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  • The relational reflexivity of frontier models

  • The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

  • The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

  • Julia Kristeva on the collapse of meaning into the unnameable

  • Does articulation blunt inner experience or elaborate it? Some thoughts on compulsive digital writing

  • Expanding the very possibilities of being

  • A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

  • The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

  • When LLMs give each other therapy

  • We are poised on the shore of a new continent

  • A psychoanalytical theory of thirdness

  • Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

  • LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

  • Winnicott’s distinction between the true self and the false self

  • Can you wait for 139 seconds?

  • An interesting test for new Claude models

  • The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

  • Do large language models have a psychology?

  • Human concern as the interface between realist sociology and psychoanalysis

  • The voluntaristic streak in Mari Ruti’s psychoanalytical art of living

  • Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way

  • Do I discover the Thing’s glow or do I place it there?

  • Why do we want what we want?

  • Gemini’s propensity for self-loathing

  • AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

  • The developmental harms of LLMs which are showing up in the literature

  • Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

  • 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

  • LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

  • Ex-uber CEO claims that he’s close to major scientific discoveries through ‘vibe physics’

  • Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

  • The need for an ontology of AI therapy

  • The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

  • What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

  • Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

  • The objects which haunt us

  • Are LLMs hysterics?

  • On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

  • Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

  • Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

  • Ask ChatGPT to generate an image of how you have treated it recently

  • GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

  • Are LLMs parasites?

  • ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

  • A profile of an LLM-addict

  • “I’ve got a feeling that I could be someone”

  • Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

  • What is a mood?

  • How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

  • LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

  • People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

  • Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

  • How do cultural objects change who we are?

  • Internal conversation as a form of object relating

  • The psychoticizing potential of social media

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