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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

SF’s dystopian billboards (also tracked and theorized so brilliantly bt @dellsystem.bsky.social ) are meant to appeal to the extractivist billionaire CEO class, not even your average small potatoes VC or AI startup techbro. And extracting from you and the planet is in fact the entire appeal

Just as Fox News sometimes runs segments with exactly one viewer in mind (President Donald Trump), these billboards have a target audience in the low double digits. It’s unlikely there are billboards for these companies anywhere else in the world, but these companies nevertheless claim world domination. They can justify their valuations only by promising to destroy not just your job, but your entire line of work; by strip-mining your posts, comments, photos. And they can scale only by building a gigantic data center near you, sucking up your water and polluting your

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Pretty good summary of why people are so pissed off about data centers, the physical representations of the technology companies keep saying is going to take everyone’s jobs away

But when Saline residents finally had their chance to speak, a volley of pointed questions followed. They asked about the emissions from the fossil fuels that would be used to generate power for the data center; the bright lights from the construction site shining into children’s bedrooms late at night and before dawn; and local roads that had been rendered dangerouso by constant construction-related traffic. None of these impassioned complaints appeared to engender much sympathy from the board, or indeed from the three Related Digital executives who were sitting against the wall observing the proceedings.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Whoa establishing AI guardrails in schools is part of the newly won OEA agreement with Oakland Unified School District

Beyond compensation, this agreement:
• Makes important improvements to working and learning conditions
• Strengthens class size commitments
• Enhances preparation time for elementary teachers
• Establishes clear guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence in schools
• Reinforces safety protections for staff
• Formalizes dedicated intervention and enrichment time to ensure students who need additional support receive it consistently and equitably
At the heart of this agreement is our shared responsibility to Oakland's students. It reflects our commitment to provide our educators with competitive compensation and professional supports, and give our students the stable thriving schools they deserve

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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...

Text reads: “new report: turning the tide: climate action in and against tech by Tamara Kneese, Data & Society” with an image of Data Centers in front of an orange sky with images of protestors juxtaposed with tech work happening

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Anyway this week I’ve been reading two memoirs that are pleasurable to read, written by people who know how to write, and not about affairs with misshapen freaks

Copy of The Boy Kings: A Journey into the heart of the Social Network by Katherine Losse next to a copy of The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin with a bookmark from Talley Ho! Books

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Let’s check in on The New York Post to see how they’re handling the Epstein news

NY Post headline about restaurant owner leaving NYC because of Mamdani

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Ketan Joshi on the environmental toll of Meta’s genAI advertising product newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Now Meta’s decision to go all in on the single most energy-intensive form of generative software, in a way that can only work through brute-force mass production and cannot be boycotted or turned off by users, will almost certainly boost a fossil fuel industry still smarting from the unexpected growth of wind, solar, and climate regulations

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

You know what time it is: Family record party time

Family record party night: Fleetwood Mac Rumours

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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

Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Dark forces have descended upon the city of San Francisco

Welcome to the Agentic Enterprise sign at Dreamforce

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Good morning to this gorgeous creature

Giant white dog with a bronze collar sprawled on the subway car floor

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Cool news to land to thanks 2025

Screenshot from cnn health that says It’s “too much liquid, too many different things are going into that baby,” Trump said without providing further evidence

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This is me on vacation now, ready for middle aged battle

Me with way more white hair, not smiling and wearing glasses because I forgot my contact solution while sporting a Sontag hat

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This was me on my last vacation 10 years ago, when we drove from Portland to Vancouver. I was so happy then and blissfully ignorant of the many horrors to come!

Me smiling on a sunny Vancouver day at 31 but it feels more like I have aged 31 years since then tbh

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

From our intro to the collection, which should be out in a few months 🔮

The black boxed nature of algorithms imparts to their inner workings a sense of mystery, turning programmers into sorcerers. Critics have observed the metaphysical dimensions of predictive technologies such as large language models (LLMs), and where some users see in them the doom of potential extinction, others see the ability to communicate with the dead or achieve digital immortality. In their omnipresence and putative prescience, even more mundane contemporary media technologies take on occult attributes, whether channeled through Alexa’s disembodied voices or Co–Star’s astrological push notifications. Media’s capacity to speak to the spirit realm—through radio static, telegraphic co-presence, or the creepy shadows of Kirlian photography—precede the digital, even as algorithms vector and intensify these occult energies in new ways. Like pre-digital forms of spirit communication and divination, predictive AI presents the possibility of order in chaotic times. This extends to the commercial sector, as digital applications of occult media such as Tarot associate such platforms with the aura of a good life. The occult offers comfort in the face of extractive precarity.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I don’t know if starting this tonight was such a good idea

Me holding a copy of the 2024 edition of Dead Cities by Mike Davis with a little fox themed bookmark saving my spot

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Seems like everyone in Oakland is on their way to No Kings today

Homemade “fuck ICE” sign in a shop window

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Do you think a depressed person could make this?

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy book release day to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social! If you’re in the Bay Area, I’m moderating a little convo with the esteemed authors of the AI Con at Clio’s this Sunday afternoon

Copy of The AI Con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want with my blue hand book mark

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Something so comforting about 1980s photos of my mom. Familiar brands, the lighting in our tiny apartment, and baby me

A dark haired smiling woman with painted nails looking at a baby in a chair with a kitchenette visible

A small dark haired woman holding a bang with a box of Grape-Nuts and Entenmenn’s baked goods on the small vintage fridge in the background

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Chapter 8: Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This is exactly it. Silicon Valley preppers + the delusional architects of AI addled techno fascism aren’t denying climate change, they’re remaking society to save themselves while pushing for speculative energy futures where they fully control the earth’s resources www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Screenshot from the Nation: “Many of the people who are building bugout bunkers for the impending civilizational collapse are the same people allowing, if not bankrolling, the destruction of public institutions and democratic forms of the rule of law. Because when the sea levels rise, when people are displaced by climate injustice, we can either choose the path of justice and solidarity for all or we can choose the path of death and destruction for most, and security for a few, and they are trying their hardest to force society onto the path of the latter”

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Damn, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. Do the WorldCoin Orb as evil prophetic object next dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...

Screenshot of text: “But the golden pager isn’t that kind of simple espionage story. Instead, the omen portended by the gift of the golden pager is inextricably tied to its physical form and mode of circulation: a piece of good-enough propaganda professing the domination of pager-time over tree-time, deposited in the heart of empire. If you listen closely (to history, at least), the arrival of the wooden object sounds less like the shock of the new and more like a return, a looping back, a boomerang.”

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Did a quick little tarot spread to ask about America’s Situation

Six of Cups from the Rider Waite deck in the past position, reversed Five of Swords in the present position, Justice in the future position

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Oh my god I kind of need a Mormon transhumanist take on this all

More from WSJ article:

“Musk often has Birchall step in to handle negotiations with the women over arrangements for the pregnancy and financial support after.

The arrangements play out in similar ways for the different women, according to a document and people familiar with the matter.

Birchall was involved in acquiring the property for a compound in Austin where Musk imagined the women and his growing number of babies would all live among multiple residences, according to a person familiar with the matter.
He is involved in other property deals across Musk's different businesses

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Look what just showed up at my door! Everyone should snag a copy of The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social

A copy of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily W Bender and Alex Hanna sitting on my black footstool

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I’ll take the cringe over the doom

A group of protestors in Oakland with a sign that says “Stop the fascist coup”

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“In a note titled ‘There Will Be Blood,’ economists at JPMorgan Chase said they now see the chance of a US recession at 60%, double the probability they had at the start of the year. They reckon the tariffs are equivalent to the biggest US tax hike since 1968”

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I don’t get it. Is this a glitch? Or something else?

Tweet from September from Israeli journalist. I can retweet it or quote tweet it but I can’t undo the retweet. Only tweet I am having trouble with

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I almost posted with this image

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

From @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social’s newsletter about his new book! Can’t wait for The Pacific Circuit

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My awful photos are from early 2017, when we went to airports to protest the Muslim ban, carrying signs that said “no ban, no wall.” At PDX, the Oath Keepers and other generic Nazis unsuccessfully tried to start fights with the crowd. In 2025, it feels like those fringe groups are the ones in power

People carrying signs inside of the airport

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“The ship is going down. The NSF workforce cries ‘to the pumps’. NSF leaders are drilling more holes in the hull. And no, you are NOT doing it to save NSF. You could have saved NSF's soul, but instead you are ruining it”

Today NSF Director called a meeting to tell 10% of our workforce "you are fired" and then he did not even have a decency to show up to deliver the message in person. We have seen similar cruel and incompetent behavior in the past, just to mention the way the recent salary decrease was handled; with cruelty, manipulation and miscommunication.
In those difficult times NSF leadership could shine. After all, NSF is unique across the government through our commitment to truth, reason and objectivity.
Instead, NSF leadership leaves behind a legacy of spineless servitude mixed with gross incompetence.
At the top of NSF we need people who radiate epistemic authority; beacons of faith in the power of research and education to benefit the Nation. People who can stand for principles, object injustice, and if needed take the fall for defending the mission. People who can lead.
What we have instead is blades of grass, bending in the wind, however it blows. People without a shred of empathy, unable even to deliver bad news in a humane, organized and sympathetic way. People who do not discuss anything, are not interested in opinion of the Agency they lead, who hide and make decisions behind closed doors. People who do not show up. People who break the rules, such as the Collective Bargaining Agreement, over, and over, and over again, without a shred of responsibility, respect or liability. People who are so incompetent, they cannot even start their own meeting on time, calculate salaries properly, record proper probation period... the list is endless.
The ship is going down. The NSF workforce cries "to the pumps". NSF leaders are drilling more holes in the hull.
And no, you are NOT doing it to save NSF. You could have saved NSF's soul, but instead you are ruining it.
Shame on you.
Finally, to our friends fired today: we appreciate you and thank you for your service. Words cannot describe how devastating the news of your shameful firing today are to all of us.

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

12 years ago I found the best valentine

A younger underfed red and white chiweenie lounging in his dog bed

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