• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The preciousness of what is already broken

• How I miss you, how I miss you. And it’s good to be alive

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• The strange intimacy of marginalia

• The hungry ghosts

• Gabor Maté on grieving as compassionate inquiry

• Nature’s aim for everything includes its cessation

• I am a weatherman watching the skies, trying to read you

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• 🐈‍⬛ Farewell my silent comrade

• What will the automated university look like?

• Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

• Michigan, 1975

• Who actually reads this blog?

• How the concept of platform shaped my research

• Video: Building the post-pandemic university

• 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