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• On respect for what exists

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• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Marking or Grading in the Age of AI: What Every Educator Needs to Know

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• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• All trauma is preverbal

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• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #131

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• 7 myths about Generative AI in education

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• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

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• Burdened by the image of an unalienated future, one finds oneself fleeing from existence itself

• Interview about teacher training and generative AI in Times Education Supplement

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

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• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

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• The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #126

• I live my life in widening circles

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• A concise explanation of why you should leave Twitter/X

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

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• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

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• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• There was a Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 😮

• Current mood in AI generated images #125

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• Nerd cultures building up around academics and their tools: mathematicians and chalk

• The Deepfake Detection test

• Those whom we transform into myth are themselves myth-ridden