• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• Living on the Other’s time

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time

• 4 reasons why Copilot is a poor alternative to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

• Something will always be lacking

• Readwise.io lets you talk to your notes and it’s amazing

• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence…

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

• Webinar: Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way?

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• Well it’s a deep dark night and I hear you, I’ve been there

• The doom loops of generative AI

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

• Generative AI and the emergency remote scholarship of the Covid-19 pandemic

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

• Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• Are you overworking as an academic?

• The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• Taking the AGI pill

• What if universities no longer existed?

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”