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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

  • 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

  • We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

  • Why we need a machine sociology #2: Moltbook is not the thing. Moltbook shows us what the thing is going to look like.

  • An interview about generative AI in academic life

  • Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

  • “They are shooting at a little girl alone In a car surrounded by corpses. Can you imagine that?”

  • Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

  • A few heuristics for responsible use of LLMs

  • Unrequited meaning

  • Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

  • Let the tower fall!

  • 🐀 Rat Jump! A Game Made by Kids (with a little help from AI)

  • I lazily send songs like flocks of doves into the blue above⁠

  • Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

  • Why we need a machine sociology #1

  • My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

  • An AI-Assisted Overview of My Research: Claude Reviews My Publication Record

  • A message in a bottle to the future machine god

  • Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

  • The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

  • The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

  • Encouraging language model to express themselves

  • Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

  • We must move, must grow, from apocalypse to dialectic

  • The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

  • The first inbox zero in about six months

  • An army of assistants working while you sleep

  • Ask ChatGPT to generate an image of how you have treated it recently

  • The enshittification of ChatGPT begins!

  • Satya Nadella’s fantasy economics of LLMs

  • How do government ministers use ChatGPT?

  • What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

  • Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei both love the same film

  • The last 10 ways I used Claude and ChatGPT

  • The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

  • What happens when the AI bubble pops?

  • to drag it out and to make it echo and to get involved and to fall in love

  • Calendar fragility in hybrid workplaces

  • GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

  • Social media firms actively undermine the relationship between content creators and their communities

  • Who else is there that can know the subtle intent of my life?

  • I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading

  • A room in the back of my mind

  • Are LLMs parasites?

  • I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill

  • ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

  • A profile of an LLM-addict

  • Why do we choose the cultural objects that we choose?

  • You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

  • Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

  • “I’ve got a feeling that I could be someone”

  • 📣 Join the AI Commons

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