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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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies
These are very troubling times
These are very troubling times
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies
These are very troubling times
These are very troubling times
PSA: if you’re somehow not burnt out, you should probably know that almost everyone else is
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
PSA: if you’re somehow not burnt out, you should probably know that almost everyone else is
Yea, I’ve been thinking about this thread all day….
This is a pretty unnerving phenomenon that many of us are seeing.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yea, I’ve been thinking about this thread all day….
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
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In the small industrial city of Trois-Rivières, thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users.
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic
Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users
thelogic.co
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In the small industrial city of Trois-Rivières, thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users.
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.
thelogic.co/news/the-big...
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Hey Mel! FYI: 'We're not fooled': No Desert Data Center's fight against Project Blue is a common one across North America - Halifax Examiner share.google/oNwKERIKyx15...
'We're not fooled': No Desert Data Center's fight against Project Blue is a common one across North America - Halifax Examiner
An interview with a member of a coalition fighting to stop a data centre in Tucson, Arizona.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hey Mel! FYI: 'We're not fooled': No Desert Data Center's fight against Project Blue is a common one across North America - Halifax Examiner share.google/oNwKERIKyx15...
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If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
this —>
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this —>
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“Futures aren’t like stocks, where trading is spread across a number of exchanges... The U.S. futures market is highly concentrated at CME. The company, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange… handles the lion’s share of volume in…interest-rate and stock-index contracts.”
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Futures aren’t like stocks, where trading is spread across a number of exchanges... The U.S. futures market is highly concentrated at CME. The company, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange… handles the lion’s share of volume in…interest-rate and stock-index contracts.”
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Here it is with the byline and alt text
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here it is with the byline and alt text
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Edtech companies and their venture capital investors are not ignorant about regulatory and ethical regimes - they are *playing* them as a "growth lever" to conduct student surveillance and data extraction techfundingnews.com/expert-talk-...
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Edtech companies and their venture capital investors are not ignorant about regulatory and ethical regimes - they are *playing* them as a "growth lever" to conduct student surveillance and data extraction techfundingnews.com/expert-talk-...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
If AI is a bubble, how will it pop?
pca.st
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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ARTICLE | The Cloud Isn't Weightless
'Digital activities account for 40% of the CO₂ emissions we can emit without triggering global warming’ — a reminder that online life has an offline cost.
Words by Teodor Georgiev
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
Full article: bit.ly/4pul1lw
'Digital activities account for 40% of the CO₂ emissions we can emit without triggering global warming’ — a reminder that online life has an offline cost.
Words by Teodor Georgiev
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
Full article: bit.ly/4pul1lw
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
ARTICLE | The Cloud Isn't Weightless
'Digital activities account for 40% of the CO₂ emissions we can emit without triggering global warming’ — a reminder that online life has an offline cost.
Words by Teodor Georgiev
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
Full article: bit.ly/4pul1lw
'Digital activities account for 40% of the CO₂ emissions we can emit without triggering global warming’ — a reminder that online life has an offline cost.
Words by Teodor Georgiev
@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
Full article: bit.ly/4pul1lw
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Seems legit
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Seems legit
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This is also an AI/Data centers deal - ie a gift to big tech. The terms include:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...
water, energy and minerals colonialism, big tech oligarchy etc
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...
water, energy and minerals colonialism, big tech oligarchy etc
Carney signs major energy agreement with Alberta, laying out conditions for new oil pipeline
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a major new energy co-operation agreement on Thursday, outlining the conditions that need to be met for a new oil pipeline to the P...
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is also an AI/Data centers deal - ie a gift to big tech. The terms include:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...
water, energy and minerals colonialism, big tech oligarchy etc
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...
water, energy and minerals colonialism, big tech oligarchy etc
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1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
1/ Mark Carney has betrayed all of us by making a pipeline pact with Danielle Smith. A real nation-building project would expand the renewable energy of the future while creating thousands of jobs - powerlines not pipelines.
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…