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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
@melhogan.bsky.social
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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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Got my hard copy. Very beautiful catalog.

www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitio...
https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog cover https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog partial toc https://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/exhibitions/city-in-the-cloud/ art catalog cover page for my piece “stupid, but costly”
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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haha
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Students in this class attempted to be like generative AI and produced this:
September 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'” Sep 17, 2025 10:30 AM in Toronto time
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Big Data Ecologies (2018) ephemerajournal.org/sites/defaul...
And, as Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012) remind us, ‘decolonization is not a metaphor’ (3), and as such, data centers play a hand at furthering settler futurity in at least two ways: they stake a claim to land and its proximity to water, and they further locate humanity outside of human bodies, and into machines. How different would our sense of progress be if we accounted for the material and architectural creep of settler technological imaginaries?
August 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The Nexus Centre Presents:

A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'”

Sep 17, 2025 08:30 AM (in Edmonton)

Angela Carter, Keif Godbout-Kinney, Mél Hogan, and Anne Pasek respond.

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Nexus Centre Presents: A Roundtable with Dr. Josh Lepawsky on "Mapping the Geographical Imaginations of the 'Tech Right'” Date & Time Sep 17, 2025 08:30 AM in Dr .Lepawsky (Geography) asks whether the 'Tech Right' are evil geniuses in this one-hour hybrid roundtable discussion. Angela Carter (CRC, Political Science), Keif Godbout-Kinney (PhD Candidate, Sociology), Mél Hogan (Queen's University), and Anne Pasek (CRC, Trent University) respond.
August 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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frugalai.org

"doing more with less" .... but more of what? for what? I just don't get what all the AI hype is for! I don't!
screenshot of frugal AI charts showing the environmental impacts of AI in terms of carbon footprint
July 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Lovely team of collaborators on this new SSHRC insight grant: Land, Sea, Sky: Digital Infrastructure and Transition in Northern Landscapes and Communities
July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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cover slide for presentation featuring zuck
July 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Loving this book, www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...
“I think that it’s fairly likely that it will not take too long of a time for the entire surface of the Earth to become covered with data centers and power stations.”
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Anyone else getting caught in a loop trying to delete instagram? It simply won't let me... just sends me back to a page to deactivate it temporarily.... wtf
July 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It’s fun that men are like this.
June 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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pca.st/episode/2747...
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Curious how people define “friendship”?

— asking for a reflection paper that I’ll reveal in a bit…
June 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I'm (slightly) slowing down my podcast production for the summer, but please subscribe so you don't miss these conversations (plus a real treat later in this summer!)

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Control, with Paul Schütze Episode : 65 Jul 14th 2025 Scheduled Water, with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan G... Episode : 64 Jun 16th 2025 Scheduled
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you haven’t lived through (now yearly) fire season, you probably can’t imagine the toll on your mental (and physical) health — it’s hell.
11/10 health watch for fire in calgary Alberta
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The "City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground" exhibition will be held at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in der Pinakothek der Moderne from October 16, 2025, to March 8, 2026.
The image is an exhibition poster for "City in the Cloud: Data on the Ground", which runs from October 16, 2025, to March 8, 2026. It's an exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in der Pinakothek der Moderne.
June 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The question we ask in this roundtable is: How will AI impact the future of scholarly publishing?
List of speakers
June 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I did a session for faculty & admins at Bishop's University's "AI Day" offering 12 critiques of "Big AI" for discussion.

I focused on the political economy of AI -- inspired by Dr. Abeba Birhane's and Ali Alkhatib's framing(s) of the conversation -- i.e. the political over the technical.
Slides from talk at Bishop's showing title - 12 problems with Big AI - and quote and preamble
May 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Please enjoy:
pca.st/8mu29c12

I loved this conversation so much.
May 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Coming out soon: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/
cover banner for AI and the Environment episode of Machine Ethics podcast
May 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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imgur.com/gallery/r9Px...
Screen grab of clip showing water issues from living close to a data center
May 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Amazing lecture by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, wow

youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...

And so cool to get a shout out —

if anyone wants to read our preppers piece: www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sara...

@ubiquity75.xyz
Screen grab of video lecture slide of Dr Benjamin
May 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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ok time to celebrate that the U.S. won’t as easily invade us
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM