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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

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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 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net 📷 https://pixelfed.social/melhogan

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · May 24

A list of everything I’ve written/published: (enviro/tech/AI/planet/necropolitics/etc)

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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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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

www.heliotropejournal.net

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 9h

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Future Networks Talks: Nick Couldry

Come join us for a keynote address by Nick Couldry titled ""The Space Of The World: How Can We Rebuild It?"

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10h

Behind on payments for her mobile home, Lynn White was out of options. With no money for a lawyer to appeal an eviction notice, she consulted ChatGPT.

“It was like having God up there responding to my questions,” White says.

These people ditched lawyers for ChatGPT in court

From pickleball disputes to eviction cases, litigants are using ChatGPT to fight their court battles — and they’re starting to win.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 22h

Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance

10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

California Data Centers in Context: Histories, Impacts, Policies with Khari Johnson, Masheika Allgood, and Nicole Merino Tsui. Moderated by Cecilia Marrinan and Tamara Kneese. October 9, 12-1:30 pm. Registration link for Zoom is in the post

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 22h

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 1d

You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”"

www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/robi...

Robin Williams' daughter issues desperate plea to fans after receiving 'disgusting' AI videos of her dad

Zelda Williams described it as 'slop puppeteering' her late father

www.uniladtech.com

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 1d

"Zelda went on to say: “And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future’. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 1d

"“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”"

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 2d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

futurism.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI may have found an infinite money glitch. AMD stock is up 25% after OpenAI pledged to spend billions it doesn’t yet have on AMD chips over five years plus OpenAI gets 10% of AMD if it follows through.

Altogether, OpenAI has now promised $1T in purchases in deals with AMD, Nvidia, and Oracle.

AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker

OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in 2026.

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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 2d

out now in @societyandspace.bsky.social, a volume of shorter interventions on new (and renewed) forms of reactionary environmentalisms around the world. my contribution below.

Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Friends, sharing a new collection on “Everyday and Emergent Ecofascisms” – edited with Zeynep Oguz for @societyandspace.bsky.social – that we hope folks find useful in These Times. Together, we “tend to the mundane ways ecofascist tenets organize the everyday...

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758251374876

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent!

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 2d

HELIOTROPE CfP: "We invite a wide range of submissions from anyone who studies topics at the intersection of culture, media, technology, and the environment. We consider “the environment” to be everything – from the molecular to outer space — i.e. not just the wilderness!"

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

www.heliotropejournal.net

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

www.heliotropejournal.net

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

This time last week I shared this call for 3 small AI-related freelance gigs to do specialist literature searches on AI and worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety. The call's open till Friday this week www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

Freelance Researchers: Safe Adoption of AI — Careful Industries

We are looking for freelance researchers to conduct literature searches on the impacts of AI on worker safety, infrastructural safety, and environmental safety.

www.careful.industries

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, a large quantity of Pfas are used to produce the semiconductors housed in datacenters, which will increase pollution around supporting manufacturing plants.”

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Meanwhile, Pfas used in the equipment housed in the centers must be disposed of, which is difficult because the chemicals cannot be fully destroyed…

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

“Environmental advocates say the datacenters increase Pfas pollution directly and indirectly. The chemicals are needed in the centers’ operations – such as its cooling equipment – which almost certainly leads to some on-site pollution….

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka.bsky.social · 5d

A technology that should not exist.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

I’m having a hard time understanding how offering people the option of making deepfakes of each other is attractive or sustainable, but there’s also a racialized and gendered piece of this that’s mostly ignored. Sam Altman is at no risk for the proliferation of fake videos depicting him doing crime.

I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop

AI Altmans as far as the eye can see.

www.theverge.com

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