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.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
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“Brad Paisley, a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer and songwriter, urged his followers to sign a petition to stop the construction of a 69,000-square-foot data center that would be 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo, which he called “an absolute nightmare scenario”
The petition, created by the zoo’s communications team, has 331,824 signatures and 126,599 shares.
US tech stocks sink as volatility flares up on Wall Street ft.trib.al/s1uX3vV
Indeed this fellow has filed a defamation suit against Google. It is important to note that the suit has been filed in Ontario, Canada, and not in the United States. I suspect he has a rather better chance up north than he would here.
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What would our current digital infrastructure look like if heat and materiality were central to defining the concept of “information?” How different would/could it be?
Financial Times
CBC IDEAS
Literature Versus the AI Industry
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“Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas. This requires deep
commitment to the mission of universities, our academic values, our scientific
integrity, and our critical scholarship …”
our baby boy Kendall finally got himself a company to run
John Scalzi
who wants to bet on which tech company she'll end up at?
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation