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Tamara Kneese

@tamigraph.bsky.social

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Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland and at @datasociety.bsky.social. Luddite 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

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · Apr 21

At the top of Earth Week, we are launching this series of essays for @datasociety.bsky.social Points, The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction with contributions from @xrw.bsky.social, @zgtcooper.bsky.social, Jen Liu, and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, with an intro by me

The Cloud is Dead

In this series, we explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between technology production and deployment, and how tech impacts people and the environment.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22h

Is AI actually a sound social investment? Or a net drain of value? Come to Edinburgh and help us @braiduk.bsky.social develop a more holistic and rigorous methodology for measuring AI’s real worth!

Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 1d

New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22h

Stovetop popcorn with nutrional yeast + Coco laptop screening is the ideal combo on this rainy October day

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 1d

I wrote about Benioff’s call to send the National Guard to San Francisco and what it means for those of us whose careers are entangled in Salesforce. Hoping it’s also got something for others who are facing a tension between power in their industry / their own values. rachelhands.com/2025/10/13/w...

what we can do, today

Every so often I’m presented with a reason to rethink what I’m doing for a living. Over the past few years that’s generally come in the form of layoffs, or the big global crises that make one want …

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at Altman’s actions over the years instead of listening to his moon jobs/AI will solve climate change bullshit, it’s clear that AI, technofascism, and the fossil fuel industry are inextricably linked. No tech execs actually think AI is gonna help them reach net zero and they don’t care

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist

The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.

www.desmog.com

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel says the Antichrist is a Luddite btw www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Screenshot from WashingtonPost: “in the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil science,” Thiel said in his September 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI”

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, late to this bc I stepped away from the doom machine for a couple hours

Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 4d

The audacity of accusing James of bank fraud (obviously with zero proof because they are one trick pony racists) when these are the biggest grifters on the planet

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know if I have ever needed a three day weekend quite like I need this one

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 6d

Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance

10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

California Data Centers in Context: Histories, Impacts, Policies with Khari Johnson, Masheika Allgood, and Nicole Merino Tsui. Moderated by Cecilia Marrinan and Tamara Kneese. October 9, 12-1:30 pm. Registration link for Zoom is in the post

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 6d

Cecilia Marrinan from Kapor Foundation and I will moderate the conversation with @khari.bsky.social (CalMatters), Masheika Allgood (AllAI), and Nicole Merino Tsui (West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project). Should be a great conversation about California specific issues

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 7d

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks. One of my current research projects focuses on Data Center Alley!

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 7d

Probably worth paying more attention to *why* tech oligarchs and this administration, in particular, are so eager to build data centers. What do we think they’re going to be used for? Endless AI for good projects or…?

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