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.

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...

“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.”

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

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’

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.

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

"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

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

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!

Yes, would love that!

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Disintegrator Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behavior are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator Podcast is a limited series expl...

I absolutely love this podcast and its what happening in digitak theory always love to learn what Alex Galloway is doing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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”– lwww.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2...

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?