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Jérôme Melançon

@lethejerome.bsky.social

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Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain (philosophy, poésie, sciences sociales) & writer (same). Translator. Prof @ University of Regina. Looking for new forms and contents. Livres : En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · Nov 13

Since we're all (re-)connecting, a bit of an introduction perhaps?

I practice political phenomenology, study the histories that tie into that field, and esp Merleau-Ponty. Here's abook based on my dissertation; I also transcribed and edited his radio interviews.
www.metispresses.ch/en/la-politi...

MētisPresses - La politique dans l’adversité: Merleau-Ponty aux marges de la philosophie

www.metispresses.ch

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 11h

most of translation is just changing "-ed" to "-ing" and then changing "-ing" back to "-ed" as many times as it takes until it stops bothering you

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

"AI threatens multiple forms of failure: model collapse, ecological collapse, and cognitive collapse. The current approach to AI cannot sustain itself indefinitely. The question becomes not whether current AI slop economies will destroy themselves, but when."

Matthieu Dugal @matthieudugal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Si t'as une analyse à lire sur l'accélération de déliquescence du contenu produit par les IA génératives laissées à elles-mêmes qui monopolisent monstrueusement ressources cognitives et matérielles, il faut lire la grande chercheure @katecrawford.bsky.social. Brillant. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 2d

A thread worth reading in full

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 2d

Make all universities public and fully funded.

Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever AI this will be will STILL not understand the text it generates and will STILL make it up as we go along.

This is tech competing with universities, undermining our "product" by making it a product, stealing our research, and extracting it until there can be no new knowledge.

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 2d

Did an AI professor write this?

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 3d

Then it has no right to exist

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 4d

will just repeat that if you straight up replaced the current Canada Council grants system with this it would fund about 1000 more artists per year for the same amount of money and immeasurably greater stability

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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À Gauche 🍉 @agauche.bsky.social · 6d

Imaginez un article attendri sur des nazis qui rêvent de s’installer dans les maisons de Juifs en plein génocide. C’est exactement ce que La Presse et Isabelle Hachey viennent de publier, mais à Gaza.
Présenter comme ordinaires ce nettoyage ethnique, c’est donner une humanité à un projet génocidaire

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7d

3 Oct 2025 -- CBS, long known as the Tiffany Network for its new excellence, is bringing in anti-trans lesbian Bari Weiss as head. Weiss resigned from NYT, citing its “illiberal environment, to start the Free Press, which frequently features transphobic pieces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Who is Bari Weiss, the right-wing anti-trans queer woman being given the keys to CBS News?

She’s about to control the editorial direction of the once-celebrated network's news.

www.advocate.com

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 8d

Ok but you can't just leave the rest of us hanging at this end of this thread like this

Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 9d

So I'm a bit envious yes

Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 9d

To be entirely honest, this book did to spoken language what I had hoped to do with my last book - but better.

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 9d

newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : Madame full of shit, by Catherine Paquet
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jero...

Jérôme Melançon : Madame full of shit, by Catherine Paquet

Madame full of shit , Catherine Paquet Hurlantes, 2023 As you open Catherine Paquet’s debut collection, knowing that “Madame full of...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. 🙃

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 9d

Le Canada et Israël mènent des génocides. Il faut dire le mot qui unit ces violences et déshumanisations pour l'appropriation du territoire.

Francopresse.ca @francopresse.ca · 10d

Génocide : dire le mot #FrCan #Francophonie #MédiasFrancos

Génocide : dire le mot

FRANCOPRESSE – En décembre 2015, la Commission de vérité et réconciliation publiait le sommaire de son rapport final et qualifiait le système des pensionnats autochtones de génocide culturel.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11d

i wouldn't call myself an expert on capitalism or anything but this does indeed seem like something of a problem

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...

www.cnn.com

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 10d

So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC.

This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 10d

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters."

In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.

That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 10d

I have a genuine legal question- do you think there is a colorable claim for an author to go after an individual who uses a LLM to make a piece of writing that was trained without their permission on their work? Clearly there is for the LLM but what about for the users?

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 11d

This is quite a fall. Wow. Also reminds me I have a few of these to review - not to mention my own coming out in French next week!

Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com · 11d

Have a few of these titles on order (Joseph Dandurand, Randy Lundy) and one to pick up: if: prey, then: huntress by @christinashah.bsky.social. Congratulations!

www.cbc.ca/books/34-wor...

34 works of Canadian poetry coming out in fall 2025 | CBC Books

Here are the Canadian poetry collections we are excited about this fall!

www.cbc.ca

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 11d

Baldwin: A change, real change is brought about when the people make a change. The poet or the revolutionary can articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it nothing can happen. When the people have taken the necessity, when the movement starts moving, then the world moves.

James Baldwin smokes as he listens to a question from the audience at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Feb. 16, 1973. (Regis Bossu/Stars and Stripes)

Image comes from: https://www.stripes.com/history/1973-02-27/viewpoint:-james-baldwin-1892518.html

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