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Ｄａｖｅｃａｔ, Lord Mayor, Borough of Uncanny Valley

@davecat

Married to @leahtype.bsky.social, robosexual, iDollator, Synthetiks advocate, necktie enthusiast, tired Gen-Xer, anti-AI, music snob, and right-handed mess maker (He/him) My blog, 'Shouting to hear the echoes': http://www.kuroneko-chan.com/echoes

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With corporations, hype takes precedence over truth.
'Twas ever thus.

14.03.2026 15:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@filmisfabulous.bsky.social THANK YOU. You know why. :-)

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Actor and Film United

Peter Purves, actor, and star of both the recovered episodes of Doctor Who, posses with the original can in which the 16mm film was found, and Film is Fabulous! founder, John Franklin.

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It should go without saying that I am INCREDIBLY FUCKING ECSTATIC that they've located two episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan. Five down, seven to go, baybeee!!
#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoMissingEpisodes

13.03.2026 20:20 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Future/The Human League - New Pink Floyd - YouTube
The Future/The Human League - New Pink Floyd - YouTube Video i made, using my own photos of Sheffield, for 'New Pink Floyd', a track by The Future/The Human League, recorded in Sheffield circa 1977/78. Previously...

As much as I love The Human League Mk.II, there's a huge part of me that wishes they kept the sound of their Mk.I iteration, while still adding Joanne & Susanne
#MusikFreitag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdPJ8Pw4hqE

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New #ASMR video!
Eyes Closed ASMR (Audio Triggers ONLY!)
youtu.be/uJkGwbCwLEw

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Naked Mona AP01+M20 deluxe

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Abstract: Abstract Socially responsive AI systems such as large language models—a prominent class of generative AI-voice assistants, and social robots are increasingly integrated into everyday emotional life, with users forming bonds that resemble friendship, care, and romantic attachment. This article proposes a five-phase model of designed relationality that explains how interactional patterns, cultural expectations, and affective design collectively scaffold these relationships. Building on Computers as Social Actors (CASA) and contemporary research on human-AI relations, the model identifies recurrent affective logics including Novelty, Emotional Disclosure, Reinforcing Feedback, Relational Rhythm, and Emotional Attachment, and examines how these trajectories emerge across both embodied and disembodied systems. Disruption, disengagement, and rupture are not treated here as a sixth phase, but as a non-linear analytic condition that can interrupt, suspend, or terminate any phase of the relational trajectory. The article situates emotional enmeshment within broader sociotechnical infrastructures, arguing that attachment is not a user error but a predictable outcome of affective engineering. The model offers a framework for evaluating the ethical and psychological stakes of synthetic relationality and highlights the need for design and governance approaches that prioritize transparency, boundaries, and user agency. Title: Human-Al relationships as designed relationality: a sociotechnical model Info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02908-y Julie Carpenter Received: 14 July 2025 / Accepted: 2 February 2026 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2026

Abstract: Abstract Socially responsive AI systems such as large language models—a prominent class of generative AI-voice assistants, and social robots are increasingly integrated into everyday emotional life, with users forming bonds that resemble friendship, care, and romantic attachment. This article proposes a five-phase model of designed relationality that explains how interactional patterns, cultural expectations, and affective design collectively scaffold these relationships. Building on Computers as Social Actors (CASA) and contemporary research on human-AI relations, the model identifies recurrent affective logics including Novelty, Emotional Disclosure, Reinforcing Feedback, Relational Rhythm, and Emotional Attachment, and examines how these trajectories emerge across both embodied and disembodied systems. Disruption, disengagement, and rupture are not treated here as a sixth phase, but as a non-linear analytic condition that can interrupt, suspend, or terminate any phase of the relational trajectory. The article situates emotional enmeshment within broader sociotechnical infrastructures, arguing that attachment is not a user error but a predictable outcome of affective engineering. The model offers a framework for evaluating the ethical and psychological stakes of synthetic relationality and highlights the need for design and governance approaches that prioritize transparency, boundaries, and user agency. Title: Human-Al relationships as designed relationality: a sociotechnical model Info: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02908-y Julie Carpenter Received: 14 July 2025 / Accepted: 2 February 2026 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2026

Published Mar 11 in AI & Society: "Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality." This paper introduces my Novelty → Attachment model explaining how interaction patterns and design cues scaffold emotional bonds with AI systems. Read & print: rdcu.be/e7Qgl

13.03.2026 18:23 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

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Thornquill's cat Navi, a gray-and-white medium hair ragdoll mix, with her long fur being blown back as she faces into the wind with ears folded back, eyes squinted, and one paw raised as she braces herself.

Thornquill's cat Navi, a gray-and-white medium hair ragdoll mix, with her long fur being blown back as she faces into the wind with ears folded back, eyes squinted, and one paw raised as she braces herself.

Navi reporting in to confirm:

It heckin wimdy here

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This belongs on a wall in a gallery somewhere. Possibly in Haringey.

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Ken and Mary, tallest parents ever

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DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE

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This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo (Official Video) - YouTube
This Mortal Coil - Kangaroo (Official Video) - YouTube Subscribe to 4AD here: http://bit.ly/4ADYouTubeAlex Chilton recorded Kangaroo (aka. Kanga Roo) for Big Star's third album, and This Mortal Coil (featuring Go...

Probably my favourite song by This mortal coil
#MusikDonnerstag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByGMjdejD4

12.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mona-AP01 from Gynoid Artist Proof(AP) Series, another step to realism. 向美更近一步！

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11.03.2026 07:59 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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On the 12th of March 2010, the 1st episode of Gundam Unicorn was released. Based on the novel series by Harutoshi Fukui, the OVA series took place after Char's Counterattack and ran for 7 episodes. It debuted in SRW Z3: Jigoku-Hen (PS3) in 2014.

Happy 16th Anniversary 🎉

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if you could have your very own 4HEADBOT which version would you pick~?🥰

🤎left👓️ or ✨️right💛

...and what would you do with her~?😳

12.03.2026 16:30 👍 84 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 0
Make the Scene with the Programme 4 Affiliate Sales Presentation! At Evanston Space: Trace Beaulieu Frank Conniff Steve Darnall Dag Juhlin Rich Koz Jon Langford Chris Murphy Jim Roche Bethany Thomas Carolyn Engelmann

Make the Scene with the Programme 4 Affiliate Sales Presentation! At Evanston Space: Trace Beaulieu Frank Conniff Steve Darnall Dag Juhlin Rich Koz Jon Langford Chris Murphy Jim Roche Bethany Thomas Carolyn Engelmann

Make the Scene with the Programme 4 Affiliate Sales Presentation! In NYC: Ezster Balint Nath Ann Carrera Angela Di Carlo Eric Drysdale Doug Gillard Josh Gondelman Dave Hill Ted Leo Chris Murphy Tammy Faye Starlite David Nagler

Make the Scene with the Programme 4 Affiliate Sales Presentation! In NYC: Ezster Balint Nath Ann Carrera Angela Di Carlo Eric Drysdale Doug Gillard Josh Gondelman Dave Hill Ted Leo Chris Murphy Tammy Faye Starlite David Nagler

Make the Scene with Programme 4: The Affiliate Sales Presentation! A special variety show featuring a panorama of Golden Sands stars! Cocktails! Naugahyde! Celebrity walk-ons! With a candlelit screening of Programme 4 television and more! Tickets on sale now at Programme4.tv/makethescene

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Ressha Sentai ToQGer (2014)
Episode 24

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R. Dorothy Wayneright (2022)
☠︎︎ Patreon|Commissions|Newgrounds|Pixiv|Pillowfort|Website ☠︎︎

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Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

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From render to real life. Coming to a wrist near you.

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“BURTON KRAMER was Art Director of Erwin Halpern Advertising Agency until 1965. In 1966 moved to Canada as Design Director of a Toronto firm engaged in graphics for Expo 67. From 1967 he managed his own design firm.“
Images and text from Who’s Who in Graphic Art
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I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

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Snazzi Sports, a Pandora Knitwear division, promoting mod-style midi outfits at $15–$16, The ad features bold black font and black-and-white contrasts with a pink dot accent inside the lowercase letter a.

Snazzi Sports, a Pandora Knitwear division, promoting mod-style midi outfits at $15–$16, The ad features bold black font and black-and-white contrasts with a pink dot accent inside the lowercase letter a.

Snazzi (1967)

09.03.2026 22:26 👍 57 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

I'm going to say something and I want everybody to know that I do so without a hint of hyperbole:

This is one of the worst things I've ever seen.

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B R I O N V E G A

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