• ☀️Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits

• The AI-productivity pay off is here and it’s slightly terrifying

• The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• How can I make sad music if I’m not sad anymore?

• Why we need a machine sociology #5: The jagged frontier of agentive AI and the risks of sociological prompt injection

• An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

• The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

• Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency

• 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

• 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

• I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

• Form as a poem’s way of being in the world

• Using LLMs for activism

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?