• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• It is not too late to seek a newer world

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• Current mood in AI generated images #59

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Intuition as social theory

• The reparative activity of cow-watching 🐮

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• The next wave of GAI: the digital daemon is coming soon

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• A map of AI productivity tools

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #58

• A trans reading of Poor Things

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in AI generated images #57

• Tell us where you’re from, what you want to become

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• Digital-first scholarship

• An introduction to asexuality

• I never trusted my love and her wallpaper feelings

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• Current mood in AI generated images #56

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• 📍Exciting opportunity to join our team: 2 x permanent T&R lectureships at University of Manchester

• Capybaras: water loving hippo hamsters who can’t be bothered enough to care

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• Building local journalism around quality rather than quantity

• Adorno and the Busenattentat (breast action)

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Current mood in AI generated images #55

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• Margaret Archer’s interest in reflexivity was there from 1979

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a