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  • 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

  • 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

  • đź“– Things I’ve read in 2026

  • An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

  • Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

  • Generative AI and the emergency remote scholarship of the Covid-19 pandemic

  • A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

  • The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

  • The jouissance of the new far right

  • Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

  • The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

  • Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

  • Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

  • How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

  • Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

  • How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

  • Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

  • Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

  • The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

  • Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

  • Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

  • Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

  • Distracted from distraction by distraction

  • Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

  • Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

  • American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

  • We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

  • Are you overworking as an academic?

  • The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

  • Chapters abstracts for my new book

  • Taking the AGI pill

  • What if universities no longer existed?

  • An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

  • Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

  • A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

  • “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

  • 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

  • This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

  • A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

  • I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

  • The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

  • Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

  • Does Trump dictate his tweets?

  • Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

  • What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

  • The invention of the Marvel universe

  • The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

  • An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

  • Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

  • How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

  • The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

  • So here I am

  • Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

  • Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

  • Your next chapter will be great

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