Tamara Kneese
@tamigraph.bsky.social
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
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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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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⚠️ How are workers led movements against AI shaping climate action in the tech industry? Join us for a book presentation on worker led movements by Tamara Kneese (Data & Society) with Sana Ahmad (Weizenbaum-Institute). Register now: buff.ly/SnAZkHi @tamigraoh.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
⚠️ How are workers led movements against AI shaping climate action in the tech industry? Join us for a book presentation on worker led movements by Tamara Kneese (Data & Society) with Sana Ahmad (Weizenbaum-Institute). Register now: buff.ly/SnAZkHi @tamigraoh.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social
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So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.
forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
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we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
This town has officially decided to fight against the construction of an AI data center that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
Amber Fellows, a Ypsilanti Township councilmember, tells us why:
Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/a-small-town...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
I’ll be in conversation with Sana Ahmad next Monday, November 17 at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social about our new @commonnotions.bsky.social book on digital workers’ inquiry and my forthcoming @datasociety.bsky.social report on climate action in and against the tech industry
Worker Led Movements Against AI: A Discussion with Tamara Kneese
Mon, Nov. 17, 2025
tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I’ll be in conversation with Sana Ahmad next Monday, November 17 at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social about our new @commonnotions.bsky.social book on digital workers’ inquiry and my forthcoming @datasociety.bsky.social report on climate action in and against the tech industry
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
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Did you know I wrote a book?! Advanced copies are out and blurbs are in— coming your way Feb 10, 2026. And of course the very best thing to do is preorder your hardcover copy or audiobook! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Did you know I wrote a book?! Advanced copies are out and blurbs are in— coming your way Feb 10, 2026. And of course the very best thing to do is preorder your hardcover copy or audiobook! www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...
Libbing out officially over
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Libbing out officially over
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
You know what time it is: Family record party time
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
You know what time it is: Family record party time
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It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people.
I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table.
apnews.com/article/snap...
I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table.
apnews.com/article/snap...
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people.
I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table.
apnews.com/article/snap...
I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table.
apnews.com/article/snap...
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BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.
Absurd.
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Absurd.
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To understand the complex impacts of data centers, we need to look at the relationship between social and algorithmic harms, and "and other forms of embodied harms that communities are dealing with," D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social tells @yamachiodi.bsky.social. www.blogs.unicamp.br/geict/2025/1...
Down the Rabbit Hole of AI: Data Centers and the Material Impacts of the ‘Cloud’ – An interview with Tamara Kneese
www.blogs.unicamp.br
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
To understand the complex impacts of data centers, we need to look at the relationship between social and algorithmic harms, and "and other forms of embodied harms that communities are dealing with," D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social tells @yamachiodi.bsky.social. www.blogs.unicamp.br/geict/2025/1...
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
Some of you have heard me talk about my speculative project on Yiddish ghosts and my convoluted family history. Here is a tiny morsel, thanks to @stacyewood.bsky.social, Jerry C. Zee, and the good folks at @limnpress.bsky.social
Data and the Dybbuk - Limn
The chatbot confidently misreads the history of the Yiddish theater
limn.press
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Some of you have heard me talk about my speculative project on Yiddish ghosts and my convoluted family history. Here is a tiny morsel, thanks to @stacyewood.bsky.social, Jerry C. Zee, and the good folks at @limnpress.bsky.social
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Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski
Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE
www.gofundme.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮
asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
Séance and Technology Studies - ASAP/Review
My friends who visit San Francisco always comment on how different our advertising is. Step off the plane at SFO and you’re immediately surrounded by billboards promising AI solutions. They say it fee...
asapjournal.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮
asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
Help me plz
Does anyone have a trade book proposal they’d be willing to share with me? I want to make sure mine isn’t looking too bizarre
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Help me plz
The people have spoken, motherfuckers
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The people have spoken, motherfuckers
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
Bruuuuuce
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor and only the second woman to serve in the office. The race was closely watched as a barometer of the national mood 10 months into Trump’s second term. https://bit.ly/4i2tSIV
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Bruuuuuce
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Does anyone have a trade book proposal they’d be willing to share with me? I want to make sure mine isn’t looking too bizarre
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Does anyone have a trade book proposal they’d be willing to share with me? I want to make sure mine isn’t looking too bizarre
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
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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