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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hope Carney and the premiers know that they are destroying higher education rather quickly. This is bad for youth, and bad for research and innovation. I hope they know this because if they're not purposefully destroying, then they are incredibly incompetent and stubborn. Somehow that's scarier.

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I remain astounded at the failure of universities, as supposed centres for critical enquiry, to challenge the ideological capture of AI. The only AI policy that is ethical, fair and defensible for students is an outright ban on its use.

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 23/09/2026

L’ONG accuse des membres du parti de recourir au harcèlement et à l’intimidation des voix d’opposition.

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Amnistie internationale s’inquiète du comportement des troupes du PQ

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is so much my life some days. Exactly this beautiful relief followed by crushing disappointment. But actually I like most meetings I'm in because I work with many great colleagues, and with fantastic students. I just hope *they* don't feel this post too much.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week Jérôme Melançon & I talk about the politics of gendered writing in French. amandaearl.substack.com/p/14-weeks-w...

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14 Weeks with Jérôme Melançon - 3

Amanda I love the title of your book.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every time someone shows up half-apologetically, half-proud with "I just put this into [LLM chatbot]" it's nonsense we all have to spend more time making sense of and adjusting to. We prepare for meetings so they run well, we prepare agendas so we can prepare for meetings. This sets us off course.

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Neovagina Evangelion @gammarae.design · 15/09/2026

Mark Carney showing he can police state just like the other guy youtube.com/shorts/phsdV...

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Protest erupts as Carney's investment summit kicks off

YouTube video by CBC News

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What is everyone who posts "Never Forget" re: 9/11 asking that we "never forget?"

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

'Here comes your man' but it's about me and the man is a cpap machine

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Carney is now set to trample on rights, destroy ecosystems, and devastate the fight against climate change for his projects. So I guess it’s important that he rewrite history in this way, lest he see his own reflection in elements of history that we’ve rightfully condemned!

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our Conservative Prime Minister constantly relies on the old talking points. He gets to live Stephen Harper's dream: he doesn't have to deal with the fringe right wing and his anti-immigration, anti-Indigenous, exploitative and oppressive policies float right through approval after approval.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Disturbing, offensive, but perhaps fitting that Carney is seeking (much like far-right groups!) to rehab Sir John A’s reputation into that of a Great Uniter, rather than someone who engaged in horrific crimes against Indigenous people and Chinese immigrants (in part to build this project!)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He's doing racist revisionist history of a white supremacist who starved Indigenous children to death. Even by the standards of the time John A Macdonald shocked parliament by openly stating the "superiority of the aryan race" and that Indigenous and Asian people were a "different species"

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Where I reply guy myself into a short thread on the theory and practice of argumentation in Adorno and Horkheimer

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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026

Demonstrating reasoning and language capabilities in computers alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

80085 typed on a traditional calculator, resembling the word "boobs"

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Keeping this for the next time I teach Aquinas

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A new @bmj.com study has found that between a minimum of 24.5% to a maximum of 97.7% of the NFL players who died between 2016-2021 had CTE. This means a huge portion of those who will play this week *already have the disease.* www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching

A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Une sorte de version québécoise de droite de Panic! At the Disco

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think people catching measles then dying is bad, and that the govt should see zero measles deaths as the goal—like America had until recently—rather than see measles as a positive, culling the population of people with other health conditions. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

En Martinique, un jugement qui fera date relaxe des déboulonneurs de statues car ils alertaient « sur un sujet d’intérêt général, la présence dans l’espace public d’une statuaire commémorative du colonialisme et de l’esclavage, crimes contre l’humanité ». www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

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La loi Taubira peut-elle permettre de déboulonner des statues d’esclavagistes ?

En 2020, onze militants et militantes avaient dégradé des statues évoquant le passé colonial et esclavagiste de la Martinique. Ils ont été relaxés en première instance au motif que leurs actes relève…

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Those chips don't *really* taste like ketchup

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

Next time your local or state legislature parrots some lobbyists talking points trying to tell you data centers will "increase our tax revenue," ask them about this NINETY-ONE PERCENT LOSS in tax revenue in Georgia & elsewhere, and whether & How they can guarantee the same thing won't happen to you.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Things I Wish I Already Knew About So I Could Have Enjoyed Them For A Longer Time

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Loved Backrooms, a movie about what it’s like to go to therapy

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“There is no such position as academic neutrality. The failure to critique the status quo is a political act of complicity in its inequalities, its injustices, and exclusions.” The Feminist Collective offers a manifesto about “academic freedom” for those of us who are struggling against injustice.

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Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Never forget que Noël Godin et ses complices ont entarté BHL au moins 8 fois (Voir sa page wikipedia)

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I wrote something tonight. Short, a few scraps, but solid enough to build on.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A final thing to consider is how Nathan Cofnas views Academic Freedom in his own words. Cofnas clearly supports purging the academy of his ideology enemies or think academic freedom matters. “From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars”

Action 2: Change the Population of Decision Makers on Campus
In the last twenty to thirty years, huge numbers of leftist activists have been hired as professors.
Many of these people have nothing to contribute to scholarship and are only here to push their ideological agenda. The activists are now so numerous that it has become almost impossible to be hired by a university without their approval. If they are allowed to control graduate admissions and faculty hiring for another generation, it is game over. From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars from these decision-making processes.

There are two ways to reduce the power of the wokesters on campus: remove them by showing that they don't satisfy minimal criteria for contract renewal or academic promotion, or dilute their influence by bringing in some of the non-woke scholars who have been pushed out of academia for political reasons.
Regarding the first option, critics may say that removing, or taking any other action against, the pseudoscholars would violate "academic freedom." But academic freedom doesn't mean that taxpayers have a moral obligation to (directly or indirectly) finance lifelong sinecures for political activists, many of whom were hired by illegal procedures where straight white men or non-leftists were disqualified in advance.
Realistically, however, it will be very difficult to get rid of people who have already been hired and even given tenure.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/08/2026

we’re at costco and my husband ordered a hot dog from the cashier and the guy said “what flavor” and my husband said wat and costco guy said “jk there’s only one flavor. it’s hot dog” and my husband said dammit you did this to me last time and the costco cashier collapsed in giggles

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Lucy, Mighty Bundle @mondaymorningdm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm joining the war on ice cream on the side of ice cream

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Wow. That Marx guy really didn't like Stirner, eh?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Canada is putting pressure on you to change things on your side. It doesn't matter if Canadian boycotts harm Americans because American tarrifs already harm Canadians. The point is to cause economic harm on Canada in the first place. Canada is not to blame for these boycotts.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh dear me, what a shame, how sad, etc...

@nathancofnas

I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.

The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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