- ‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain…’
- How blogging is different from tweeting
- Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking
- Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy
- Top AI tools for knowledge work
- Nick Cave on sobriety
- You either die a hero or you live long enough to see Batman’s words misattributed to you
- Gabor Maté on the reality expressed through depression
- Some thoughts about generative AI and the future of education
- What’s the difference between a cult and a community?
- A critical realist critique of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthumanism
- Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it
- The insidious sexism of Modern Family
- Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant
- Incorporating blogging into an academic CV
- What is an intellectual community?
- Chomsky on Generative AI: “it’s basically just a way of wasting a lot of the energy in California”
- The tension between attachment and authenticity
- Human Beings, Social Agents and Social Actors
- The concept of cathexis
- Google’s war against latency
- On the coming loss of a companion animal
Raiding the inarticulate since 2010
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