tèmítópé lasade-a
@temilasade.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ Kings CMCI
Digital intimacy, friendship and diaspora • Digital justice • Black feminisms
Executive Director @ Glitch
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Digital intimacy, friendship and diaspora • Digital justice • Black feminisms
Executive Director @ Glitch
Views my own
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Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading.
This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.
1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.
1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
January 21, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading.
This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.
1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.
1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.
I present to you my most recent research article: “Ideology as/of Platform Affordance and Black Feminist Conceptualizations of “Canceling”: Reading Twitter”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I present to you my most recent research article: “Ideology as/of Platform Affordance and Black Feminist Conceptualizations of “Canceling”: Reading Twitter”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Why are so many people following me 🥹
January 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Why are so many people following me 🥹
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Care is the holy grail of automation. Because we need it to survive, but it's too labor-intensive to be profitable, even as it gets more expensive. And because we could make it a public good, but only by raising taxes on billionaires.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Care is the holy grail of automation. Because we need it to survive, but it's too labor-intensive to be profitable, even as it gets more expensive. And because we could make it a public good, but only by raising taxes on billionaires.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
So, be *very* skeptical when they claim AI can replace care.
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never fails. I come back to this often, especially when i watch folks pleading with yt people to care. :(
Sister Outsider
‘Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider
‘Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
never fails. I come back to this often, especially when i watch folks pleading with yt people to care. :(
Sister Outsider
‘Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde
Sister Outsider
‘Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde
There is something very Empire about the mainstreaming of a framework of 'digital sovereignty' in tech policy spaces. Critiques of US internet and tech imperialism should not then induce a desire to have our 'own' versions of such extraction and control.
January 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
There is something very Empire about the mainstreaming of a framework of 'digital sovereignty' in tech policy spaces. Critiques of US internet and tech imperialism should not then induce a desire to have our 'own' versions of such extraction and control.
Twitter's AI (xAI) has been rampant lately - producing user-requested non consensual intimate images of women and sometimes children. Unsurprisingly, users have also been engaging in digital misogynoir. I comment in the Telegraph on this dehumanising harassment and abuse.
Musk’s AI attacked for turning politicians and celebrities white
Social media chatbot generated ‘dehumanising’ images that changed skin colour of well-known women
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Twitter's AI (xAI) has been rampant lately - producing user-requested non consensual intimate images of women and sometimes children. Unsurprisingly, users have also been engaging in digital misogynoir. I comment in the Telegraph on this dehumanising harassment and abuse.
Extremely tired of living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Extremely tired of living through precedented times
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In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
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TLDR: The paper I'm teaching tomorrow finds that the shadow of enslavement is SO LONG that there's NO level of saving, education, capital gains, wealth tax, or income redistribution that closes the racial wealth gap.
Only one thing closes the gap: REPARATIONS.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Only one thing closes the gap: REPARATIONS.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
March 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
TLDR: The paper I'm teaching tomorrow finds that the shadow of enslavement is SO LONG that there's NO level of saving, education, capital gains, wealth tax, or income redistribution that closes the racial wealth gap.
Only one thing closes the gap: REPARATIONS.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Only one thing closes the gap: REPARATIONS.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
One data set down, one more to go (20 interviews) 🥹#iykyk #thematicanalysis. Thanking the stars for Braun and Clarke boii #phdarchive
December 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One data set down, one more to go (20 interviews) 🥹#iykyk #thematicanalysis. Thanking the stars for Braun and Clarke boii #phdarchive
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It's a mistake to think of the attempt to deport researchers as a slippery slope, because multiple boulders have been rolled down the hill at once from many different angles, including:
- threats to funders
- threats to 501c3 status
- arrest on the streets
- cuts in funding
- congressional inquiries
- threats to funders
- threats to 501c3 status
- arrest on the streets
- cuts in funding
- congressional inquiries
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It's a mistake to think of the attempt to deport researchers as a slippery slope, because multiple boulders have been rolled down the hill at once from many different angles, including:
- threats to funders
- threats to 501c3 status
- arrest on the streets
- cuts in funding
- congressional inquiries
- threats to funders
- threats to 501c3 status
- arrest on the streets
- cuts in funding
- congressional inquiries
Undoubtedly
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Undoubtedly
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NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
A message to America: we are not your enemy
Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features
This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...
cdt.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
Need that book on close reading expeditiously
December 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Need that book on close reading expeditiously
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4chan is just as influential as Fox News, X, instagram and Facebook. You might not realize this because of the Cambridge analytica settlement or literal uprisings catalyzed by them or because you know how numbers work but it’s actually true
April 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
4chan is just as influential as Fox News, X, instagram and Facebook. You might not realize this because of the Cambridge analytica settlement or literal uprisings catalyzed by them or because you know how numbers work but it’s actually true
No more 'digital colonialism', only 'technocoloniality' and 'technocolonialism' i fear 🙂↔️. I think Madianou's correct on the necessity of explicitly naming 'infrastracturing' in the framework for analysing the nexus of tech solutionism/(racial) capitalism, colonialism, humanitarianism.
April 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No more 'digital colonialism', only 'technocoloniality' and 'technocolonialism' i fear 🙂↔️. I think Madianou's correct on the necessity of explicitly naming 'infrastracturing' in the framework for analysing the nexus of tech solutionism/(racial) capitalism, colonialism, humanitarianism.
Shout out to @maevewalsh.bsky.social and @osanetwork.bsky.social because the newsletter is so helpful in showing me what I have inevitably missed 🥲
April 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Shout out to @maevewalsh.bsky.social and @osanetwork.bsky.social because the newsletter is so helpful in showing me what I have inevitably missed 🥲
Not loving the nation-state of it all regarding the intersection of economics and tech. Now seeing EU folks saying we need to secure Europe's 'digital sovereignty' and I just...*sigh*
April 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not loving the nation-state of it all regarding the intersection of economics and tech. Now seeing EU folks saying we need to secure Europe's 'digital sovereignty' and I just...*sigh*
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🔖 RSVP for April 16: Join the @smex.org team for this Community Knowledge Share webinar as they share their #tech and #policy work and the impact it has had on analyzing and reviewing #apps.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🔖 RSVP for April 16: Join the @smex.org team for this Community Knowledge Share webinar as they share their #tech and #policy work and the impact it has had on analyzing and reviewing #apps.
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I’m unsure of the utility of framing the issue of public sector AI as one around ‘public trust’ instead of fundamental rights
March 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m unsure of the utility of framing the issue of public sector AI as one around ‘public trust’ instead of fundamental rights
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Letting safety be individualized (fend for yourself politics) as became popular with covid I guess
Canadian universities are not putting out official travel advisories against travel to the US for work because ??
I'm not joking. The U.S. is disappearing people and sending folks to concentration camps domestically and internationally.
March 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Letting safety be individualized (fend for yourself politics) as became popular with covid I guess
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FYI, the USG gave border officials the authority to search visa holder’s phones and laptops at the border several years ago. Yes people complained but as non-citizens visa holders have no standing to bring litigation in US courts so the rule largely went unchallenged. This is an expansion of that.
Hey Canadians:
I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
FYI, the USG gave border officials the authority to search visa holder’s phones and laptops at the border several years ago. Yes people complained but as non-citizens visa holders have no standing to bring litigation in US courts so the rule largely went unchallenged. This is an expansion of that.