iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So exciting to see the CFP for this new volume on DH & AI out in the world! Edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org, part of the Debates in DH series @uminnpress.bsky.social. Deadline 11/1/26 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 16/09/2026

there are three types of t&s worker 1: well-paid permanent employee who is not a subject matter expert and never studied the social sciences 2: underpaid contract worker SME who repeatedly explains the same things to 1 3: borderline slave in south asia trapped in the Child Torture Porn Cube

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes somehow their representation of women got worse over time. Like the industry generally which saw itself as non-sexist. At least they own it now.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

HEY JENNA! I read Wired while breastfeeding! Agree, it looked better than it read a lot of times. Sherry Turkle is on one of the early covers, though, which was hugely inspiring! So sad that seeing any woman, even one I don't agree with, was cause to celebrate. Standards were so low then.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Truly worth reading. Borsook was, to me, like Ellen Ullman a rare and inspiring writer in the 90’s, a tech insider who was also a woman. Feminist or not, simply being that in the Valley was so unusual then. And taken for granted that it was rare, and would disappear.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

social media has enormously enriched my personal and intellectual life but i think it's a plague and a blight and if you use it too much you almost inevitably go insane

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There go the arts humanities and social science. What’s left is high class trade school.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of the sickest burns in all of English literature. An excerpt from one of the most revered novels, EM Forster’s Howard’s End.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I always liked Southwest Airlines and this is a reminder of why: workers refused to let ICE agents board a plane and blocked their view of a screen www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Airline workers reportedly decline to help US agents as Trump migrant crackdown accelerates

Expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrests

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What a great, fun conversation this was! It’s not often the case that you get to do a podcast with IRL friends who are also experts in your field. There’s some pretty mind blowing insights esp from @cassiusa.bsky.social highly recommend!

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Contagion” is my comfort movie. It’s got women researchers in it as a matter of course, normal people show incredible bravery, and Marion cotillard is so transcendently beautiful in it

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Essential reading from @shobitap.org in @science.org: the concept of "sacrifice zones" described communities near industrial or military sites. "Sacrifice subjects" names who bears the risks of new technologies. People-first regulation, she argues, starts with that question.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Why does Amazon think I want to go as Run DMC to Memorial Day

Memorial Day Sale
Up to 50% off Amazon Outlet

Along with images of blue Nike knockoffs, a red brimmed has, and square blue sunglasses that all together look like a run DMC outfit

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Together, the A.I.eeeee!!! Collective spent the week writing and developing a new collaborative book project, Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire (working title). We’re excited to share more about the book’s release soon!

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A wonderful essay on mental illness from Luca Turin, a wonderful writer on perfume open.substack.com/pub/lucaturi...

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My friend M

and what happened to her

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Was Ching chonged in the French Quarter during trip to NOLA to speak at Tulane. Very surprised, then realized that there were almost no Asians around. This seems new. Anyway worse things have happened than hearing “me Chinese me play joke” from a young white man on a bike.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is very good. It could also sub “academic” for “writer.” I’m against urging our absolute best students to “go to grad school” but sadly it is usually what happens. I never say that now.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“Drawing upon James and Grace Lee Boggs’s expanded notion of the cybercultural era, Brian Bartell demonstrates how a range of artists, writers, and activists from the 1960s prefigured the wider discourse around automation and made it a central concern of their politics.”

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On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution

Uncovering the Black Power movement’s contributions to theorizing the politics of automation On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution offers a comp...

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m not a eugenicist but this is their DNA.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Bringing the rejection of intimacy and sociality to a new level, how does this company keep stepping in it? "The so-called AI characters were developed as Zuckerberg noted the success of AI companion start-up Character AI" Any tech that harms youth seems irresistible to this company.

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Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"China’s Jaecoo 7 SUV, with a starting price of £29,000, became the UK’s best-selling car in March." This article is not a shopping list but a warning about Chinese manufacturing overproduction in re: high end goods, bad for local business, brutal for competitiors giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world

Impelled by furious competition, hefty subsidies and sheer scale, the country’s companies are cutting a swath through the world’s most advanced industries

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Congratulations!!! I’ve been telling people about this book for years and now it’s here!

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Me and Ashlee Bird, prof of indigenous and digital media studies at Notre Dame, talk about methods for doing research with and about indigenous people and culture. Her work on Red Dead Redemption is incredible, check it out! This is an interview, not a normal article, fun conversation!

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

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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...

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I love the New Books Network podcasts, and many thanks to Miranda Melcher for interviewing me about my new one: _The Inattention Economy: How women of color build the internet_ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Podcast Episode · New Books in Science, Technology, and Society · March 18 · 44m

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

AI has been problematic in its implementation to say the least but a fantastic opportunity for digital theory which had its heyday in the 2000s

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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

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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

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

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/

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its about time we joined in the discourse #hmart #asianamericans #southasian #black #brown

TikTok video by jason

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 03/12/2025

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

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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...

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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

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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.

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