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  • Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

  • What Should Mark Do in April? A Debate Between Claude and GPT

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s March Blogging

  • GPT 5.4’s roundup of Mark’s March blogging

  • I did a half marathon in a storm yesterday

  • The obscure moon lighting an obscure world

  • The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

  • Which types of media does AI cite?

  • What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

  • UCU’s 10 principles for AI

  • Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

  • The objects which haunt us

  • Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence

  • Hello Spring

  • AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

  • 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

  • Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

  • 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

  • What am I? I am only dust in this light

  • Things I’ve learned about life from a year of distance running

  • I have waited here, under the stars for the longest time

  • Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

  • Together we can make hope normal again

  • The internal tensions facing Reform before the next election

  • Are LLMs hysterics?

  • Sex as the things we cannot say

  • What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

  • Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

  • On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

  • Claude Code GitHub commits over time

  • From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

  • Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

  • LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

  • Unlike the saints, we have no use for angels

  • If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

  • 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

  • A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

  • To work and to build, to connect, and create

  • The absence of God becomes the silence between two notes, the empty space that gave resonance to the music

  • What Should Mark Do in March? A Dialogue Between Claude and GPT

  • GPT 5.4’s round up of Mark’s February blogging

  • On warming to a theme: LLMs as overenthusiastic conversationalists

  • The victory over winter, which is coming, must come, perhaps has already come…

  • Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

  • Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

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