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Tamara Kneese

@tamigraph.bsky.social
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Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond yalebooks.yale.edu/book/97803002482… www.tamarakneese.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026
The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Muse just tried to summarize the “main takeaways” of a photo of my baby
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Extremely sick of this shit
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So excited for this timely event on community responses to data centers in Pennsylvania! Congrats to Cella and the other organizers on pulling so many stakeholders and threads together
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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214
This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My dad wouldn’t let us play with Ouija boards when we were kids not because he necessarily believed they conjured evil spirits but because of the psychological effects of thinking you were conjuring them. Anyway that’s how I feel about AI panic, only if Oujia boards were run by a eugenicist sex cult
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Protect African Studies @ Edinburgh docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Protect African Studies @ Edinburgh
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James A. Hodges @jameshodges.net · 15/09/2026
A “computer glitch” at this data center dumped 5,500 gallons of diesel into local waterways. The company responsible is 11% owned by BlackRock btw newjersey.news12.com/2026/09/14/d...
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Secaucus mayor says 'computer glitch' cause of thousands of gallons of diesel to spill from Secaucus data center
The fuel entered Anderson Creek, which flows into the Hackensack River.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is anyone writing (in a critical/compellimg way) about frontier lab AI slowdown calls amid the broader data center pause/moratorium push in San Francisco/the larger Bay Area?
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Def need to grab a copy of @adriandaub.bsky.social’s latest
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The Billboards of Silicon Valley | Adrian Daub
YOUR AI AGENT NEEDS A WORKFLOW ENGINE. The billboard stands by a nondescript stretch of highway somewhere between Redwood City and Mountain View. A boom, likely a bubble, made manifest. A cry of trium...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When a SLAC, in a bit of a Hail Mary, tries to cash in on AI it goes something like this
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
AI enabled deliberative democracy but it’s just a Habermasian ghost bot
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Oh. My. God. The book galleys have arrived. And they are GLORIOUS.
My book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
am still looking for someone to come chat with me on The Data Fix about these so called rogue ai! ping me!
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Book idea: what’s the aftermath of disillusionment in tech?
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.
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The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
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jen liu @uilnej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In re: to recent news about the Meta data center, Sheila Tahir and I are sharing our zine, "Ghosts in the Cloud: A Southern Gothic Approach to Studying AI Infrastructure" based on a trip to the hypderscaler construction site in spring 2026.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“The universe, Musk said, according to the Economist, could be a computer simulation created by aliens. ‘The things I’m doing are so preposterous that it’s hard to believe they’re real,’ he said.”
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Elon Musk says he got ‘carried away’ with Trump – but still holds on to contentious political views
In interview, billionaire says instead of running ‘Doge’ he should’ve ‘worked on my companies’ and shares extreme predictions
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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Anyone want to adopt an adorable, energetic Australian cattle dog? Sadly, my neighbor, who has ongoing serious health issues, has to give up her lovely 3-year-old doggo. Perfect dog for a family who can give her the love she needs. Location: Long Beach / 90808.
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🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My brilliant colleague Iván Chaar López 's tenure denial is not only a threat to UT faculty, but to all scholars who research topics considered "controversial." His case is a model for how to deny tenure with zero justifications to him or his colleagues. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Has anyone else received weirdly specific but clearly AI generated and sketchy emails from “recruiters”? Like the book club scam emails but more LinkedIn in shape
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Maine Public Radio's coverage of the killing by ICE this morning. It sounds like ICE is once again claiming that the victim tried to run them over, so just as a reminder, every time they've claimed this, it's been a lie. www.mainepublic.org/maine/2026-0...
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Developing: 26-year-old Colombian man dead in ICE shooting in Biddeford
Federal, state and local law enforcement had closed off the scene of the shooting, which occurred before 8 a.m. Monday. Details were still emerging but state officials said an unidentified man was sho...
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LAL @lindli.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Based on 10 months of fieldwork, Hannah Lipstein shares five takeaways from "Greening AI in the public sector," a new procurement handbook for agencies weighing AI's environmental impacts.
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Governments Can Advance 'Greener AI' Through the Power of Procurement
People have the power to leverage the civic and public sectors to fight corporate interests and demand a sustainable future, writes Hannah Lipstein.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/07/2026
HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
Hyperscale by Paris Marx. Coming October 20, 2026.

An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Very strange to me that one could critique critiques of Big Tech’s dominance by claiming that data center energy use isn’t real/isn’t a problem outside of the US. The ideological scaffolding and speculative investments behind “AI” are all too material and also global in their ambitions
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: The AI boom didn’t happen spontaneously. It’s the result of a corporate takeover of state capacity, setting the stage for Big Tech to make a killing while inflicting deep, lasting pain on the working class. @zeteo.com covers our latest research 🧵
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’ve been doing my best to ignore what must be a substantial clothing moth infestation in my closet but the evidence keeps finding me anyway
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 30/06/2026
(i'm never allowed to buy a tshirt again as long as i live but) loving this "death cycle of AI" tshirt from Honor the Earth. Proceeds go to their activities countering data centers and extractive energy projects. Happy 4th. www.honorearth.org/shop/p/speci...
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Special Edition: Land Back 2026 & The Death Cycle of AI (Adult) — Honor The Earth
Special edition T-shirt for Land Back Day, July 4 2026.  The United States is not and has never been a democracy. On July 4, we don't celebrate the violent history of genocide, extraction,...
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xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Divination Engines
A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...
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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
WEDNESDAY: Check out the TechEquity Data Work Landscape Team as they share a demo of the site and talk to the @labortechresearchnetwork.org about the research process, along with trends and insights in the AI data work field. @tnewmsblues.bsky.social
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“Your next user isn’t human.” Welcome back to San Francisco!
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Oops forgot to add the hashtag bc my conference posting skills are rusty #FAccT2026 Targeting systems are intentionally imprecise and unexplainable, this is not a sign of technological failure but of systems working exactly as they are meant to
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Lucy Suchman’s keynote at @facct.bsky.social is a revelation. She’s citing media studies scholars like Orit Halpern and Lisa Gitelman while laying out in exacting terms how AI systems are used to perpetuate and legitimize genocide
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
You can reserve your seat for Thomas Mullaney's discussion of HOW WE DISAPPEAR w/ @tamigraph.bsky.social (Tamara Kneese) at Local Economy on July 9th here. It promises to be very good. luma.com/o8ar0rxe
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How We Disappear: Information in Life and in Death · Luma
When Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney “lost” both his parents, he began thinking of how information—all the stuff that makes us, that we make, and that we…
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Wait FAccT perfectly overlaps with the Montreal jazz festival?? We should be doing that my dudes
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Lauren E Bridges @laurenebridges.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎁FREE ACCESS to my new pub "The Environmental Impacts of AI" in the new Oxford Research Encyclopedia of STS. Beyond the hype, AI is an extractive force reliant on minerals, water, & energy. This entry introduces a 4-Scope framework to map AI's full lifecycle impacts. doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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Environmental Impacts of AI
Summary. The global proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is accompanied by significant debate regarding its net environmental consequences. AI is
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The entire book is free to read online, as a downloadable pdf, or you can order a hard copy!!
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
MAZEL TOV @bradlander.bsky.social, THE FIRST JFREJ MEMBER TO BE ELECTED TO CONGRESS!
Graphic celebrating Brad Lander's primary win.
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