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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Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social
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Tracking, with Stefanie Felsberger | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social
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as a society we're dealing with an AGI fraud being foisted upon us. ML and LLMs are tools that will have ideal use cases, but what's being sold is a wholesale reshaping of society, the economy, and the environment in the service of a small cadre of billionaires. that's what people are reacting to
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
as a society we're dealing with an AGI fraud being foisted upon us. ML and LLMs are tools that will have ideal use cases, but what's being sold is a wholesale reshaping of society, the economy, and the environment in the service of a small cadre of billionaires. that's what people are reacting to
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This company designs its products to sycophantic. It knows it is doing this. It knows why it is doing this. The design principles involved are well-known in HCI. OpenAI, quite literally, is a monstrosity.
“OpenAI’s court filing argued that the harms in this case were at least partly caused by Raine’s ‘failure to heed warnings, obtain help, or otherwise exercise reasonable care,’ as well as the ‘failure of others to respond to his obvious signs of distress.’”
OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This company designs its products to sycophantic. It knows it is doing this. It knows why it is doing this. The design principles involved are well-known in HCI. OpenAI, quite literally, is a monstrosity.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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Is OpenAI a turkey because this headline is a stonecold murder
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Is OpenAI a turkey because this headline is a stonecold murder
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When bubbles burst it’s not just a loss of market cap, it results in real pain & harm to ordinary people. And the US govt structures that used to try to blunt the troughs (poorly but still) are simply not functioning now.
Anyway, look out for each other, cause no one else is gonna look out for us.
Anyway, look out for each other, cause no one else is gonna look out for us.
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When bubbles burst it’s not just a loss of market cap, it results in real pain & harm to ordinary people. And the US govt structures that used to try to blunt the troughs (poorly but still) are simply not functioning now.
Anyway, look out for each other, cause no one else is gonna look out for us.
Anyway, look out for each other, cause no one else is gonna look out for us.
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🎙️ Episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast is LIVE! In it, I speak with @katharinehayhoe.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social about their paths to becoming climate communicators and the significance of the outcome of the COP30 round of the climate negotiations. cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎙️ Episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast is LIVE! In it, I speak with @katharinehayhoe.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social about their paths to becoming climate communicators and the significance of the outcome of the COP30 round of the climate negotiations. cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
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i really appreciate this episode—thank you both!!
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
i really appreciate this episode—thank you both!!
Wow!
Amazing news!!!
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wow!
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This is 🔥🔥🔥
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is 🔥🔥🔥
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I had such a great time recording this! Thank you, Mél!
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
Tracking, with Stefanie Felsberger | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
shows.acast.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I had such a great time recording this! Thank you, Mél!
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
Tracking, with Stefanie Felsberger | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
shows.acast.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Please listen to this amazing episode with Stefanie Felsberger @flsbrgr.bsky.social
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
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"Renewed greenwashing."
"Carney's government says it's paring back parts of Canada's anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their 'good-faith efforts' to protect the environment are going unadvertised."
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Media
"Carney's government says it's paring back parts of Canada's anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their 'good-faith efforts' to protect the environment are going unadvertised."
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Media
Canada says anti-greenwashing rules silence industry
Carney is moving to nix some of Canada's rules that restrict how oil and gas companies and other industries advertise environmental claims.
thenarwhal.ca
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"Renewed greenwashing."
"Carney's government says it's paring back parts of Canada's anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their 'good-faith efforts' to protect the environment are going unadvertised."
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Media
"Carney's government says it's paring back parts of Canada's anti-greenwashing law after hearing from fossil fuel companies and other groups that their 'good-faith efforts' to protect the environment are going unadvertised."
#Canada #FossilFuels #Climate #Media
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It took some time, but now my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›» is finally out in open access, as part of the latest issue of «Photography & Culture» www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Images from Images Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’
AI image generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E or Stable Diffusion are able to perfectly simulate the appearance of photographic images, but they are no longer part of the history of optical media....
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It took some time, but now my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›» is finally out in open access, as part of the latest issue of «Photography & Culture» www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data?
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
(Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)
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An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
An absolutely shocking letter from the House Committee on Education and Workforce to Berkeley, demanding, among other things, info on internal processes and syllabi.
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"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
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Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster - Annie Palmer got the WARN records & details… www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/a...
Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster
Nearly 40% of the roughly 4,700 positions Amazon eliminated across Washington, New York, New Jersey and California were engineering jobs.
www.cnbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster - Annie Palmer got the WARN records & details… www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/a...
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“Canada is facing near-term threats to its economic competitiveness and grappling with declining productivity and prosperity, so waiting years for AI investments to create value isn’t realistic in this environment – in fact, it’s downright risky.”
Yet Another Study Shows That Most Companies Aren't Making Any Money Off AI
Further proof has arrived that the ROI on AI is essentially non-existent.
gizmodo.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Canada is facing near-term threats to its economic competitiveness and grappling with declining productivity and prosperity, so waiting years for AI investments to create value isn’t realistic in this environment – in fact, it’s downright risky.”