Lisa Nakamura

Thanks dan!!

I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.

This is beyond a doubt the strangest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Totally agree!

It’s still not OK boomer: younger Americans are flailing – and mad as hell | J Oliver Conroy For young Americans, not being able to buy a house is more than a sob story. It’s the symbol of a broken social contract and a generational betrayal

Glad to see the Guardian list higher ed jobs as proletarian “prosaic” jobs, ie : “teacher, paralegal, professor, trucker, machinist”– lhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/07/boomer-millennial-gen-z-housing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

its about time we joined in the discourse #hmart #asianamericans #southasian #black #brown TikTok video by jason

What a fantastic teacher this guy is. Evidence that critical ethnic studies can be effectively taught on social media platforms. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ye2RhX/

Good riddance I say. Let them cosplay lord of the flies out there.

‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe Gen Z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back

The youth know.
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Almost finished Annie Bot. It’s good but the didn’t need to finish it to know that humans will create abusive relationships with AI and are already doing it.

Thrilled to see my book described as “exploring influencer culture,” given that it focuses almost solely on Tila Tequila. A dream of mine since 2008.

(bursts in late, slamming the door open hard enough to dent the wall) JEFF BUCKLEY COVERED THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE??????????

What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience Four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, tech, and society

Here's a (scholarly) rant about A.I. and the seeming paradox Asian Americans as complicit with it that me, Michelle Huang, and Tara Fickle wrote as part of a DISCOnetwork writing jam. Is A.I. the next Iron Chink? medium.com/@hatlabnorth...

Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices

Love Lina Khan. What a great podcast guest, and she understands how tech monopolies work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There’s no perfect solution to this. I can take my time to drink eat and digest in the am because no kids or others needing me to do anything that time of day.

Joyce carol Oates has been writing about culture for many more years than Elon musk has spent doing anything. Effortless own that she prob spent ten seconds thinking about before moving on with her day.

This looks incredible!

La brea tar pits

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

I work out early but drink tea, eat, etc first. Do you think that you need something in your stomach first? Works for me.

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HMMMMM

Yes we do. Surprised it lasted this long in a way

Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders

Esprit was elite. So aspirational for Bay Area girls in the eighties.

Love you Alexis, as always!

Thanks for the sweet words! When I started writing this things sucked significantly less than they do now. Thought I was too focused on the negatives then, def don’t think so now.

That’s the genealogy right there.

Radford, who wrote this for the Guardian, implies that Watson played up and may have exaggerated his eugenic beliefs because he loved “getting a rise out of people,” and that the only reason anyone listened was that he had won the Nobel. What a terrible use of an award.

Good lord. At least they tried to reverse course. I wonder how many other institutions have this kind of history…prob a lot. Thanks for the info!

Cold Spring Harbor Lab, the state of the art bio research center he founded, took away his titles and censured him. Science magazine, the flagship pub in the field, only publishes refs to Shockley with links to the history of his eugenic claims. Which were “science” claims.

James Watson obituary Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance

In case anyone needed reminding, racist trolls existed long before the Internet and at least two of them (Watson and. Wm Shockley, co inventor of the transistor) won Nobel Prizes, which encouraged them even more. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...