrester.bsky.social
@daschloz.bsky.social
Political scientist (at Johns Hopkins) and political button collector.
@vanessahistory.bsky.social
History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
@dandrezner.bsky.social
Political science professor, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
@nilsgilman.bsky.social
Historian of the intelligentsia. Adored by little statesmen, philosophers & divines. COO & EVP @ Berggruen Institute + Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
@clementsaustinj.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | Writing a dissertation on the creation of the American far right | ASU West alum