• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Why I find Manchester in 2025 architecturally depressing, but in an interesting way, in one photo

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #155

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Purpose building as an intellectual strategy

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• I asked a librarian if he had a book about Pavlov’s dogs and Schrödinger’s cat

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

• There will be 13 billionaires in the Trump administration

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• “If H5 is ever going to be a pandemic, it’s going to be now”

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #154

• Using reasoning models to support theory-building

• How are people using Claude?

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• Lacan lecturing in English: Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject whatever

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #153

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2025

• Goodbye 2024 👋

• The first reviews of Generative AI for Academics have arrived

• A condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything

• 2024: a (work) year in review

• My 25 favourite films of 2024

• My 20 favourite books of 2024

• ⚡️ The God War: my first attempt at Marvel fan fiction

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #152

• Current mood in AI generated images #151

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• What is Elon Musk’s end game?

• Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• A list of interesting Generative AI tools I want to explore

• You’ll need somebody when you come to die

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The enshittification of enshittification

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #150

• There are a huge number of Generative AI for Academics courses for sale on Udemy

• So you were born and that was a good day, some day you’ll die and that is a shame

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• “It was the first time in my life where I felt an escape from my head”

• We sell our dreams and our potential to escape through that buzz

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #149

• 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

• Gert Biesta on the three purposes of education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #148

• On being realistic with students about platformisation