Lisa Nakamura

“El Conejo Malo” will now always think of him this way even though I don’t know Spanish. Love him too.

Yay David! So well deserved!

I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks

social media was a mistake and if we have to talk to ppl on the internet let it be on forums

The U.S. set the stage for a coup in Chile. It had unintended consequences at home When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing dictator.

speaking of political assassinations, today we denounce again the dark beginning of neoliberalism, the assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, a military coup backed by United States.

'The U.S. spent $8 million on covert actions between 1970 and the 1973 coup'.

www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1...

I can’t lie, I’ve done this more than once.

VERY surprised by this. I assumed that intellectual property theft was intrinsic to the gen AI business model. It still is but now it costs a little.

Casio is good taste and the watch of choice among Buddhist poc in my experience. He knows the code.

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI

Replacing human moderators with ai is glossing over the real issue here: toxic content comes from a systemic disinvestment in care, equity, and fairness. Traumatizing humans or using ineffectual ai just kicks the can down the road. Not news.

Really really good, some of the best thinking on infrastructure out there! Especially the piece on water by my colleague Tung-Hui Hu that suggests we think about AI as we do government: just another infrastructure, not an impenetrable inevitability

Got copy edited text of my book manuscript The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet and boy what a luxury it is to see it cleaned up so nicely. I love copy editors so much.

Thanks for posting this! Life @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social ‘s work. New version of this article with oral history interviews with Navajo workers coming out in my new book The Inattention Economy this fall!

Harvard agrees to transfer early photos of enslaved people to African American museum University settles with Tamara Lanier, who says she is descendent of people featured in 175-year-old images

Well this is incredible and very welcome these family photos of renty and Delia are central to the study of race and visual culture www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was about to share the same story. I think we knew this was coming.

just buy some Spanish language radio stations I'm fucking begging you

Sing it.

He gave such great feedback on the indigenous circuits work, on account of him being a real media historian vs what I do. His validation meant so much to me and everyone he knew. Thanks, @askjerseth.bsky.social I always taught him too.

This one took me over ten years to write. It's not long because unlike my dear friend Jonathan Sterne, may his memory be a blessing, I like to get in and out in a hurry. But I put my heart into every chapter and I tried sincerely to make it not-boring. Maybe 80% of it was cut at some point.

My book ms "The Inattention Economy: Seeing the Digital Labor of Women of Color” is in production at the University of Minnesota Press. So grateful to Anne Carter and Leah Pennywark at UMP. It's a book about how the work of digital infrastructure became women of colors' work and thus invisible

I left it all on the field today.

YouTube video by Action Picks Attacked In The Mountains (Jeremy Renner) | The Bourne Legacy

I am not a gun person but watching jeremy renner put one together does something for me youtube.com/watch?v=oGpN...

Right wing academic trolls are showing up in our events. Today during a panel of indigenous scholars talking about their research a Zoom participant asked whether they had to sign Conflict of Interest (COI) statements before researching their communities to prevent "biased results." Was speechless.

Bl has never been arrested for wearing her purple and black scarf. At least that is okay for now. You’d have to be a whole nother level of heartless to harass a therapy dog on the job!

Newly relevant now, sadly. It is good to withhold your labor from totalitarian regimes.

My therapy dog Blake lively’s work fits. She and I go to assisted living, school, the childrens psych unit, and other places we are sent.

i *want* to get an impulsive tattoo but what im *going to do* instead is host sedar.

I really love John Salley. He’s an old school nba star who became a vegan and gives some great interviews.

Love Jonathan. I went to the protest which I think he would have liked but am so sorry to have missed this and I’m grateful it happened. We wrote letters for each other for decades.

Event flier for Building the Indigenous Internet panel and Q&A featuring headshots of Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and Lisa Nakamura. Flier text: This panel brings together key voices in infrastructure as broadly imagined, data sovereignty and decolonial perspectives to critically explore the history, present, and future of the Indigenous Internet. The conversation will showcase how Indigenous knowledge has and will continue to shape data worlds by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on emerging technologies--ranging from computer science, artificial intelligence, social media, online activism, the work of infrastructure and circuit building, and beyond. By centering Indigenous voices, the discussion aims to create transformative visions for a sustainable, equitable, and inclusive digital future while inviting speculative thinking about post-settler digital worlds. Free copies of Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age (MIT Press) by Ashley Cordes will be available for the first 50 attendees!

UPCOMING: Join us in-person or virtually for a conversation about Building the Indigenous Internet, with Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and @lnakamura.bsky.social

🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET

📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom

More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932

A Mysterious Group Says Its Mission Is to Expose Antisemitic Students (Gift Article) Civil rights advocates say Canary Mission is doxxing critics of Israel and providing a possible road map for immigration agents as they sweep up students in a campus crackdown.

“Immigration lawyers and experts point to coincidences that suggest to them that the information circulated by Canary Mission and another pro-Israel group, Betar, may be providing road maps for ICE enforcement actions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...