• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #138

• Integrating Christopher Alexander’s design theory into Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Goodbye Twitter 👋

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #137

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Current mood in AI generated images #135

• Current mood in AI generated images #134

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• Current mood in AI generated images #133

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

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

• I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #132

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

• All trauma is preverbal

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• 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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #130

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

• The friendly face of objet petit a

• 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

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #129

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #128

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• Current mood in AI generated images #127

• 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