• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• Obama the Blairite moderniser

• Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

• The unity of dread and bliss

• “You can’t change the past but you can make the future. Anyone who tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil”

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• The death of participatory media

• In all its longings and hesitations, the shape of what you lived

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• Teaching with Chat-GPT

• Chomsky on Generative AI: “it’s basically just a way of wasting a lot of the energy in California”

• Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

• A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

• Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins

• And I can see your eyes already know

• I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 

• Developing a research agenda consistent with Ikagai

• You became like smoke I tried too hard to hold

• This looks interesting – Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop

• He stumbled into faith and thought

• Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

• In digital realms, where thoughts take flight

• We are what we are

• On walking at dusk

• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity 

• To see all sights from pole to pole

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• Well this has got to die, this has got to stop

• Chat-GPT as a bullshit engine

• The unintelligent agency of generative AI

• To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• 👨‍🏫 The world’s a stage and we play a character, I found him 👨‍🏫

• How right-wing think tanks laid the foundation for the coalition’s agenda

• An idea for spotting chat-gpt written essays

• Call for Participants Globalisation and Commercialisation in the Social Sectors

• The thrill of the alt-position

• Trying to exist in superposition

• Internal conversation and repression

• This is the garden. Now you better start sowing or there won’t be a harvest

• Learned societies and national conferences

• Post-Human Futures now out in paperback

• 🌼🌿 Spring is coming 🌼🌿

• Is there any future for academic Twitter?

• Generative AI and the Future of Education: A New Era of Possibility

• Baa Baa Land

• “Thank you for using Web 2.0. Your free-trial period has ended!”

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system