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loves art, history, novels, hiking, and everything about getting everyone the resources and systems we need to thrive.

Political analyst focused on global conflict and security, Afghanistan, the Middle East and US politics. Purveyor of quality nonsense. Rare Afghan with two names.

Former Sailor, past Mobile DJ, bragging up Nova Scotia, and sharing amazing places. Extremely varied interests (except Sports), no hard-line Politics, just part of daily conversation. https://linktr.ee/rastasack

Critical AI's first issue out: https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue/1/1-2! Follow us here or @mastodon.social or on X @criticalai.

To learn more, see our website: https://criticalai.org/

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Situationist Cybernetics, Art-as-Research, Creative Misuse, Small Acts of Technological Resistance, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Teaching Responsible AI at Elisava Barcelona (but live in Rochester NY). cyberneticforests.com

civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them

Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc

me: https://about.danhon.com
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

I’m here now. Listen to my podcast https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter

No longer in good standing with the New York State bar

Researcher @ Microsoft Research | PhD @ UCL | Information Access + Deep Learning + AI & Society| Pronouns: He/him ✊🏽🇵🇸

Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)

From Eastern KY.

im gita
they/them

cofounder of aftermath.site
[email protected]

🌎 😷 🏳️‍🌈

Critical media scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Focused on the environment.

🎙️Podcast: The Data Fix

www.thedatafix.net

Data journalist for hire. Writing about algorithms, education, and civil rights.

Researcher of consumption, markets, & internet. Not a thought leader. Killjoy. Post-Ottoman subject. Feels alterity sickness everywhere.

She/her/cis EN/FR/TR/ND

Background: still from Killer of Sheep
Profile: a woman wearing a respirator mask

Learning Sciences PhD Candidate at Northwestern University - Critical Digital Pedagogies and Literacies - Dad Life - he/him/his

Disabled, queer, Jewish, (chimerical?) cyborg, professor of space stuff, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches and too many pens. Building joy with a side of chaos. Team Lightning Thunder Unicorn.

Scholar, author, policy advisor
http://www.alondranelson.com

Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.

video editor, Marlin on Oddity Roadshow, host of Fight Together on the One Piece Podcast. also the parasocial hell person. based in ATL

head of marketing at tumblr. personal account obvi, opinions are my own etc. we both just lost The Game. 🌱 (she/her)

Content Moderation Researcher at Meedan, Producer for hbomberguy
Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch

Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-25) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.

Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Former Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Canadian.

Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know. Married to @operaqueenie.

Check your vernacular & then I’ll get back to ya. Essayist poet philosopher & writer of the 2022 debut novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS. She/her
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676226/none-but-the-righteous-by-chantal-james/

Writer. Poet. Translator. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. aspec 🏳️‍🌈. Once fought the British Museum. linktr.ee/yilinw

Your queer sci-fi, pro wrestling, and horror movie princess in Seattle. fae/faer

Retired Educator / Learning Scientist
Solo Game Developer
Pixel Artist
Worked on a bunch of JRPGs back in the day
Male presenting NB
Pronouns: Nobody/Nothing/None - any if you must
Avatar alt: Pixel art portrait of a Black person with glasses and pink hair

Sr. writer @ WIRED in Texas. Natsec & privacy.
> Signal: dell.3030

I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics.

Preservation, erotic art, old tech.

18+ only

(she / they)
Writing: antientro.pics
Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten

Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x3.

writer, skeeter

https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac

Star Trek podcasts by embarrassed nerds.

Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Doing HCI, UX and speech interface research. Scottish. Metalhead. A very stable genius. Capricorn. Wanton sex goddess. he/him ☕ 🥃🍷

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

Star Trek podcast host @GreatestTrek, fart joke enjoyer, newly minted embarrassing dad. Benjaminahr.mobi

Writing about belonging & diaspora in NYT, Longreads, Catapult, The Offing. Memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (March 2024) is available now!

Director of Research, DAIR Institute. Roller derby athlete/announcer, BayAreaDerby. 🇪🇬⚧ She/her/هي
📸 Ryan Young (http://instagram.com/ryaneyoung/)

👨‍💼fine time tracking software at nokotime.com
📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us)
🔭#astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space
🕹️#retrocomputing
🐈#cats
BLM. Ally. He/him.

Future somebody | Data, Tech, Law, Power | Wake up, oh sleeper...

🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to [email protected]

Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology & people done wrong by AI. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of the new book YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)

Principal software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.

Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.

You know... the weird one.

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 of AoIR, fan of many things, gay lady.

“This heaven gives me migraine.”