• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• And everybody’s hurt, and mine ain’t the worst but it’s mine and I’m feeling it now

• Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• We circle round the sun until someday we won’t, and on and on and on it goes

• The evident satisfaction with which cats inhabit their skins

• 🐈‍⬛ On the coming loss of a companion animal

• If AI was like a hammer

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• 🔥🐉 The power of the dragon flame

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

• Urban exploration YouTube channels

• I have fairly rapidly argued myself out of enthusiasm for Bluesky

• Current mood in AI generated images #29

• Destroy what mutilates life

• Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Could Bluesky be the replacement for Academic Twitter? 

• Everything’s a deadline when you’re trying to find some sleep

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• I want to unfold

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd.

• ChatGPT: how can academics use the new voice conversation and image analysis features?

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

• Synthetic humans as research instruments

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• I will finish this book by Nov 12th ✊

• The evolution of the prompt in Twitter’s compose tweet bios

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Current mood in AI generated images #28

• The secret origin of NESTA

• On returning to music

• Some notes on projectification

• Proper old school academic hostility to social media

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• “You just cannot trust someone who is publishing ten papers a year in top journals.”

• When we get together, take apart my fantasy; when we are done, we’ll work on you

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• Urban geometries

• My 30 favourite films of the last two years

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• Academic censorship on sexual misconduct and power abuse: Not in our academia

• I guess this is growing up

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• You’re waiting for more than you can feel

• Machine translation in higher education

• Can academic projects keep up with the UX expectations of students?