Jacob Johanssen

Thanks, Justin!

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»
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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.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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
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Thanks, Tom!

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

Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
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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.

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Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
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New publication:
Rethinking Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Incels and Mentalisation

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Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity The Netherlands now following the UK in launching initiatives to show Netflix's four-part series Adolescence in middle schools while France's education ministry ponders tighter controls on teens exposed to hate speech and porn. We’ll ask about a fiction inspired by real life cases of boys who went so far as to murder girls.

Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity by Jacob Johanssen

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

Coming out in September…
#psychoanalysis

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...

Fox News screenshot. JD Vance annoying Greenland in person. Chyron: VANCE: THIS ISLAND IS NOT SAFE

Consensus worst “LOST” ep

Netflix-Serie »Adolescence«: Incel-Mythos der 80-20-Regel im Faktencheck 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.

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.

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.

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 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
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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