I thought I was burned out and depressed but I’m actually burned out, depressed, and mildly anemic

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...

What a cool project from @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and her students documenting xAI's data centers in Memphis. The website is "a targeted lens on a specific locale and a window into AI’s infrastructural expansion" and has a "StoryMap, providing a place-based account of the story and its stakes."

Sorry chiweenie, our PG&E bill is apparently over $300 this month because of the cold snap, so we are turning off the heat and you’re going in your jingle balls dog sweater

some notes on "regenerative data cultures" and "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨ jonathangray.org/2025/12/16/s... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜

I held off on telling people in my new workplace that I don’t have Spotify and that we mostly listen to records or the radio in my house

Some lovely words from Nick Dyer-Witheford for Notes Toward a Digital Workers' Inquiry, co-authored w/ Julie Chen, Alessandro Delfanti, Brian Dolber, @gleemie.bsky.social & @tamigraph.bsky.social, & published by @commonnotions.bsky.social. Get it at: buff.ly/9Li5A3U (DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE for 25% off)

Not sure people other than VC brained cylons will go for this www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Vital reading, which includes quotes from Holly and Will Alpine of the Enabled Emissions Campaign, whose work exposing green-AI-washing at Microsoft was supported by our talented team at @psst-org.bsky.social.

The fight is not over, but this is a bad development for the health and safety of Oakland - and especially West Oakland. Capital does not value human life. share.google/n7qCOCIwEXwx...

Increasingly wondering what will be left (aside from like Palantir) when the regime finally crumbles gothamist.com/news/the-new...

I attended an awesome Media Justice webinar this evening with panelists who are on the ground organizing the refusal against data centers in their communities in the U.S. Southwest. I like to think I'm pretty up to date on data center stories, but here are three things I learned:

I’m at the San Francisco Public Library tomorrow for a conversation about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence with @tamigraph.bsky.social n Iris Stewart-Frey sfpl.org/events/2025/... Feel free to DM or drop question ideas here 🙋🏾‍♂️💥🚀

Thought I looked pretty cute after I put on a jaunty scarf but my child asked me why I was wearing a bib

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...

Tomorrow at 1pm ET: Join us online as @tamigraph.bsky.social discusses the findings of her report with Eliza Pan of @amzn4climate.bsky.social and @khari.bsky.social! 3/3 datasociety.net/events/clima...

🚨 New today! In "Turning the Tide: Climate Action In and Against Tech," @tamigraph.bsky.social examines how, in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, climate-conscious tech workers and larger coalitions have attempted to reform the industry. 1/3 datasociety.net/library/turn...

because i could not clank for death — he kindly clanked for me —

In this episode I speak with friends-neighbours-advocates Meg Rintoul and Kathryn Barnwell about current plans in place to build an AI data center in Nanaimo, B-C. -- and allowing ourselves to write a new story about the future. pca.st/episode/3c50...

I’m going to retire early in spirit if not in practice. Retiring early in spirit doesn’t require a 401k or any savings, it’s all about vibes

BREAKING: U.S. vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

In a new Points piece, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and the Kapor Foundation’s Cecilia Marrinan consider how California’s longstanding ties to the tech industry — and a history of environmental harm — connect to the threats the industry poses to the state today. datasociety.net/points/beyon...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥

Essential read if you want to know what ‘the rush for critical minerals’ looks like for Indigenous communities and remote watersheds in Canada. This one’s about my First Nation but who’s next. Great reporting by @sevawood.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/eskay-creek-...

🤩 NOTICE is back with another book rec! 🤩 This book blends research, worker testimony, and political analysis to ask: How is digital work organized? Who benefits? And how can workers build power within these systems? Dive in— pick up your copy today! 🔈 @gleemie.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social

When people ask for an AI summary of a 2K word critical article on data centers, and don’t even bother prompting the AI summary themselves, I think humanity is officially cooked

In a new Points piece, Hannah Lipstein & @tamigraph.bsky.social examine VA’s Data Center Alley, and explain why their research examines not only individual sites but “how the politics, economics, & cultural factors of a place" inform effective organizing strategies. datasociety.net/points/situa...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

On @palumboliu.bsky.social’s podcast, D&S's @tamigraph.bsky.social and Xiaowei Wang talk about the materiality of the technologies behind things like AI and the cloud, and preview the findings of Kneese’s report on climate conscious tech workers, coming next week! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Waymo is a menace “I was in a Waymo … Next thing I heard was yelping. I didn’t see the dog before the impact, but the kids were screaming about it.” missionlocal.org/2025/12/waym...

I had a lot of fun talking about my @ucpress.bsky.social book on this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Thanks to Megan Finn for letting me chat about Silicon Valley, activism, and the book on mutual aid I'm writing now. 🎧 in your fave podcast app or here: newbooksnetwork.com/appropriate-...

I've seen this starting to appear on LinkedIn too, and via some usually interesting critical thinkers. In qual research I've done this year, environmental impacts of AI have repeatedly bubbled up as a key public concern. Can't help but wonder if there are moves to close that down.

In a new Points piece, D&S researchers @livgar.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social reflect on what studying AI chatbots reveals about emotional attachment to machines, the power of illusion, and the norms and expectations that define care itself. datasociety.net/points/all-t...

Current mental state is laughing at the jokes in Zootopia 2

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

“It’s not just about what will happen if they succeed in developing superintelligence,” says a decade-long veteran in Amazon’s entertainment business. “What we’re trying to say is, look, the costs we’re paying now aren’t worth it. We are in the few remaining years to avoid catastrophic warming.”

If I could figure out how to make a decent gluten free bagel, I think I could be very rich. Gluten free bagels are an abomination

NEW from me: the Trump administration is moving new chemicals that have some link to data centers to the front of the line for approvals — creating huge loopholes to push all kinds of chemicals through, experts tell me, under potential political pressure

📣New paper! Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social 👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

That Committee on Technology is looking real promising 🤩

Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :) northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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.