Lisa Nakamura
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” forthcoming from U. Minn press in 2026. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
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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
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
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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
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/
its about time we joined in the discourse #hmart #asianamericans #southasian #black #brown
TikTok video by jason
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December 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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/
The youth know.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The youth know.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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.
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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.
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(bursts in late, slamming the door open hard enough to dent the wall) JEFF BUCKLEY COVERED THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE??????????
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
(bursts in late, slamming the door open hard enough to dent the wall) JEFF BUCKLEY COVERED THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE??????????
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...
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
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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...
Love Lina Khan. What a great podcast guest, and she understands how tech monopolies work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Love Lina Khan. What a great podcast guest, and she understands how tech monopolies work www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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.
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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?
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?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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?
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?
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Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). Back when we all had personal homepages.
August 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
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...
James Watson obituary
Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance
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November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
When I see this BS I’m even more grateful to have been raised Japanese American. My 107 year grandmother wore elastic waist gardening trousers and dresses to church. That’s my fashion destiny (except church). www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
Anti-ageing trousers? There really is no fashion or beauty claim too wild
According to a neuroscientist, our brains are hardwired to keep falling for the latest beauty fads. It’s a booby trap too many of us fall down – and I should know
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When I see this BS I’m even more grateful to have been raised Japanese American. My 107 year grandmother wore elastic waist gardening trousers and dresses to church. That’s my fashion destiny (except church). www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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What do you wanna do now, Captain?
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
November 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
What do you wanna do now, Captain?
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
Same thing we always do. Fight ‘em until we can’t.
Nam June Paik’s robot K-546 was first shown at Judson Hall in 1964. It could refuse to labor, one of many ways it was interesting: “K-456 had foam breasts that could rotate and a penis made of sandpaper and flint, which Paik had removed before the two traveled to New York.”
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Nam June Paik’s robot K-546 was first shown at Judson Hall in 1964. It could refuse to labor, one of many ways it was interesting: “K-456 had foam breasts that could rotate and a penis made of sandpaper and flint, which Paik had removed before the two traveled to New York.”
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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There is nothing more annoying than taking someone to a restaurant and having them demanding to know whether this or that is "authentic", buddy do you like the taste or not I'm not a food history documentarian here and neither are you, we came for lunch
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
There is nothing more annoying than taking someone to a restaurant and having them demanding to know whether this or that is "authentic", buddy do you like the taste or not I'm not a food history documentarian here and neither are you, we came for lunch
Always love chris gilliards take on what he calls “luxury surveilance,” cant wait for this book to drop. an extra good convo with Paris Marx about why not to strap a computer to your face. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard
Podcast Episode · Tech Won't Save Us · 10/16/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Always love chris gilliards take on what he calls “luxury surveilance,” cant wait for this book to drop. an extra good convo with Paris Marx about why not to strap a computer to your face. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity
August 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
it's less "AI drives people to kill themselves" and more that "tech companies do it, and are indifferent about it". and, bleakly, some journalists seem determined to convince you that the focal point of this story is a high point of engineering rather than a low point of humanity
The news is a shitshow and we live in a fascist state. When I want to feel better I read this list of scientists, writers, activists who got up every day and got on that grind, often for 20+ years, because they wanted to. www.nytimes.com/article/nobe...
What to Know About the 2024 Nobel Prize Winners
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The news is a shitshow and we live in a fascist state. When I want to feel better I read this list of scientists, writers, activists who got up every day and got on that grind, often for 20+ years, because they wanted to. www.nytimes.com/article/nobe...
“El Conejo Malo” will now always think of him this way even though I don’t know Spanish. Love him too.
See I’m here to say something similar.
No such thing as “too old” for el conejo malo. I’m 60 and just bought tix for his Santo Domingo show. I know an 82 yo woman who loves his music
No such thing as “too old” for el conejo malo. I’m 60 and just bought tix for his Santo Domingo show. I know an 82 yo woman who loves his music
I love bad bunny and I’m a 75 year old grandma
October 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“El Conejo Malo” will now always think of him this way even though I don’t know Spanish. Love him too.
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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
October 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
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social media was a mistake and if we have to talk to ppl on the internet let it be on forums
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
social media was a mistake and if we have to talk to ppl on the internet let it be on forums