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...

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...

What do you wanna do now, Captain? 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.”

A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

“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...

OK, a break from the horrible craziness: if you live in Ann Arbor and want to get stronger, I highly recommend Forged Barbell, a woman-owned and run power lifting gym on the west side of town. I’ve been going for almost 6 months and lifting as much as I possibly can helps a LOT right now.

All dei programs closed at u michigan and oh lord so horrified that it was the work of our first asian american univeristy president www.freep.com/story/news/e...

I absolutely love this podcast and this question because people take it so seriously.You never forget the first person to bust your ass. youtube.com/watch?v=cVUi...

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

I was feeling tired and beaten down at work and then found a huge pan full of fried rosemary wedge potatoes in the break room as well as some Zingermans coffee cake. I made some tea and I was in business. It was just what I needed: double starch and caffeine.

Hey remember that time a bunch of losers got mad at a lady who made a video game about depression and it led to several thousand federal employees losing their jobs

the democratic party leadership sorely underestimates how much young people fucking despise them

“Dick rockets.” Give this lady a medal.

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

This song has Japanese movie dialogue, explosions, eagles screaming, memphis samples, sleigh bells, snare drum sounds, sometimes overlapping, in short it is the perfect song for me. open.spotify.com/track/1D3YBr...

I wonder if the wave of programmer firings because of Ai might proletarianize that profession in a way that could could distribute power differently?

Why is the diamond crystal salt package so soigne

I never thought of it that way, but yes, Buddhism and swimming. Both make me always make me feel better after, probl swimming more so. It’s the closest thing to space travel that I’ll ever experience.

Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone?

Penn has always wanted to be the nation's leading university and it finally is -- in chickenshit cowardice I guess when your most famous alums are Donald Trump and Elon Musk you have a legacy to live down to www.inquirer.com/education/un...