Tamara Kneese
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
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Tamara Kneese
@tamigraph.bsky.social
· Nov 4
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
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Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
The Real Race for an AI Moratorium: Stopping Data Centers | TechPolicy.Press
Cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data center development, writes Jenna Ruddock.
www.techpolicy.press
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
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What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."
DataCenter : DataCenter
datacenterdatacenter.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."
Sorry chiweenie, our PG&E bill is apparently over $300 this month because of the cold snap, so we are turning off the heat and you’re going in your jingle balls dog sweater
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sorry chiweenie, our PG&E bill is apparently over $300 this month because of the cold snap, so we are turning off the heat and you’re going in your jingle balls dog sweater
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some notes on "regenerative data cultures" and "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨
jonathangray.org/2025/12/16/s...
with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜
jonathangray.org/2025/12/16/s...
with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜
notes on regenerative data cultures and “Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory” at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Some notes on the “Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory” symposium at Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
jonathangray.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
some notes on "regenerative data cultures" and "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨
jonathangray.org/2025/12/16/s...
with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜
jonathangray.org/2025/12/16/s...
with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜
I held off on telling people in my new workplace that I don’t have Spotify and that we mostly listen to records or the radio in my house
December 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I held off on telling people in my new workplace that I don’t have Spotify and that we mostly listen to records or the radio in my house
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Some lovely words from Nick Dyer-Witheford for Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry, co-authored w/ Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social, & published by @commonnotions.bsky.social.
Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)
Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)
December 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Some lovely words from Nick Dyer-Witheford for Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry, co-authored w/ Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social, & published by @commonnotions.bsky.social.
Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)
Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)
Not sure people other than VC brained cylons will go for this www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not sure people other than VC brained cylons will go for this www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Vital reading, which includes quotes from Holly and Will Alpine of the Enabled Emissions Campaign, whose work exposing green-AI-washing at Microsoft was supported by our talented team at @psst-org.bsky.social.
This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Vital reading, which includes quotes from Holly and Will Alpine of the Enabled Emissions Campaign, whose work exposing green-AI-washing at Microsoft was supported by our talented team at @psst-org.bsky.social.
Reposted by Tamara Kneese
The fight is not over, but this is a bad development for the health and safety of Oakland - and especially West Oakland. Capital does not value human life.
share.google/n7qCOCIwEXwx...
share.google/n7qCOCIwEXwx...
A controversial Oakland port development moves forward after city loses ‘coal war’
“At this point, it’s just another development project,” Oakland’s top administrator said. “The city has exercised all its legal options.”
share.google
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The fight is not over, but this is a bad development for the health and safety of Oakland - and especially West Oakland. Capital does not value human life.
share.google/n7qCOCIwEXwx...
share.google/n7qCOCIwEXwx...
Increasingly wondering what will be left (aside from like Palantir) when the regime finally crumbles gothamist.com/news/the-new...
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Increasingly wondering what will be left (aside from like Palantir) when the regime finally crumbles gothamist.com/news/the-new...
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I attended an awesome Media Justice webinar this evening with panelists who are on the ground organizing the refusal against data centers in their communities in the U.S. Southwest. I like to think I'm pretty up to date on data center stories, but here are three things I learned:
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I attended an awesome Media Justice webinar this evening with panelists who are on the ground organizing the refusal against data centers in their communities in the U.S. Southwest. I like to think I'm pretty up to date on data center stories, but here are three things I learned:
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I’m at the San Francisco Public Library tomorrow for a conversation about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence with @tamigraph.bsky.social n Iris Stewart-Frey sfpl.org/events/2025/... Feel free to DM or drop question ideas here 🙋🏾♂️💥🚀
Panel: AI and the Environment—Shaping a Sustainable Future | San Francisco Public Library
Explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and environmental stewardship in this panel discussion focused on creating a more sustainable future. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into cli...
sfpl.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m at the San Francisco Public Library tomorrow for a conversation about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence with @tamigraph.bsky.social n Iris Stewart-Frey sfpl.org/events/2025/... Feel free to DM or drop question ideas here 🙋🏾♂️💥🚀
Thought I looked pretty cute after I put on a jaunty scarf but my child asked me why I was wearing a bib
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Thought I looked pretty cute after I put on a jaunty scarf but my child asked me why I was wearing a bib
This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...
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Tomorrow at 1pm ET: Join us online as @tamigraph.bsky.social discusses the findings of her report with Eliza Pan of @amzn4climate.bsky.social and @khari.bsky.social! 3/3 datasociety.net/events/clima...
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Tomorrow at 1pm ET: Join us online as @tamigraph.bsky.social discusses the findings of her report with Eliza Pan of @amzn4climate.bsky.social and @khari.bsky.social! 3/3 datasociety.net/events/clima...
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🚨 New today! In "Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech," @tamigraph.bsky.social examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions have attempted to reform the industry. 1/3 datasociety.net/library/turn...
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🚨 New today! In "Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech," @tamigraph.bsky.social examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions have attempted to reform the industry. 1/3 datasociety.net/library/turn...
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because i could not clank for death —
he kindly clanked for me —
he kindly clanked for me —
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
because i could not clank for death —
he kindly clanked for me —
he kindly clanked for me —
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In this episode I speak with friends-neighbours-advocates Meg Rintoul and Kathryn Barnwell about current plans in place to build an AI data center in Nanaimo, B-C. -- and allowing ourselves to write a new story about the future.
pca.st/episode/3c50...
pca.st/episode/3c50...
Advocates, with Meg Rintoul and Kathryn Barnwell
pca.st
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In this episode I speak with friends-neighbours-advocates Meg Rintoul and Kathryn Barnwell about current plans in place to build an AI data center in Nanaimo, B-C. -- and allowing ourselves to write a new story about the future.
pca.st/episode/3c50...
pca.st/episode/3c50...
I’m going to retire early in spirit if not in practice. Retiring early in spirit doesn’t require a 401k or any savings, it’s all about vibes
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I’m going to retire early in spirit if not in practice. Retiring early in spirit doesn’t require a 401k or any savings, it’s all about vibes
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BREAKING: U.S. vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth.
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
BREAKING: U.S. vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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In a new Points piece, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and the Kapor Foundation’s Cecilia Marrinan consider how California’s longstanding ties to the tech industry — and a history of environmental harm — connect to the threats the industry poses to the state today. datasociety.net/points/beyon...
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In a new Points piece, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and the Kapor Foundation’s Cecilia Marrinan consider how California’s longstanding ties to the tech industry — and a history of environmental harm — connect to the threats the industry poses to the state today. datasociety.net/points/beyon...
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥