Lisa Melonçon
@meloncon.bsky.social
Tech Comm. Health comm. UX. Workplace writing. RHM. Cajun. Sports fanatic. Dr. Martens wearer. She/Her. Posts my own. http://tek-ritr.com
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
As always, Tressie speaks truth. Same over here. Totally same.
My first wind is still solid as a steel beam. But the second wind? It done blown away, never to be seen again.
Nine, 10 o’clock, I’m waiting for the second wind AND IT DOES NOT ARRIVE.
Nine, 10 o’clock, I’m waiting for the second wind AND IT DOES NOT ARRIVE.
January 7, 2026 at 12:05 AM
As always, Tressie speaks truth. Same over here. Totally same.
Wishing you for 2026: tek-ritr.com/wishing-you-...
Wishing you…2026 – Lisa Melonçon
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January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Wishing you for 2026: tek-ritr.com/wishing-you-...
When academic authors insist on using an abbreviation that no one but them ever uses....makes me want to just not read the damn thing. Sadly, I have to copy edit it, but OMG, quick making up shit for the sake of it making up shit.
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
When academic authors insist on using an abbreviation that no one but them ever uses....makes me want to just not read the damn thing. Sadly, I have to copy edit it, but OMG, quick making up shit for the sake of it making up shit.
Same. Totally same.
Not a single thing in that song is irony. Which, perhaps, is meta ironic? I don't know. I'm still raging after 30 years.
December 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Same. Totally same.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a miracle. This man has spent years doing the diplomatic equivalent of somersaults on a tightrope while his country remains under siege. I don't believe in the Great Man Theory, but he's about as close as it gets.
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a miracle. This man has spent years doing the diplomatic equivalent of somersaults on a tightrope while his country remains under siege. I don't believe in the Great Man Theory, but he's about as close as it gets.
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What if...the more time you spend online consuming information, the less actually useful information you have? I believe 2025 will be remembered as the tipping point: the saturation of AI slop, the enshittification of search, the algorithms designed to feed your biases, the partisan-outrage complex.
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What if...the more time you spend online consuming information, the less actually useful information you have? I believe 2025 will be remembered as the tipping point: the saturation of AI slop, the enshittification of search, the algorithms designed to feed your biases, the partisan-outrage complex.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hello. I’ve been doing regularish webposts that collect all the tennis news into a fun and tidy format for you to read at your leisure. If that is a service that would be useful to you, subscribe or just bookmark to read. It’s free and always will be. See you in the 2 6.
forty-deuce.ghost.io
forty-deuce.ghost.io
This is me as well, and I often have a personal air purifier with me too.
It’s wild we’re still talking about masks. I still mask up in grocery stores, elevators, public bathrooms, and public transit cuz I don’t like being sick and I don’t want to get my kid sick and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than not liking being sick. It’s weird anyone would question that.
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is me as well, and I often have a personal air purifier with me too.
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Even worse than the confidence of mediocre white men is the confidence of filthy rich white men who couldn’t hit mediocre on even their finest day.
December 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Even worse than the confidence of mediocre white men is the confidence of filthy rich white men who couldn’t hit mediocre on even their finest day.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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We can tame the misery machines.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We can tame the misery machines.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
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I don’t care.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I don’t care.
Ding. Ding. We have a winner. It's really a sad testament to this moment in knowledge production that folks have to say this out loud and also explain what it means. Sigh.
being conversant in the scholarly discussions within a discipline or a field is different from reading random summaries
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ding. Ding. We have a winner. It's really a sad testament to this moment in knowledge production that folks have to say this out loud and also explain what it means. Sigh.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
As usual, Miriam is on it! and right! And I'm feeling so freakin' smug in the fact, I kind of predicted this exact thing over two years ago in my pleading with usually smart folks in my field to just stop it with their AI inevitability and integration. Hmmm guess I'm not so out of touch after all.
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As usual, Miriam is on it! and right! And I'm feeling so freakin' smug in the fact, I kind of predicted this exact thing over two years ago in my pleading with usually smart folks in my field to just stop it with their AI inevitability and integration. Hmmm guess I'm not so out of touch after all.
You know what needs to go viral. Someone like Morgan Freeman reading the constitution and then facilitating a Q&A to have it explained in even simpler terms. Same with key laws. Like OMG I cannot even with how little people actually know or understand. Big sigh.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You know what needs to go viral. Someone like Morgan Freeman reading the constitution and then facilitating a Q&A to have it explained in even simpler terms. Same with key laws. Like OMG I cannot even with how little people actually know or understand. Big sigh.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
OMGoodness yes. And I am still gobsmacked at how many smart folks say this very thing or similar things like trying to wrap it up in "literacy." HOLD. THE. LINE.
Watching so many MLIS programs essentially say "well, a lot of people are using it so we have to teach prompting" feels like watching a medical school say "a lot of people are anti-vax now so we have to teach alternatives to vaccines." This is a time for experts to hold the line.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
OMGoodness yes. And I am still gobsmacked at how many smart folks say this very thing or similar things like trying to wrap it up in "literacy." HOLD. THE. LINE.
So many institutions are making this decision without full faculty involvement and without actually reading the growing body of research about the effects of these things on learning. There's such a great irony there.
I'm really disappointed to learn, via the minutes of the latest Faculty Senate meeting, that my university is planning to purchase an enterprise-level license for some "AI" model. I can think of so many things that money would be better spent on that would actually serve our students' learning.
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
So many institutions are making this decision without full faculty involvement and without actually reading the growing body of research about the effects of these things on learning. There's such a great irony there.