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Saide Mobayed
@saidezork.bsky.social
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Qualitative sociologist interested in how data are configured across scales.
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mollytaft.com
how much energy does your ChatGPT search really use? i wrote about the trials and tribulations of putting a number on AI emissions, & how some of the most powerful companies in the world could clear it up for us — but they're staying silent. feat a peek at new research from @sashamtl.bsky.social !
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
www.wired.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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rayhoang.bsky.social
I guess I can talk about AI, or more specifically, LLM (because 95% of them are LLMs). I do want to introduce you to the whole world of "open source LLM". It's where people release their LLM models in the internet, and everyone else can do whatever they want /1
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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melhogan.bsky.social
What we now call “AI” — particularly generative AI — is inseparable from the cloud infrastructure and corporate power structures that serve and own it. "AI" is less about technology in the abstract, and more about a political economy dominated by cos like Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
_ 12 problems with Big AI _

a thread 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online!

datasociety.net/events/chall...
Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power
“I think it’s very important to maintain that refusal is an option.” – Emily M. Bender “AI is not inevitable. AI – as it is constructed right now – is, I think, fundamentally anti-democratic.” – Alex ...
datasociety.net
June 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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icruxen.bsky.social
Amazing to see our project, #DataAgainstFeminicide, receive an Honorary Mention for the European Commission's 2025 S+T+ARTS Prize, recognizing innovation in tech + society + arts @ladelentes.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social: starts-prize.aec.at/en/data-agai...
Data Against Feminicide: AI tools, transnational community, and data activism
Data Against Feminicide is a feminist participatory action research and technology design project. We collaborate with data activists, artists, nonprofits, communities, governments, and journalists wh...
starts-prize.aec.at
June 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
"Mr. Gray was the chief architect of the firm’s race to buy foreclosed homes in the wake of the financial crisis. Blackstone became the largest owner of single-family homes in the United States for many years. It sold those homes for a profit of more than $7 billion."

Same ghouls, different bubble.
Wall St. Is All In on A.I. Data Centers. But Are They the Next Bubble?
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
A list of everything I’ve written/published: (enviro/tech/AI/planet/necropolitics/etc)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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...
docs.google.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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alondra.bsky.social
Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...
May 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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tamigraph.bsky.social
This data center organizing guide from @kairosfellows.bsky.social and @mediajustice.bsky.social is so f’ing good: concise, informative, and beautifully designed. Print it out, make a zine, etc www.kairosfellows.org/fightdatacen...
Organizer guide to fighting data centers — Kairos Fellowship
www.kairosfellows.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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darktimesacademy.bsky.social
8 weeks. 8 amazing speakers. 1 online course.

Get ready to Fight the Broligarchy with:
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@alinasu33.bsky.social
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
@hypervisible.bsky.social
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@jathansadowski.com
@parismarx.com
@ubiquity75.xyz

Register at fightingthebroligarc...
April 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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tamigraph.bsky.social
At the top of Earth Week, we are launching this series of essays for @datasociety.bsky.social Points, The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction with contributions from @xrw.bsky.social, @zgtcooper.bsky.social, Jen Liu, and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, with an intro by me
The Cloud is Dead
In this series, we explore how communities have addressed the unequal power dynamics between technology production and deployment, and how tech impacts people and the environment.
datasociety.net
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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nannathylstrup.bsky.social
1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Mar 24
Who decides which data disappears – and what does that mean for democracy?

NANNA THYLSTRUP (nannathylstrup.bsky.social) and KATIE MCKINNON explore how political changes in digital infrastructures reshape access to knowledge and democracy in the U.S. and beyond.

verfassungsblog.de/the-politics...
Quote from our published article by the authors Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Katie MacKinnon: “The ability to reconfigure digital infrastructure – whether through term removals, restriction of access, or wholesale elimination of databases – constitutes a significant mechanism of control."
March 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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esqueer.net
Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American.

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March 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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karengregory.bsky.social
Should also say that the CAHSS Data & Digital Research Theme is happy to sponsor this event:

Send CFPs:

“Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities”
blogs.ed.ac.uk/future_of_mo...

cc @stis-uoe.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Please share.
Conference: “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” – Thinking the Future of Money in the Humanities
blogs.ed.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
Amazing resource - thank you!!!!
rcmeg.bsky.social Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · Feb 4
This!

And if folks are interested in thinking about what GenAI refusal looks like given *waves hand at everything surrounding us,* we curated a set of resources you might find useful.
March 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
Lets take a break and look at this beautiful piece of art though.
Tesla stock taking a nose dive from $262.67 at previous close to $222.15 at the end of today.
March 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.
Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn
Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
www.ft.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
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HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the 'Digital Gateway to Europe'
J Monstadt, K Saltzman - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
HOW DATA CENTERS HAVE COME TO MATTER: Governing the Spatial and Environmental Footprint of the ‘Digital Gateway to Europe’
Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
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Data Ecofeminism
ANA VALDIVIA

arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11086
arxiv.org
February 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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jathansadowski.com
I had a great conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social for the Tech Policy Press podcast about my new book and how the political economy of tech capital + state power operates in the Trump imperium. www.techpolicy.press/the-dangerou...
The Dangerous Combination of Technology and Capitalism | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Jathan Sadowski, author of The Mechanic and the Luddite: a Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism.
www.techpolicy.press
February 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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katecrawford.bsky.social
This week the first provisions of the AI Act take effect. Prohibited AI systems include: emotion recognition in schools & work (a victory there), social rating systems, predictive policing for individuals & real-time facial recognition in public spaces. www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
First measures of European AI Act regulation take effect
One part of the European text comes into force on February 2, just a few days before the Summit for Action on AI in Paris, but its full implementation will be gradual and could be contested.
www.lemonde.fr
February 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
“Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil sees a key advantage in developing power plants for AI data centers as tech companies race to secure energy sources for the vast amounts of electricity required to run the technology.”

fortune.com/2025/02/01/e...
Exxon's CEO touted this 'huge advantage' in building power plants for AI data centers
"Our view is we'll bring this on faster than anybody else in the industry, and we'll certainly bring it on faster than any other opportunities for decarbonization."
fortune.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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beccalew.bsky.social
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM