• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

• What is diagnosis?

• Chat-GPT: Write the communist manifest but in favour of capitalism

• Chat-GPT: write me an Eminem song about cats

• AI and Assessment: ChatGPT and the Future of Education

• How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?

• The career trajectory of Jon Stewart

• The rarely seen fourth verse of Gangster’s paradise

• Asking technosceptical questions

• Will generative AI kill discovery?

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• Birdsong

• Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

• Not with a bang but a whimper

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• 📍Generative AI and the Future of the University: Three Events at the University of Manchester

• A poem about generative AI and its impact on universities in the style of Dr Seuss

• 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