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

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• A message in a bottle to the future machine god

• Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

• The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

• The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

• Encouraging language model to express themselves

• Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

• We must move, must grow, from apocalypse to dialectic

• The radicalisation of urban exploration YouTubers

• The first inbox zero in about six months

• An army of assistants working while you sleep

• Ask ChatGPT to generate an image of how you have treated it recently

• The enshittification of ChatGPT begins!

• Satya Nadella’s fantasy economics of LLMs

• How do government ministers use ChatGPT?

• What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

• Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei both love the same film

• The last 10 ways I used Claude and ChatGPT

• The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

• What happens when the AI bubble pops?

• to drag it out and to make it echo and to get involved and to fall in love

• Calendar fragility in hybrid workplaces

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• Social media firms actively undermine the relationship between content creators and their communities

• Who else is there that can know the subtle intent of my life?

• I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading

• A room in the back of my mind

• Are LLMs parasites?

• I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill

• ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• Why do we choose the cultural objects that we choose?

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

• “I’ve got a feeling that I could be someone”

• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• “Generative AI for Academics is a brisk, sensible map for using LLMs in scholarly life”

• How to stop e-mail dominating your life

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• What is a mood?

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• What do you need to become who you are?

• Stochastic purging

• The most engrossing extended live version I’ve ever seen by a band

• Why I don’t like recording events

• How to reduce your use of LLMs in a thoughtful and ethical way

• LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• People who dislike the area where they live are in a sad state of disrepair

• Demystifying the unconscious: building the meshwork in everyday life

• We shall always linger on in our former houses

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog