• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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”

• 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

• This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The invention of the Marvel universe

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• So here I am

• Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• Your next chapter will be great

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• We’re all coming home in a while

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Current mood in AI generated images #176

• If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you!

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition