Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
Canadian critical media studies scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
📷 pixelfed.social/melhogan
- Call for Contribution: Uneven and Contested Geographies of Data Centres www.geographie.nat.fau.de/en/ng-geogra...
- Data centers are sneaky horrible neighbours napaneebeaver.ca/napanees-zon...
- weaves in and out of ai fever dream and explaining corporate ai simply podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
- I listened to this to stay open minded about the potential of AI but... two quick takeaways: pocketcasts.com/podcast/wher...
- 1 - engineers are really not always the best suited people to understand and comment on the politics, political economy or social impacts of data centers or AI
- 2 - protein folding is the only example of so-called societal benefit of AI that these folks ever refer to and to me it sounds like ploughing an entire planet to grow one potato
- Delightful.
