Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Covering arts philanthropy at orartswatch.org. Writing books and plays at clairewillettwrites.com. Mentoring lefty grantwriters at tinyurl.com/8thHousePDX. “Notable internet lesbian.”
Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.substack.com
MattSeybold.com
buymeacoffee.com/americanvandalpod
Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Postdoc; AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between.
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Bay Area US. Aging macro expat. Cheap lunch guy. 1st to ever rhyme Duce and Juche. Neoliberal peacenik. Has Herder immunity. The Stakhanov of niche but quality puns. 1/3 each phlegm, spleen & dad humors.
author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. contributing writer at businessweek. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. Contact me: DM, Signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken
My blog in desuetude: https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com
Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender.
https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and online media council rep @wgaeast.bsky.social. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. words also in NYT, LARB, and POW Magazine. he/him. blurry visionary, blue-pill mercenary
Venture Communist
https://public.monster/~dmytri
Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
🕸️🍥 writer / educator 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.eun-song.org 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting 🕸️🍥
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Feature Writer at New York Magazine, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Los Feliz / Iowa City
David Murakami Wood (DMW)
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies
Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa
Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
senior tech editor, the verge
at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
CHANGEOVER, my book about Alcaraz & Sinner, is out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Changeover/Giri-Nathan/9781668076248
giri[at]defector[dot]com
Professor @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Director of @goldperc.bsky.social - occasional contributor to @lrb.co.uk and others.
Subscribe for latest writing etc at Williamdavies.blog
Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
📚 Whore of New York 🖊 at e-flux, Dazed, Le Temps, Interview, Vogue, etc
🕊️ Rep'd by Tuesday Agency, Aevitas, CAA 💌 liara@liararoux.com
🌐 www.liararoux.com
dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
researching EU AI regulation @ duisburg essen university | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | free palestine 🍉
online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
Writer, married, socialist, two cats.
Independent scholar, “public” intellectual, luftmensch.
Thirty years at (successively) Lingua Franca, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed.
Newsy, artsy, bloggy by @andrewwomack.net and Rosecrans Baldwin → themorningnews.org
A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Narrative audio maker with scientific proclivities.
Hear me yammer on NPR and Atlas Obscura. Now making pods about democracy and the resurgence of autocracy
https://www.emilyannevaughn.com/
Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space.
https://chenoehart.com/
Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running
writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more
willtavlin.com
Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a road trip novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com
Making music as APOPHRA https://apophra.bandcamp.com/
Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems.
https://davebonta.com
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
activist. labor. tech. ethics
as seen on The Cut, ArtReview, Dirt, Lux Magazine + more.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michelleiswriting
A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com
Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Maker of zines. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨
🌐 johannesklingebiel.de
Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
helping founders find their truth & share it with the 🌍 → https://meaning.company • past: browser company, snapchat, verge, umich
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Here we go again. History is fractal.
linktree.com/fucktheory
www.patreon.com/fucktheory
social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality.
https://katrin-tiidenberg.com/
Media philosopher, artist, writer
Prof @ King's College London, Digital Humanities
www.joannazylinska.net
AI : nonhuman photography : perception machine : media art : ethics : counter-apocalypse
bedazzlement of consciousness
http://www.gabycf.com
Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
writer who writes, editor who edits
www.elviapw.com
https://elviawilk.substack.com
RIP Social Media. Researcher @ Data & Society, living in Boston | labor, technology, care | tetrapyloctomy | Labor & Tech newsletter: http://bit.ly/2Fv5xfX | https://acmateescu.com/
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
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
Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Writing, thinking, curating: art, technology, people, planet.
Dreaming, making, clowning by way of Singapore, Sydney, San Francisco.
Author of The Body Digital (Melville House, Nov 25).
http://www.vanessa-chang.com
Senior editor, @longreads.com.
Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney // Political economy of media and technology
haunted
writer @compulsiongames.bsky.social, music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social
bijanstephen.blog/about
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imp_Kerr
https://impkerr.com
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
Professor. Writer. Jorts. | www.sarah-blackwood.com
hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
phd student @ tu darmstadt
texts mainly on aesthetics/tech/politics
The spark that will light the fire that will burn the First Order down
lindaduits.nl
https://linktr.ee/lindaduits
Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.
Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Artist
Artist in Residence: School of Arts, Catholic University of Portugal
Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude
University of Porto: i2ADS, FBAUP, FEUP
PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen
Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024
https://rosemary-lee.com
Author of AMERICAN OASIS: FINDING THE FUTURE IN THE CITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST, out January 14, 2025 from Pantheon.
Bylines in Harper's, CJR, The Nation, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc.
KPaoletta@gmail.com
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🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data politics/feminist data/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
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.
Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
