Tag Archives: online harm

Do You Think You’re Fucking Clever?

A provocation about what cleverness really means in an age of AI-mediated manipulation. From Earl Aubec carving reality from Chaos to the Asymmetric Integration Model, the article argues that exploiting human behaviour is not creation. As social media, AI and post-truth systems converge, WARP Labs aims to restore agency to the human side of the interface by making influence legible, controllable and defensible. And it wouldn’t be a Horkan blog article without a callout to Michael Moorcock and a tiny bit of an expletive.

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Psyber Inc: The Best Bits So Far

A short overview of some of the strongest articles currently on Psyber Inc, exploring cyberpsychology, organisational resilience, recoverability, human factors, and post-breach adaptation. The article also connects Psyber Inc’s operational cyber resilience work to broader themes explored on Horkan.com around systems thinking, digital environments, online harm, cognition, and cybernetic approaches to behaviour and recovery.

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Structuring Cyberpsychology: From Foundations to Practice

This article sets out the structure of a cyberpsychology curriculum designed to address the coherence gap identified in Cyberpsychology Today. Rather than treating cyberpsychology as a loose collection of effects, this framework organises the field from foundational theory through to applied practice. The phases that follow are not arbitrary. They reflect the minimum conceptual spine required to study how persistent, mediated digital environments shape human psychology, and how that knowledge can be responsibly translated into research, policy, and real-world intervention. What follows is not a manifesto, but an architecture for learning.

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