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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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.
datasociety.net
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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.
premthakker.bsky.social
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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sherylnyt.bsky.social
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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oregonian.com
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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diplomatofnight.com
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.
tamigraph.bsky.social
Sorry, late to this bc I stepped away from the doom machine for a couple hours
tamigraph.bsky.social
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
tamigraph.bsky.social
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.bsky.social
“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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tamigraph.bsky.social
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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dlknowles.bsky.social
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

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
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.
southsideweekly.com
tamigraph.bsky.social
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
tamigraph.bsky.social
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
tamigraph.bsky.social
Thanks. One of my current research projects focuses on Data Center Alley!
tamigraph.bsky.social
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…?
tamigraph.bsky.social
lol thank you for writing this.
tamigraph.bsky.social
They should have gone with this
Darth Vader uni piper guy with the iconic Portland neon sign behind him
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kristinacooke.bsky.social
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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profmarylewis.bsky.social
Excellent resolution from UVA. Well done, @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Now, friends at Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Texas, etc need to step up.
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commonnotions.bsky.social
NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY by The Capacitor Collective delivers first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s burgeoning labor movement.

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Orange graphic with the photo of the front cover and the brief description in the post's text orange graphic with the front cover of the book and the discount code for 25% off: digitalworkers
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datasociety.bsky.social
How is AI changing the nature of scams? @lanalanalana.bsky.social & @alicetiara.bsky.social spoke to @alixdunn.com on @themaybe.org to explain how AI automates & scales the work already being done in massive, exploitative “cybercrime compounds” around the world. www.themaybe.org/podcast/gotc...
The Maybe
www.themaybe.org