Tamara Kneese

@tamigraph
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Oakland based climate/technology/labor/death researcher
Author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us In This Life And Beyond (Yale University Press 2023)
Hating on AI at Data & Society’s AIMLab

đź“„ New Institute publication:

Algorithms and the Occult
https://asapjournal.com/cluster/algorithms-and-the-occult/

ASAP Review cluster, edited by Tamara Kneese @tamigraph, Jeffrey Moro @jeffreymoro & Briana Vecchione.

feat. Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ Lucile Olympe Haute @luh2203
https://asapjournal.com/node/sigil-seance-against-space-billionaires/

Algorithms and the Occult - ASAP/Review

ASAP/Review
Dipping my toe in again idk

Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.

But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.

https://disconnect.blog/shame-on-the-elon-enablers/

#tech #elonmusk #trump #uselection #politics

Shame on the Elon enablers

Media and politicians created a monster and lost control of him

Disconnect

Should the accounts of dead people to stay around after they die? Why are tech billionaires preparing to turn themselves into chatbots?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @tamigraph to discuss what happens to our digital footprints when we die.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/239_what_happens_to_our_digital_footprints_when_we_die_w_tamara_kneese

#tech #facebook #socialmedia #ai #agi

What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese - Tech Won’t Save Us

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

Tech Won't Save Us
Next was an excellent talk by @davidthewid and @tamigraph on low-resource NLP and what computer science can learn from anthropology at the Design Justice AI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9Oyrf-fbk (3/12) #AI #ethics
DJAI Institute Plenary Panel on Decolonization and Beyond

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Thanks to Jacob Bruggeman for this conversation about Death Glitch in Cleveland Review of Books https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/tamara-kneese-coding-the-dead
Coding the Dead: An Interview with Tamara Kneese — Cleveland Review of Books

In Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond , technology scholar Tamara Kneese, director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab and former green software researcher at Intel, explores the precarity of our data and digital selves.

Cleveland Review of Books

@davidthewid and @tamigraph were next up in the plenary sessions for #DESIGNJUSTICEAI

"low resource" NLP means that there isn't a lot of data on the internet - simply being "included" isn't necessarily a good thing /1

Death Glitch

For Big Tech, death is a big, big problem.

Eventbrite

"How does transhumanism—the set of ideologies, technologies, and practices that aim to extend the human lifespan—embed itself in the mundane and the material, in products that are shipped and marketed at scale?" @tamigraph for The Baffler

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/memento-mori-kneese

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #Amazon #AI #Creepy

Memento Mori | Tamara Kneese

Techno-utopians think we can resuscitate the dead with data. But should we?

The Baffler
The final 3 talks on ENERGY join previous ones by @Aepasek @zgtcooper @tamigraph @dawnnafus et al! Enjoy and please let me know if you find them useful. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE_y90GftjpY1jBRaT0kdJxZV1SkF2-Zm
Electronics - Ecologies #3 Energy

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