This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

When he finally kicks the bucket, can we all collectively agree to never speak his name again?

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Am I having a baby just so I won’t have to write or edit anything for a while? Maybe

From lithium mines in Nevada to salt flats in Chile to towns and cities across the US, the AI boom's resource demands link local communities to global supply chains—and the same fight for environmental justice, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.

Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social

A reminder to join us this Friday, 12pm to hear from @rebeccawilliams.info @technolua.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social B.Wylie & J.Bolthouse @ UVA & online. Free & open to the public: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita... @uvadatascience.bsky.social

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

Does your employer have contracts with ICE? Is your workplace unprepared if ICE shows up on site? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, we can help you organize your co-workers to fight back. 🧵

Makes sense that my college nemesis is posting about building friendly AGI

My mom’s texting me from the closing Macy’s in a dying mall in NJ, says it feels like a funeral

Our friends at Revue Ouvrage have translated Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry into French! Special thanks to Sandrine Bell for her work. www.revue-ouvrage.org/lenquete-ouv... @commonnotions.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @gleemie.bsky.social

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Jersey strong, baby

Teaching my child about the old ways (putting nutritional yeast on popcorn)

WaPo reviewing my book was the biggest thrill. Enraging to see so many fantastic reporters lose their jobs because billionaires destroy everything

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.

New! Anuli Akanegbu’s report “(404) Job Not Found” interrogates what it means to be perceived as “AI literate” in today’s labor market, & how those perceptions are shaping the career outcomes of Black workers who are already navigating a wide range of inequities. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/404-...

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

As we navigate the undermining of democratic processes & witness how tech facilitates/resists authoritarianism, join us on Feb 20@12pm to hear from @technolua.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social @royapak.bsky.social B.Wylie, J.Bolthouse dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita...

What we’ve learned is that Nazi shaped = Nazi and pedophile shaped = pedophile

New commentary by @cellllla.bsky.social, @perhaxis.bsky.social and myself: "The tech worker movement and the rise of the tech oligarchy". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The mother of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who is detained with the father in an ICE Texas facility, says the boy "is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality. He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!

🚨 Best conference alert!!🚨 Submit to SIGCIS 2026! Hybrid at UC Berkeley this June, with CFP deadline in just under 3 weeks. Keynote by the remarkable Dwai Banerjee!!

A kindergartener is one of a growing number of children in Maine who have been left without a parent as the Trump administration carries out a major immigration enforcement effort, according to local officials.

Join Capacitor Collective as they celebrate the release of NOTES TOWARD A DIGITAL WORKERS' INQUIRY, "an exemplary demonstration of how inquiry can function simultaneously as a mode of collective action and a form of critical theory." 2/12/26 in Toronto and 2/13/26 Montreal. Save the dates!

My neighbor, a single mother of two in South Minneapolis, was abducted today and everything about it is heartbreaking. There is an immediate (and steep) financial need for lawyer costs. I know there are so, so many of these right now, but please consider this dear family: gofund.me/9516b14f7

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force. @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Hexing works

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti. We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO

The Democrats continue to fund this and own it too “Nearly every child we spoke to was sick – and it seemed there was an epidemic of illnesses going around. Families reported that their children were malnourished, extremely ill, and suffering profoundly from prolonged detention”

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

ICE kidnapped a 5 year old in Minnesota and sent him *by himself* to fucking Texas

Will I even be able to get my new baby a passport in this decaying husk of an empire? How long do we keep riding with the wheels fully off?

Amidst the fixation with semiconductors and geopolitics, how did Taiwan become a center of global electronics? Who were the people that powered its rise, and what happens when the tinkerer becomes the tycoon? I review Honghong Tinn's Island Tinkerers @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Limn 13 Spotlight Series Tamara Kneese questions the credibility of AI chatbots in tracing family histories of Yiddish theater. Limn 13 - Ghostwriters Out now. limn.press/article/data...

A very strange turn of phrase in a WaPo article about protein I was using to distract myself from the runaway bus: “Entire data centers are devoted to the debate…” This seems new, measuring online discourse in data center usage