Critical tech starter pack
No fan of the big tech companies but want to have a better understanding of them? Time to find your people!
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@parismarx.com
@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
@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
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨ Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅 SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
@systemcrash.info
A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage. Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
@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 ❤️
@drewharwell.com
Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories Signal: drewharwell.01
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@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
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@kenworthy.bsky.social
Professor, writer, author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Public health, medical anthropology, tech, politics. Good trouble always.
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@merrittk.com
Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com (buy our debut title: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3238510/Fledgling_Manor/)
@zhugeex.com
Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners. I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA. I tweet insights about gaming + more.
@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social
senior lecturer of digital sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University MMU UCU committee I'm a political economist of the internet www.danieljamesjoseph.net
@edenmedina.bsky.social
Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
@eoinhiggins.bsky.social
Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
@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.
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@biancawylie.com
@lorenzofb.bsky.social
Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Tweets about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 Past lives: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED.
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. NYU professor. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@gerritd.bsky.social
Washington Post tech reporter San Francisco Defense tech and AI https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/ Signal: GerritD.27
@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social
Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co I read every email
@ojutel.bsky.social
Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
@lopatto.bsky.social
writer at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/her, but honestly I really don't care what you call me as long as you call me, baby tip me: liz@theverge.com
@seanokane.bsky.social
Senior Transportation Reporter at TechCrunch. Formerly Bloomberg News and The Verge. Obsessed with public records and LLCs. Bad surfer. Reluctant karaoke participant. Send tips 🕵️♂️ Signal: okane.01 sean.okane@techcrunch.com
@rmac.bsky.social
NYT tech reporter Co-author of Character Limit Signal: rmac.18 ryan.mac@nytimes.com rmac18@protonmail.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
@samleecole.bsky.social
tf is going on here do not fight in my replies journalist / co-founder @404media.co signal: sam.404
@kortizart.bsky.social
Karla is a Puerto Rican artist who loves to paint and draw. Karla works on Films (MCU, ILM,HBO), Games, TV, Covers, Fine art, etc. She is also a passionate advocate for better artist industries+ rights. Opinions are her own. ✌️ www.karlaortizart.com
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
editor @ the verge. send pitches and death threats to sarah.jeong@theverge.com
@lizpelly.bsky.social
journalist, critic, nyu adjunct // "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" is out January 7, 2025 (One Signal Publishers) lizpelly.info/book
@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
@willoremus.com
I cover online speech and tech policy for the Washington Post and write the Tech Brief newsletter. Sign up to follow my work: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-will-oremus/ Signal: willoremus.24
@cameronwilson.bsky.social
the only Australian on the internet. www.cameronwilson.com.au i write @thesizzle.com.au and report at @crikey.com.au
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@niedermeyer.online
this gentle soul, cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark, among other things
@kattenbarge.bsky.social
Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media @spitfirenews.com.
@davidgerard.co.uk
discontent creator https://pivot-to-ai.com davidgerard.co.uk rocknerd.co.uk 🐘 https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard books! https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/book/ https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra/ London he/him Слава Україна
@edzitron.com
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Columnist at Business Insider - https://www.businessinsider.com/author/ed-zitron CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
@dell.bsky.social
Sr. writer @wired.com. w/ the @newsguild.org. privacy & national security + DOGE > Send tips via @signal.org ➜ dell.3030
@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
@josephcox.bsky.social
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
@lorak.bsky.social
reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@nbcuni.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@nitasha.bsky.social
technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
@jacobsilverman.com
Please preorder my next book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY Signal: jacobsilverman.99 jacobsilverman@gmail.com www.jacobsilverman.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
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@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
@ali-alkhatib.com
anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral. signal -> @ali.01
@cloudquistador.bsky.social
Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • CovidInformation • Noir • Opinions are mine • Who else’s would they be?! • he/him • https://monroelab.com
@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
@tante.cc
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org (Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
@timmaughan.bsky.social
should be writing a second novel timmaughanbooks.com altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
@lifewinning.com
writer, artist, geographer in crisis. had a beautiful dog for 5 1/2 years. https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. lifewinning.com is past work. wares.lifewinning.com for drawings.
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
@sambiddle.com
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.11 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device) https://sambiddle.com
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@techwontsave.us
A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com. https://techwontsave.us/
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com