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@saffron.bsky.social
how shall we live together? societal impacts researcher at Anthropic saffronhuang.com
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@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/
@feraldata.bsky.social
Still hanging around at the intersections of tech and culture. Building a new school in oz: https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/
@adamtooze.bsky.social
Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/ OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/ C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought. Economics, history, theory, politi
@wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
independent #Taiwan writer and rights advocate • https://wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com • https://linktr.ee/wordsfromtaiwan • #TaiwanResources
@yaling.bsky.social
Covering Chinese consumers on Following the Yuan & research-focused consultancy ApertureChina; ex-journalist & translator, Cantonese learner 📍London/Shanghai https://www.chineseconsumers.news
@jpak25.bsky.social
China correspondent in Shanghai. Mostly radio at @marketplace.org. Ex-BBC & Telegraph via Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Calgary, Grande Prairie. Views are my own.
@hughdavies.bsky.social
Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher President of Chinese Digital Games Research Association https://www.hughdavies.au/
@hvistendahl.bsky.social
Investigative reporter with The New York Times. I do books too (UNNATURAL SELECTION, THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY). Send tips to mara.hvistendahl@nytimes.com or DM for Signal.
@jennywustenberg.bsky.social
Professor of History & Memory Studies @ Nottingham Trent University - https://jennywustenberg.com/
@samanthaculp.bsky.social
Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
@sarahorcas.bsky.social
(Sworn) Translator (ella/she). Translation teacher at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. PhD student; diss. on translation teacher's competence in Spain. yogini sarahorcas@gmail.com
@theasiacable.bsky.social
Your source for Asian Politics, Economics and Security Connect with us at: linktr.ee/theasiacable
@theindexmedia.bsky.social
Truth in an age of noise. Created by @joanwestenberg.com https://theindex.media/
@sebschmoller.bsky.social
Wrote/ran TUC courses for union reps. Ran Sheffield College's educational IT. Led ALT. Did techish consultancy. Still involved in Further/Adult Ed governance. Doing a maths degree. Walking a Border Collie. Politics, FE/AE, outdoors, cycling, Sheffield.
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@evidentmedia.org
Evident is a nonprofit news organization that produces documentary journalism for the public good | evidentmedia.org Subscribe: http://evidentmedia.live/youtube
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News & Boston Herald.) NYC and North Fork. Francophile fan of Sondheim and Venice. Aspiring watercolorist. (Paintings now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) Hoping sarcasm works out better over here.
@rebeccawilliams.info
writer/lawyer/artist whose work investigates how data & technology affect power; she/her Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com; https://linksofrebecca.glitch.me/, rebecca.411 @Signal.org
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@sofia.nucleo.jor.br
Tech reporter and researcher. At @nucleo.jor.br and SaferNet Brasil. 24-25 AI Accountability Fellow do Pulitzer Center. sofiaschurig.com nucleo.jor.br/apoie
@mackenziej.bsky.social
Researcher, Alan Turing Institute PhD in Computer Science, King’s College London Research: ML fairness, AI ethics, uncertainty, discrimination law, AI policy Prev: Algorithm Audit, UK DSIT, HURIDOCS, Villanova University she/her https://mjorgen1.github.io
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
Sociologist studying families, schools, privilege, power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, Atlantic. Author of HOLDING IT TOGETHER | QUALITATIVE LITERACY | FIELD GUIDE TO GRAD SCHOOL "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women" www.jessicacalarco.com
@popovaprof.bsky.social
Polisci prof at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️ Democracy, rule of law, (anti)corruption in Eastern Europe 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺; post-Communism; Russo-Ukrainian war and its impact on European democracies; #UkraineIsEurope #DefendDemocracy https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@bvlsingler.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
@sveawindwehr.bsky.social
Fundamental rights, platform governance and EU policy @EFF.org. Co-Chair @D-64.org. Member of the board of the German DSC. Views all hers.
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Author of #PrivacyIsPower (An Economist Book of the Year). Keynote Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
@vintageobscura.net
Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net All tracks are: - More than 25 years old - Have fewer than 30,000 views on YouTube - Curated by community reddit.com/r/vintageobscura
@ultrakillblast.bsky.social
MONSTERS FROM THE ID! Cult Film, Animation, Comics & Art linktr.ee/ultrakillblast
@picardonhealth.bsky.social
André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. I share stories and opinion pieces from a broad range of publications. Shares are not endorsements.
@susieprotschky.bsky.social
Professor of Global Political History Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏 Photography | Visual Culture War | Gender | Environment www.susieprotschky.com https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
@piercesmith.bsky.social
Information Architecture | Content Design | Libraries | Wannabe friend to the trees
@volts.wtf
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@deadprogram.com
Technologist for hire, open source developer, businessperson, author, speaker, iconoclast. TinyGo - https://tinygo.org Gobot - https://gobot.io GoCV - https://gocv.io The Hybrid Group - https://hybridgroup.com Blog - https://deadprogrammersociety.com
@coachtony.bsky.social
Posting Medium links that will make you think and TikTok links that won't. CEO of Medium.com.
@konsectatrix.bsky.social
I'm here for art, writing, music, and magic. Transforming trash into temples and raising gardens from ruins. Black - AuDHD - She/they - Queer - ↑♏︎☉♏︎☾♉︎
@thesharkqueen.com
LOUDLY CANADIAN IN THE USA she/her/Liz Creator of My Boyfriend is a Shark mbfias.com https://kck.st/4iIBLl8 📚 horror & smut & comics (Sometimes all 3) 🎙️ will talk dirty for food 💸 https://linktr.ee/seransdell
@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.
@thejenna.bsky.social
Master's Degree in Media and Culture, Video essays and livestreaming business inquiries: jenna.stoeber (at) gmail (dot) com Links at: linktr.ee/thejenna pronounced stee-bur, she/her FIX YOUR HEART OR DIE