• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

• LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

• An interview with Research Professional about the fragmented landscape of digital engagement

• Ex-uber CEO claims that he’s close to major scientific discoveries through ‘vibe physics’

• The rapid rise of social gatherings conceived and enacted by LLMs

• The most unnerving AI slop I’ve seen in ages

• The platitudes about generative AI in higher education are getting tedious

• “Are you the police?”, “No, we’re Youtubers”

• Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

• The need for an ontology of AI therapy

• What the blog categories reveal: a view from the inside

• A pity. We were such a good and loving invention.

• AI Slop: Trust, Inequality and Societal Breakdown

• Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

• What Should Mark Do in April? A Debate Between Claude and GPT

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s March Blogging

• GPT 5.4’s roundup of Mark’s March blogging

• I did a half marathon in a storm yesterday

• The obscure moon lighting an obscure world

• The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

• UCU’s 10 principles for AI

• Is a sense of existential fullness always a fantasy?

• The objects which haunt us

• Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal Silence

• Hello Spring

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

• What am I? I am only dust in this light

• Things I’ve learned about life from a year of distance running

• I have waited here, under the stars for the longest time

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Together we can make hope normal again

• The internal tensions facing Reform before the next election

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• Sex as the things we cannot say

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• On realising you’re actually a hedgehog

• Claude Code GitHub commits over time

• From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?

• LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

• Unlike the saints, we have no use for angels

• If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• To work and to build, to connect, and create