Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score» 1/

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

so i went and looked, and people are playing games with a trollish 4chan grok, or it is playing with them. its frankly disturbing, weird directly radicalizing interactions between an AI and users. CN hate speech screenshots below

The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️‍🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1440614559... ❤️

APS 2025 - We are ready! See you tomorrow @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social

We're getting ready, see you all soon!

We are incredibly excited about the programme for our upcoming annual APS conference: www.conftool.net/aps-2025/ses... You can still register! @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social

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Penned by Thomas Mann for Freud’s 80th birthday: “A thinker and investigator who knew how to stand alone and then drew many to him and with him, he went his way and penetrated to truths which seemed dangerous because they revealed what had been anxiously hidden, and illumined dark places. 1/6

Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025 Registration closing soon! www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

New publication: Rethinking Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Incels and Mentalisation ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/HA...

Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity everydayinquiry.substack.com/p/adolescenc...

Coming out in September… #psychoanalysis

I have written a short piece on Adolescence. The series is about more than "toxic masculinity". Many thanks to Everyday Analysis for publishing. www.everydayanalysis.co.uk/post/adolesc...

Consensus worst “LOST” ep

In der Netflix-Serie »Adolescence« begeht ein 13-Jähriger einen kaum fassbaren Mord. Wurde er von der sogenannten »Incel«-Community angestachelt? Der Kommunikationsforscher Jacob Johanssen dechiffriert die Codes und Werte der Subkultur.

NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.

Any Lackers on Bluesky? See you at LACK v!

Honestly this is quite bad form AT BEST. I’m very unclear why VCs are so thin skinned. You are paid multiples of even rather well paid folks’ salary…that’s part of what you’re paid for. I mean no one enjoys it but if some wants to pay me an extra£” £170k a year to be insulted…let’s talk!

Coming soon! The Korean translation of my manosphere book from Hakjisa. www.hakjisa.co.kr/subpage.html...

New: The government has spent £400 million on staff costs for PIP appeals since 2013. But the real cost? The anguish, breakdowns, and worsening illness caused by a system built on disbelief. Disabled people shouldn’t have to fight for survival. #PIP #DisabilityJustice

Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Volume 30, Issue 1 is now available online Academic Freedom: Reclaiming paths to individual and collective sovereignty, edited by Stephen Frosh, Michael O’Loughlin, Angie Voela link.springer.com/journal/4128...

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Indeed. Programme for APS 2025 coming soon!

Exciting things are happening for APS 2025 @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social More details coming soon!

Following today's higher than expected inflation figures, Labour says the road to the Bank of England's 2% target will be ‘bumpy’. In truth, it won’t be reached in this parliament and these prolonged inflationary tendencies will play right into the hands of Reform in 2029. 1/11

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

The Journal of Psychosocial Studies invites submissions for a special section dedicated to examining the ongoing political crisis marked by the results of the elections in the USA, and the rise of populism and authoritarianism across the USA and Europe.

Deadline is today! 📌

Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025 www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...

📣Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025 Conference - Deadline 10 Feb @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social 🔖Paper, panel and experiential proposals all welcome! www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

📣Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025 Conference - Deadline 10 Feb @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social 🔖Paper, panel and experiential proposals all welcome! www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

Der Sturm gegen Merz nimmt krass Fahrt auf! Von Hamburg über Leipzig, Würzburg, Halle, Aachen… - und morgen in Berlin auf der Reichstagswiese MIT Michel Friedmann!

Wishing you all a happy New Year for 2025! We look forward to welcoming old and new members to our conference in June!

Deadline is coming up!

It’s all going to be much worse than most ppl think.

Twin Peaks

David Lynch, a psychoanalytic filmmaker if ever there was one. RIP

Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social 9-10 June 2025, St Mary’s University www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2... 📣Deadline: 10 February 2025

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

This year I resolve to finish what I

Reminder 👇

One of my favourite artists doing a Christmas song: soundcloud.com/gustav-1/mer...

Call for Editor and Associate Editors of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies Application deadline: Friday 31st January 2025 Suitable for PhD students / ECRs and more senior scholars respectively. Please pass on! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...