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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

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Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot. 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net
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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com

Gobsmacked at the online responses to this that are so internet-pilled they call for a third-party search engine for schools or something. Listen: Your K-12 school does not really require Chromebooks, Google Classroom courseware, Gdocs or Gmail—or even search. Just use books a…

nytimes.com
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  • Starting early 2027, Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will all be off by default for school-managed K-12 student accounts until admins opt in.
  • Districts that block Google's AI tools entirely will also lose student access to Search, with students shown a message that the service is unavailable.
  • Schools that opt in choose between a consumer-style Search with AI Overviews and AI chat or a Guided Learning mode powered by Gemini.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation on a scale unpreceden…

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom theguardian.com
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@bachynski.bsky.social

“When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. “I haven’t really thought that through,” she said.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social

The environmental damage is well documented at this point. I think the status of data centers as focal points of economic damage merits a little more expansion: www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
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  • WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
  • Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
  • Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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“Doctorow points out that so much money is going into AI and data centres that the companies involved simply can’t make a profit, ever. No matter how many high-salary jobs AI replaces, it won’t bring in enough to cover the investment in AI, let alone make a profit.”

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If you’re in Regina at this time, consider coming to my talk “Data Refineries” about AI data centres in Canada. Open to all and free.

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the amount of time and energy wasted on all things ai

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so the ai sales pitch logic is that people are supposed to use ai but also pretend not to and then be ashamed of the way they used it if caught

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the thing is i don’t hate people who use ai or bitcoin etc lol what..why would anyone make a list like this i just can’t be convinced that these things (ai etc) have redeemable qualities

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feels like last night americans voted against AI

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has anyone compared gen ai to hypnotism specifically? i was thinking how some folks can and some can’t be hypothesized. and while the mechanism of hypnosis is real, the tap dancing and alien speak that comes from being under is made up

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Being 'down' reminds us all that ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are commercial services that make --or not-- these LLMs bots available. This is why people are critical of the political economy, ownership models, and a reliance on -- often in addition to other critiques.

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Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres “But the data centre boom is zeroing in on one province: Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity.”

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going to work tomorrow like there’s no creeping fascism, no impending financial crash, no shards of pandemic, no climate emergency, no ai shit storm…

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