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Chandler, A. (2016). Self-injury, medicine and society: Authentic bodies. Springer.

Chaney, S. (2011). Self-control, selfishness and mutilation: How ‘medical’ is self-injury anyway?. Medical History, 55(3), 375-382.

Chaney, S. (2017). Psyche on the skin: A history of self-harm. Reaktion Books.

Gilman, S. L. (2013). From psychiatric symptom to diagnostic category: Self-harm from the Victorians to DSM-5. History of Psychiatry, 24(2), 148-165.

Millard, C. (2013). Making the cut: The production of ‘self-harm’ in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry. History of the Human Sciences, 26(2), 126-150.

Millard, C. (2015). A history of self-harm in Britain: A genealogy of cutting and overdosing. Palgrave Macmillan.

Also see this essay [link] [1] for a more antipsych perspective of self-harm.

Couple of tumblr posts to start things off. Caden's blog is a great place to find resources about a variety of antipsych topics

This is a great starting point for learning about antipsych perspectives/frameworks/etc

"Cutting The Risk." Practical guide for self harm risk reduction. Some of the language and approach is more prescriptivist than I prefer ("don't do it this way because it increases your risk of [whatever]" instead of "if you do it this way your risk of [whatever] increases" which i really do feel is important) but theres a lot of good technical information, and it is generally nonjudgmental:

Nonjudgmental zine by and for people who have self harmed or currently self harm:

Some useful technical first aid advice, but some of it feels iffy- "one pill over the prescribed amount" does not generally, maybe almost ever, constitute an overdose & I don't think that's a useful thing to tell people. For non-substance-related first aid advice though, this seems a generally good overview:

And having said that, for some actual good substance related harm reduction advice and technical information, National Harm Reduction Coalition's "Getting Off Right" guide is an amazing resource, written by and for people who inject drugs:

And NEXT distro's resource library is invaluable:

Harm reduction advice for eating disorders:

This article looks potentially relevant/interesting but it's paywalled & all I could read was the abstract. If you have access through a school or something, though, it might be worth a read

people should not be shaming you

it's okay that you don't have a better answer right now

Amity told girls that they're not broken and paid the price

We all want to reap the benefits (having a friend circle, having a partner, getting married) without doing the work (going to events, interacting with people, learning to handle conflict maturely, dating). Myself included. If I could, I'd never leave the house or go on another mediocre date again... except, that's part of the process.

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

I NEED to sit on you and tickle you with my little legs. I NEED to be really loud and annoying. I NEED to sit on your body instead of literally anything else in your room. I NEED to put my yucky tongue on any food or drink you're having.

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

I am anti-genAI, especially in creative fandom spaces, but I'm even bigger against witch hunts and harassment. Because that's all what this "exposed authors" document list (and future lists) is going to do. It doesn't matter if there's a big disclaimer about NOT attacking the people listed. The internet will do what the internet does nowadays and backstab anyone they deem unworthy, especially toward ones that they've been given the greenlight to attack. The obsession and paranoia about wanting to make sure that every single fandom creation is not made with AI is, quite frankly, getting out of fucking hand. No, I don't want to read AI works. But I don't have enough time in the day or much less the ability to care about checking. If I suspect something is amiss, I'll just do the fandom of old: Don't Like, Don't Read. Don't Like? Don't Engage. Hit the back button.

No one owes anything to anyone. No photo proof. No video proof. No screenshots or anything else.

There are people out there using grammarly to edit their work because English might not be their first language, or they don’t know enough people to find a beta, or they’re dyslexic, or god knows how many other reasons.

There are people out there who are on the spectrum and their written work reads like ChatGPT because that’s how their brain works. There are people out there who are so goddamn skilled at what they do, others struggle to believe it’s real.

Do you know who else was like that? Michelangelo. Do you know *how many people* have stood in front of the statue of David and thought *how the fuck did any human create that?*

There are soo many telented people out there who are infinitely better than you, be it written word or drawn image, or hell, even a photoshopped picture. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do.

Stop adding to the witch hunts. Stop trying to cancel people loudly.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

It's impossible to detect whether text was created by AI because the patterns AI writing follows come from human writers