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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 13h

Ok this is fascinating I might love it

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 06/10/2026

For those who are unable to attend, you can find a version of Olivia’s talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...

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What is AI, and why is it harmful?

YouTube video by Olivia Guest

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Surprised that Ice Cube invests this much in research, but good for him, his name on a Nobel prize, wow.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 06/10/2026

Leviathan Short Victory: Complete your studies of Man and of Commonwealth Leviathan Long Victory: Banish the Kingdom of Darkness! Leviathan Domination Victory: Master the Civill Science and defeat the Democratical Gentlemen

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You'd need more than words to explain it to them.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ils vont se crinquer contre le PCQ aussi, je ne pense pas qu'il y ait de loyauté. Il me semble que la plupart s'y sont joint récemment (je me trompe peut-être). Le crinquage c'est une arme à plusieurs tranchants. En même temps, une droite qui passe sont temps à se taper dessus ça ferait mon affaire.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

J'imagine surtout que les conservateurs n'auront pas d'esprit de groupe et qu'il sera très difficile de maintenir une ligne de parti. Certains au moins vont désenchanter de la réalité parlementaire et être prêts à suivre les belles offres qu'on pourrait leur faire.

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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Gonna’ pin this here.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can only imagine that some PCQ will cross the floor at the first occasion they have to taste power. Others will vote for the racist laws the PQ is bound to put out and prop it up for a bit.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

DIX-HUIT CONSERVATEURS. DIX-HUIT. Du monde en masse pour passer vite vite les lois d'extrême-droite racistes du PQ.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ouin. Le Québec, ça fait dur votre affaire. Et puis ce commentaire vient de la Saskatchewan, c'est dire.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's kind of my thought as well. Personal trust, relationships create a kind of accountability that isn't possible with the scale that most free tools are at.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That would be interesting, yes. Let's talk!

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a researcher, I have other people's sensitive, emotionally valuable data. I have local storage, of course. But there is a part that my team works on together. My university would now store it on Microsoft's US servers and I'm looking to pull it to a secure location. How would cDox handle this?

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As a researcher and writer, I'm concerned about my intellectual property. I'm used to this by now: promises are made one day, then the ToS change. I'm hoping my work won't be used to train Gen AI or other similar machines, and that it will remain private as long as it's on your servers.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Merci Barry. You have me sold on the simple and sleek layout, and on the Canadian servers. I appreciated your approach in the interview too. It's hard to assume good faith in tech, others might have ruined that for you, so I appreciate you reaching out. I do have a few questions:

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the AI data centre being built outside Regina ends up being as big as promised, it will use as much power as four Reginas. Simon Enoch from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives breaks it all down on the QCIB: youtu.be/O1u24Kg0LoI?... #yqrcc

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QCIB Oct 01 2026 - This Is Fine! with Simon Enoch

YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This disconnect from reality and abject failure to LISTEN to people, in order to uplift institutional agendas IS WHY the public has lost trust in higher education. The pattern is everywhere: SA cases everywhere, student debt crisis, public engagement. It’s not rocket science. It’s failure.

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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And in Canada everything is the same. Exoneration or consequenceless consequences, pushing law "enforcement" aside, forcing women to try to cope with the assault and the lack of response or just dropping out. Tuition keeps rolling in, donations keep rolling in - because the image is "managed."

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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

But getting something done with AI feels like a very small child showing a drawing they made and having to say "oh yes that's a beautiful robot" and the whole thing is scribbles and you don't know if they're messing with you

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

Sometimes I wonder if it's either that the confidence in the machines is so great, or that the thrill of getting away with not doing the work feels so good

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

I'm full of anger this morning and this is just the one I can vent on easily.

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

This is WORK, people. It's not meant to be easy and seemless. The work will happen either way, it'll either be productive and allow us to come together and achieve something, or frustrating and alienating.

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

Idk, maybe Carney is just homesick for Davos

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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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Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nietzsche's position in the order is unexpected

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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

Adorno *hates* hobbies. You should see what he says about CAMPING.

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