Tamara Kneese

Collective Action School Logic School is an online, experimental school for tech workers

For tech workers looking for organize; apps are due 12/1 collectiveaction.school

December 11 @ 1 pm ET: Join us online as D&S's @tamigraph.bsky.social discusses her forthcoming report on how climate conscious tech workers are attempting to reform the tech industry from within, with Eliza Pan of @amzn4climate.bsky.social and @khari.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/clima...

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉

Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

The Reactor Around the Corner: Understanding Advanced Nuclear Energy Futures

🚨New report!🚨 Small modular reactors are seen as neat, carbon-free solutions to the problems of energy-hungry tech like AI. But our analysis @stpp-um.bsky.social argues it will have serious environmental, social, and justice impacts and offers 12 policy recommendations across the nuclear fuel cycle.

Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.

In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm

The dream of the 90s

I am so proud of this 🚨new report🚨, and its analysis of the environmental, social, economic, and justice impacts of advanced nuclear reactors, frequently touted as simple solutions to the problems of climate change, energy needs, and data centers. Learn more at our Dec 11th webinar! myumi.ch/2rp9w

ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras “Most drivers are unaware that San Jose’s Police Department is tracking their locations and do not know all that their saved location data can reveal about their private lives and activities."

San Jose is now facing a major lawsuit from the ACLU of Northern California and the EFF, challenging the city’s nearly 500 Flock license plate readers that track millions of vehicle scans every month.

www.404media.co/aclu...

#surveillance #privacy #Flock #civilrights #SanJose #ALPR
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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

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

I won’t do it, I won’t reply to the annoying email from a famous emeritus anthropologist who thinks I don’t understand AI. I WILL NOT

Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

U.S. data-center build-out status by year of construction or planning, in gigawatts of capacity Chart shows that data center build-out was in the single-digit gigawatts until '21 or so, then in 22 when chatgpt happened it goes hockey stick. 2025 planned data centers are *80 gigawatts*

My latest on the AI bubble in finance: 6 charts that tell the story in ways that are hard to put into words.

1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.

Thank you Matthew! I just cited your book in a forthcoming report btw :)

Asked my partner just now if they will laugh at my slides: “Well, they’re uniquely you” (deragatory)

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Meta must rein in scammers — or face consequences Scams are ruinous to users — but, reportedly, big business to Meta.

New in @theverge.com - half of US scams originate on a Meta property. The company must do more. @lanalanalana.bsky.social and I weigh in www.theverge.com/tech/820906/...

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous.

@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
www.404media.co/power-compan...

Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621

Maybe they’ll think it’s a bit

I’m so incredibly embarrassed to show European artists my slides on a giant screen tomorrow. I have zero slide game

much look forward to speaking about "regenerative data cultures" at "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/07/r... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜

Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.

They can deflect all they like, but it’s all going to come out sooner or later

NY Post headline about restaurant owner leaving NYC because of Mamdani

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

431. How Amazon Workers are Organizing for Climate Justice (ft. Eliza Pan, Dawn) [This episode was recorded before Amazon announced its massive layoffs.] We chat with Eliza and Dawn from the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice about their organizing campaigns and how they are hol

In the new TMK, we chat with folks from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice about their campaign to build solidarity among workers, confront the impacts of AI, apply pressure on corporate leadership, and agitate for socio-environmental justice at Amazon and beyond. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.

This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.

www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/

Archiving Machines Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...

Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!

A very cool woman I used to buy killer vintage from in Brooklyn is now an antique jewelry influencer with a book deal. I’m so happy for her and I feel like this also says something about the state of small retail

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

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

Discussion: Worker Led Movements against AI. With Tamara Kneese (Data & Society) and Sana Ahmad (Weizenbaum-Institute). November 17, 2025, 18h-20h, Online Event. Book Cover of Tamaras Book co-authored book „Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry”

⚠️ 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