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»
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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.
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
15.07.2025 08:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
08.07.2025 21:27 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 2
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
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03.07.2025 10:47 — 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 1
Thanks, Tom!
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We're getting ready, see you all soon!
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APS 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
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
20.05.2025 10:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
Registration closing soon!
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16.04.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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15.04.2025 20:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
Registration closing soon!
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16.04.2025 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New publication:
Rethinking Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Incels and Mentalisation
ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/HA...
12.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity
Adolescence is about more than incels and toxic masculinity.
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...
30.03.2025 08:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fox News screenshot. JD Vance annoying Greenland in person. Chyron: VANCE: THIS ISLAND IS NOT SAFE
Consensus worst “LOST” ep
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Alt text:
A screenshot from The Telegraph’s website features a headline reading: “Labour benefit cuts may breach equality law, says human rights watchdog.” The subheading states: “Equality commission to consider how Liz Kendall’s £5b welfare reforms will impact disabled people.” Below the headline is a photo of Liz Kendall speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons. She is wearing large glasses and a dark blue suit, with a serious expression as MPs look on in the background.
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.
22.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 146 🔁 44 💬 11 📌 2
Any Lackers on Bluesky? See you at LACK v!
11.03.2025 22:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
06.03.2025 22:26 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Welcome to fascism, Silicon Valley style
06.03.2025 18:29 — 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon! The Korean translation of my manosphere book from Hakjisa.
www.hakjisa.co.kr/subpage.html...
05.03.2025 09:35 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
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Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society | Volume 30, issue 1
Volume 30, issue 1 articles listing for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
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...
01.03.2025 14:40 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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Indeed. Programme for APS 2025 coming soon!
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We can no longer accept submissions unfortunately. We are working on the conference programme. Our registration will open soon.
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