Jérôme Melançon
@lethejerome.bsky.social
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
MētisPresses - La politique dans l’adversité: Merleau-Ponty aux marges de la philosophie
www.metispresses.ch
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...
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...
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“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
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‘After two long years during which use of the word “ceasefire” was enough to put you at risk of losing your livelihood, “ceasefire” has become something we are expected to be grateful for, now that “ceasefire” means continued genocide.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Selma Dabbagh | Rebranding Genocide
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
‘After two long years during which use of the word “ceasefire” was enough to put you at risk of losing your livelihood, “ceasefire” has become something we are expected to be grateful for, now that “ceasefire” means continued genocide.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Thread on the impossibility of guardrails on LLMs: they would require cognition (which LLMs do NOT have) and they go against the function for whixh LLMs were designed.
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thread on the impossibility of guardrails on LLMs: they would require cognition (which LLMs do NOT have) and they go against the function for whixh LLMs were designed.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
And this is how I find out?
Ur gay
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And this is how I find out?
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
This is marvelous. I can't stop staring at it. The incessant non-communication we find ourselves in.
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is marvelous. I can't stop staring at it. The incessant non-communication we find ourselves in.
AI is not a tool, and is barely a product. It's a speculation capture apparatus.
Will Open AI take down its sponsors? OpenAI’s data centre partners will amass almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself. SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at
OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions
Cloud companies and developers rely on lossmaking start-up to repay huge loans
www.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
AI is not a tool, and is barely a product. It's a speculation capture apparatus.
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Dans la bande de Gaza, «le génocide se poursuit sans relâche» malgré la trêve, dénonce Amnesty International www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Dans la bande de Gaza, « le génocide se poursuit sans relâche » malgré la trêve, dénonce Amnesty International
Dans un rapport publié jeudi, l’ONG met en garde contre « l’illusion d’un retour à la normale » depuis l’entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu, le 10 octobre, évoquant notamment les restrictions d’entrée...
www.lemonde.fr
November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Dans la bande de Gaza, «le génocide se poursuit sans relâche» malgré la trêve, dénonce Amnesty International www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Wow. Amazing lawyer brain.
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Wow. Amazing lawyer brain.
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A very, very important peer-reviewed empirical study published in the academic journal Pediatrics shows that hormone treatment of young trans people decreases suicidality very significantly.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
Doubtless it will be ignored by Simonoff et al, who are not even measuring this in the “Pathways” study.
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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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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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Tant qu'on ne reviendra pas à la base de la base sur les LLM à savoir: Outil fasciste appartenant à des fascistes qui les ont créé dans une optique fasciste, on ne va pas s'en sortir.
L'approche "c'est pas bon pour la cognition" abdique sur le terrain politique, sincèrement c'est catastrophique,
L'approche "c'est pas bon pour la cognition" abdique sur le terrain politique, sincèrement c'est catastrophique,
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Tant qu'on ne reviendra pas à la base de la base sur les LLM à savoir: Outil fasciste appartenant à des fascistes qui les ont créé dans une optique fasciste, on ne va pas s'en sortir.
L'approche "c'est pas bon pour la cognition" abdique sur le terrain politique, sincèrement c'est catastrophique,
L'approche "c'est pas bon pour la cognition" abdique sur le terrain politique, sincèrement c'est catastrophique,
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I ask this because I’ve seen multiple posts about friends just being overwhelmed trying to prepare for TDoR vigils and sermons and the pain that’s just around is heart wrenching to see.
Genuine question because I haven’t been plugged in today, has any legacy media done a TDoR story, and have they filtered it through the lens that trans Americans have much less rights or safety than they did one calendar year ago?
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I ask this because I’ve seen multiple posts about friends just being overwhelmed trying to prepare for TDoR vigils and sermons and the pain that’s just around is heart wrenching to see.
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Genuine question because I haven’t been plugged in today, has any legacy media done a TDoR story, and have they filtered it through the lens that trans Americans have much less rights or safety than they did one calendar year ago?
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Genuine question because I haven’t been plugged in today, has any legacy media done a TDoR story, and have they filtered it through the lens that trans Americans have much less rights or safety than they did one calendar year ago?
I dream of LED lights on streetlights only; no LED lights in vehicles, which wouldn't need them anyway if the streets were well-lit.
(of course also, fewer vehicles etc. but whichever vehicles are still there, transit, emergency, etc, will still need good visibility)
(of course also, fewer vehicles etc. but whichever vehicles are still there, transit, emergency, etc, will still need good visibility)
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I dream of LED lights on streetlights only; no LED lights in vehicles, which wouldn't need them anyway if the streets were well-lit.
(of course also, fewer vehicles etc. but whichever vehicles are still there, transit, emergency, etc, will still need good visibility)
(of course also, fewer vehicles etc. but whichever vehicles are still there, transit, emergency, etc, will still need good visibility)
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
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Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.
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Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
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"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives"
"Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated