Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
@melhogan.bsky.social
Critical media scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈
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Hogan publications (2015-2025)
Clouded Conveniences (2024) An archive of suffering: hunger stones and the (n)ec(r)opoetics of climate crisis (2024) The Fumes of AI (2024) Big Cloud Solastalgia (2024) Nothing left. Nothing right (20...
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A list of everything I’ve written/published: (enviro/tech/AI/planet/necropolitics/etc)
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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The report charts the rapid adoption of text, image, audio and video generation technologies while spotlighting growing public concerns. "Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don’t understand its impacts" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/25/t...
Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don’t understand its impacts - Social Media Lab
When ChatGPT entered the public imagination in 2022, Canadians were curious, hopeful, anxious and had plenty of questions. Just three years later, our new report, The State of Generative AI Use in Can...
socialmedialab.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The report charts the rapid adoption of text, image, audio and video generation technologies while spotlighting growing public concerns. "Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don’t understand its impacts" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/25/t...
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This discussion started off with some of the ideas @dwj88.bsky.social and I wrote about in a post, "Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance," from July. Thanks to Mel for the opportunity to connect it to recent events and to discuss the growing dangers to civil rights.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This discussion started off with some of the ideas @dwj88.bsky.social and I wrote about in a post, "Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance," from July. Thanks to Mel for the opportunity to connect it to recent events and to discuss the growing dangers to civil rights.
Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social
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The movie "All of You" is a good commentary on the futures ushered in by "AI" where people will trust some formula over their own lived experiences and feelings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYE...
All Of You — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The movie "All of You" is a good commentary on the futures ushered in by "AI" where people will trust some formula over their own lived experiences and feelings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYE...
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SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
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Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
breachmedia.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
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ohhh, I see. They're going to try and remake higher ed the way they did with tech, by flooding the zone with frauds who crowd out any reasonable discussion
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ohhh, I see. They're going to try and remake higher ed the way they did with tech, by flooding the zone with frauds who crowd out any reasonable discussion
CHAPTER 9–Digital Emissions: Edtech Platforms and the Extended Carbon Relations of Higher Education Institutions
A. R. E. Taylor and Emanuela Vai
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
A. R. E. Taylor and Emanuela Vai
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
link.springer.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
CHAPTER 9–Digital Emissions: Edtech Platforms and the Extended Carbon Relations of Higher Education Institutions
A. R. E. Taylor and Emanuela Vai
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
A. R. E. Taylor and Emanuela Vai
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
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Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
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www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
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Il va pleuvoir des iguanes congelés : une vague de froid polaire déferle sur les Etats-Unis
Les températures atteindront de tels extrêmes que les iguanes, reptiles à sang froid qui se cachent dans les arbres, seront transis sur place
Les températures atteindront de tels extrêmes que les iguanes, reptiles à sang froid qui se cachent dans les arbres, seront transis sur place
Il va pleuvoir des iguanes congelés : une vague de froid polaire déferle sur les Etats-Unis
A partir de ce week-end, et jusqu’à mercredi, plus de 150 millions d’Américains vont devoir affronter des températures glaciales. Une masse d’air froide record depuis le XIXe siècle.
www.liberation.fr
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Il va pleuvoir des iguanes congelés : une vague de froid polaire déferle sur les Etats-Unis
Les températures atteindront de tels extrêmes que les iguanes, reptiles à sang froid qui se cachent dans les arbres, seront transis sur place
Les températures atteindront de tels extrêmes que les iguanes, reptiles à sang froid qui se cachent dans les arbres, seront transis sur place
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friends. I'm not sure there's time in my class next semester BUT: if you were to teach a piece/book by Vílem Flusser in a media theories grad class, which text would you teach? (@shanedenson.bsky.social I'm sure you have a great suggestion but no obligation)
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
friends. I'm not sure there's time in my class next semester BUT: if you were to teach a piece/book by Vílem Flusser in a media theories grad class, which text would you teach? (@shanedenson.bsky.social I'm sure you have a great suggestion but no obligation)
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“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
trib.al/CUazMCQ
trib.al/CUazMCQ
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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hell yeah
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
hell yeah
Adapting a pedagogical approach to making everyone illiterate and completely dependent on commercial services
The most infuriating thing I've read lately is the response by Anthology to "AI agents" recognizing they're a huge problem for education then pivoting to "blocking AI in the classroom is extremely difficult, and institutions will see best results by adapting their pedagogical approach to the AI era"
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Adapting a pedagogical approach to making everyone illiterate and completely dependent on commercial services
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The most infuriating thing I've read lately is the response by Anthology to "AI agents" recognizing they're a huge problem for education then pivoting to "blocking AI in the classroom is extremely difficult, and institutions will see best results by adapting their pedagogical approach to the AI era"
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The most infuriating thing I've read lately is the response by Anthology to "AI agents" recognizing they're a huge problem for education then pivoting to "blocking AI in the classroom is extremely difficult, and institutions will see best results by adapting their pedagogical approach to the AI era"
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"And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it and be like, ‘You made me fail. Why did you do this?’ And it will talk back to me."
Couldn't have happened to a nicer influencer.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer influencer.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it and be like, ‘You made me fail. Why did you do this?’ And it will talk back to me."
Couldn't have happened to a nicer influencer.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer influencer.
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