Geeks Who Critique
My most popular twitter list, recreated as best I can. People who love tech, know that cyberpunk is a warning not a manual, & don't buy the valley BS wholsale. Practitioners, academics, journalists, mouther-offers.
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@cydharrell.bsky.social
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@evacide.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once
@robin.berjon.com
Putting human agency back into technology. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • blog: https://berjon.com/ • fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs • he/him/Ishmael • Signal robin.77
@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
@grimalkina.bsky.social
Psychologist for Software Teams (& writing a book about it). Founder: Developer Success Lab, Catharsis Consulting. VP of Research. Defender of the mismeasured. https://www.drcathicks.com/ Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@scottbot.bsky.social
[Seeking a job!] before: circus performer; historian of science; data scientist; librarian. now: dad. also DOGE-fired chief data officer and director of data & evaluation at a federal humanities funding organization. https://scottbot.github.io
@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
@anildash.com
that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • see https://anildash.com
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@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.
@emax.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC. lover of robot music 🤖⚡️ https://hip.cat/emax https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
@estherschindler.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Chocoholic. Baseball. Cats. Technology. Not always in that order. She/her. Let's be kind to one another. Gaze upon my LinkedIn profile and admire: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherschindler/
@ekp.bsky.social
CEO of Project Include early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer ellenkpao.com
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
Book out March 2025, The Pacific Circuit KQED Forum Oakland Garden Club
@komorama.bsky.social
Generalist fascinated by complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of Common Tools. https://komoroske.com
@jadedid.bsky.social
knitting thoughts and yarn together. scholar on the limits of empathy. academic libraries. ed/tech & student wellness. the other side of empathy (Duke, 2023) 30% off with code E23DAVIS https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-other-side-of-empathy
@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
@smi.bsky.social
not the one. i am a journalist and i work for Bloomberg News. Obligatory disclaimers about opinions. No DMs for reporting tips. Signal at @s_m_i.99 don’t expect posts to stick around.
@ali-alkhatib.com
anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral. signal -> @ali.01
@malahern.bsky.social
Collector of errors, glitches, and misprints. Researching 🤖 🎨 🏭 🎞️ 📽️ 📰 📺 and more. Professing at UW (Seattle)
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Deputy Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
@daniloc.xyz
I help make software for people who make software. https://daniloc.xyz
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@beccalew.bsky.social
Postdoctoral scholar @ Stanford. I research the history of the right in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at beccalewis@protonmail.com. She/her
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@mekka.mekka-tech.com
Building Digital Ecosystems at Google. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke He/him.
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Precarity • Race General Counsel AAUP Sam's sister ❤️
@rcalo.bsky.social
I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a book coming out next year about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@mattblaze.org
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. So-called expert on election security and a few other things. Slow photographer. RF nerd. Occasionally blogs at https://mattblaze.org/blog
@salome.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data
@jmalazita.bsky.social
Associate Prof of STS and Game Studies at RPI. Author of "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine"
@biella.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
@davidnemer.com
Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Havard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸 https://linktr.ee/davidnemer
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@dmulvin.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the LSE. Histories of media and technology. dylanmulvin.com
@roseveleth.com
👽 butch Frizzle 👽 〰 journalist 〰 sculptor 〰 they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/ → → → TESTED is out now https://www.tested-podcast.com/
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@sunhahong.bsky.social
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
@3r1ng.bsky.social
Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @natematias@social.coop natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@liquidcity.bsky.social
Designer and Director (HYPER-REALITY, ‘Agents’) Founder of Liquid City, Webby award winning AI / XR design and prototyping studio https://liquid.city
@fernandar0sa.bsky.social
@sailorhg.com
putting the ✿soft✿ in software engineer 🇮🇩🇺🇸 ✿ shop.bubblesort.io ✿ sailorhg.com
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@danielleleong.com
VP of Eng, photographer, ex @github @twilio trust & safety @consentsoftware @feerlessapp. She/her. Opinions my own 💛
@daniellecitron.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
@danielle.bsky.social
interactive performances & pixel art. i also build a virtual tarot platform moonlight.world 🐍🌛 daniellebaskin.com
@karlaliliana.bsky.social
Part chaplain, part cross-pollinator, part coach, part builder. Multiracial multicultural institution dreamer. Brava pero vulnerable. www.bravaleaders.com
@daphnek.bsky.social
Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Stanford CPC. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues. I've done this stuff for a long time and am getting kind of cranky about it.
@charity.wtf
cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
@jengolbeck.bsky.social
Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD On the dystopia beat- AI, social media,extremism, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet she/her
@vaishnavi.bsky.social
running www.vyanams.com to build safer online products for children and teens. occasionally use this account like 2008 emo twitter
@wells.bsky.social
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. catch me staffing at anime cons! pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@xriskology.bsky.social
Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@quinnae.com
Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
@jsrailton.bsky.social
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
@chengela.bsky.social
Reporter/editor, currently at Vox, and author of Ace. Interested in policy, philosophy, and science. I one-box in Newcomb’s paradox. angelachen.org
@evangreer.bsky.social
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. Last album "Spotify is Surveillance" out now on Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records. she/her/they/them
@frederike.bsky.social
Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor✨ Also: EU Ai industrial policy & global governance for @ainowinstitute.bsky.social frederikekaltheuner.com
@joolia.bsky.social
senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@suryamattu.com
Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com Previously: @princetoncitp.bsky.social @umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow @themarkup.org @propublica.org
@shriram.bsky.social
Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.
@nandoodles.checkmyads.org
Now: Co-founder @CheckMyAdsHQ, Your Friendly Neighborhood Watchdog / Previously: Co-Founder @slpng_giants
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@wchr.bsky.social
Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work. wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
@math-rachel.bsky.social
AI researcher going back to school for immunology fast.ai co-founder, math PhD, data scientist Writing: https://rachel.fast.ai/
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
Stats PhD student @Harvard • My posts are a cool, refreshing breeze of nerdy content crafted for a broad audience. Follow me to enter the nerd space safe.
@blackamazon.bsky.social
Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness - Far Rock’s finest - expert of miscellany -master of “SON!?” - writer - Senior Fellow - Oracle at Dead ass
@tiffanycli.bsky.social
Tech, Privacy, & AI Law Professor 🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli 🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li 🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli TiffanyLi.com if you insist
@adiod.bsky.social
Research fellow @DAIR | Co-lead: https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense. Creative writer| I drink whisky, and I know things
@federicobianchi.bsky.social
Sociologist | solidarity, inter-group relationships, (some) sociology of science | social network analysis & agent-based modelling | BehaveLab @ University of Milan | assoc managing editor @sociologica.bsky.social | https://federico-bianchi.github.io
@molly.wiki
independent writer of citationneeded.news and @web3isgoinggreat.com • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree
@mollymckew.bsky.social
Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
Anthro PhD Candidate. nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threats, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc. gonzo journo QUEER RT/Fave/etc ≠agree he/him http://patreon.com/nuclearanthro http://paypal.me/nuclearanthro https://osf.io/46sfd/
@janelleshane.com
I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com Also a research scientist in optics. She/her. Colorado, USA
@cyborgapologist.bsky.social
Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
@alexahagerty.bsky.social
Meditative anthropologist, author of Still Life With Bones, a New York Book Review Editors' choice, named one of the Best Books 2023 by The New Yorker, BookPage, and FT readers. Researching & writing on human rights, tech, resistance, and otherwise futures