• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

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

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• Blogging, reading and idea debt

• Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

• The productivity gains of agentic AI are starting to show

• The new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

• The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• Stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being

• What does thinking sound like to you?

• The libidinal character of speaking in public

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: the internet will soon be filled with lost and confused LLMs

• OpenAI have just made a big move into research software

• The influence of Kojève on Lacan

• Why you should avoid publishing with MDPI

• The night is darkening round me

• Why we need a machine sociology #4: the relational configuration of agents determines their success

• Why we need a machine sociology #3: because the existing projects are absolutely fascinating

• The class composition of American proto-fascism

• We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

• Why we need a machine sociology #2: Moltbook is not the thing. Moltbook shows us what the thing is going to look like.

• An interview about generative AI in academic life

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• “They are shooting at a little girl alone In a car surrounded by corpses. Can you imagine that?”

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• A few heuristics for responsible use of LLMs

• Unrequited meaning

• Depressive breakcore as a rift in the sublime

• Let the tower fall!

• 🐀 Rat Jump! A Game Made by Kids (with a little help from AI)

• I lazily send songs like flocks of doves into the blue above⁠

• Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

• Why we need a machine sociology #1

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

• An AI-Assisted Overview of My Research: Claude Reviews My Publication Record

• 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