• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• 🐈‍⬛ Farewell my silent comrade

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Michigan, 1975

• Who actually reads this blog?

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• And everybody’s hurt, and mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• We circle round the sun until someday we won’t, and on and on and on it goes

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• 🐈‍⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal

• If AI was like a hammer

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• 🔥🐉 The power of the dragon flame

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Current mood in AI generated images #29

• Destroy what mutilates life

• Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• Everything’s a deadline when you’re trying to find some sleep

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• I want to unfold

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd.

• ChatGPT: how can academics use the new voice conversation and image analysis features?

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

• Synthetic humans as research instruments

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• I will finish this book by Nov 12th ✊

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Current mood in AI generated images #28

• The secret origin of NESTA

• On returning to music

• Some notes on projectification

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• “You just cannot trust someone who is publishing ten papers a year in top journals.”

• When we get together, take apart my fantasy; when we are done, we’ll work on you

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• Urban geometries

• My 30 favourite films of the last two years

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• Academic censorship on sexual misconduct and power abuse: Not in our academia

• I guess this is growing up

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• You’re waiting for more than you can feel

• Machine translation in higher education

• Can academic projects keep up with the UX expectations of students?

• Some thoughts on Bluesky

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #27

• How to think contextually about educational technology

• Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

• To what extent was Roy Bhaskar’s later philosophy shaped by Theosophism?

• Lauren Berlant on the couple form’s own ordinary dangers

• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• A list of human cognitive biases and the assumptions underpinning them

• Erfahrung: conspiracies, baking and the return of the repressed

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• The music of the data centre

• Interview with me in VoltEdu about academic social media after Twitter

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #26

• “Go, you chicken fat, go!”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #25

• Lauren Berlant on writing in a parenthetical voice

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #24

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• Societal collapse is a process rather an event

• The hostility to earnestness in 90s/00s British culture

• Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in

• What we call the beginning is often the end

• Goodbye summer ☀️ 👋 🍂

• A really interesting spin on interdisciplinarity in digital scholarship

• Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• 9 Stoic Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)

• On learning what matters to us

• How to reduce the environmental impact of generative AI

• The beat that completes your shit these days

• The looming crisis in higher education

• Void left by decline of academic Twitter ‘will be hard to fill’

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Mad Explosive Spontaneity

• Current mood in AI generated images #23

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world