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The more we feel like we're a terrible person, the less we feel like the kind of person who deserves to live in a different way to this. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/

Netflix shareholders voted to oust Jay Hoag, who's served on its board since 1999; Hoag offered his resignation and the board has 90 days to accept or reject it (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-shareholde…

Netflix Shareholders Vote to Oust Jay Hoag, Its Lead Independent Director
Jay Hoag, who has served on Netflix's board since 1999, failed to get reelected at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together the voices of early-career researchers from multiple fields, it explores how AI systems that simulate or interpret human emotions are reshaping our interactions in areas such as education, healthcare, mental health, caregiving, and digital life. The analysis is structured around four central themes: the ethical implications of emotional AI, …

Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
Vladimir Braverman, Prathamesh Dharangutte, Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang, Hoai-An Nguyen, Chen Wang, Yubo Zhang, Samson Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12287

Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at a low cost. The goal is to produce a near-optimal fair clustering on $n$ input points with a minimum number of strong oracle queries. This models the increasingly common trade-off between accurate but expensive similarity measures (e.g., large-scale embedding…

I think what I'm saying is just like healing is not linear - a fact that I resent daily - nor is progress with hoarding recovery or dehoarding https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-189-scaffolding-hoarding-jan-eppingstall/

The antidote to #shame is #selfcompassion
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Podcast ep 190: What if we forgive ourselves, but now we know better, we do better? Choosing compassion over shame in hoarding disorder https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/

We don’t trust ourselves to make decisions. We second-guess ourselves constantly. We’re constantly doubting ourselves https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-188-decision-making-hoarding-disorder/

NEW! Podcast ep 190: What if we forgive ourselves, but now we know better, we do better? Choosing compassion over shame in hoarding disorder https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/

Self-compassion is one of the ways we can start to break this shame cycle. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-190-self-compassion-shame-hoarding/