• I’ve been taking some time to be distant, I’ve been taking some time to be still

• The Tale of Jenny & Screech

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• “You turned into who you are? I did too”: the love letters of Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher

• Everything’s connected, right? Everything’s connected

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Treat your personal knowledge base like a garden rather than a library

• And I met you between the wax and the needle in the words of my favourite song

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• Artificial intelligence and educational centralisation

• I was far too scared to hit him, but I would hit him in a heartbeat now

• Epitaph on a Tyrant

• Words are for those with promises to keep

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination

• I Ain’t Scared of Lightning

• Nick Cave on sobriety

• The Entangled Forest

• I’m transforming, I’m vibrating, look at me now

• Are universities too slow to cope with Generative AI?

• On losing what we never possessed

• It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• The “when-I-finally” mindset

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• How do we inventory the use of generative AI in different areas of activity?

• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

• What will generative AI mean for digital methods?

• Ain’t this just like the present to be showing up like this?

• Tristan Harris on the AI Dilemma

• On rushing and apophatic reflexivity

• It is time for academics to let go of Twitter

• Three White Horses and a Golden Chain

• Social media has changed – Will academics catch up?

• Saying goodbye to Twitter

• The problem with falling in love in late-night bars is that there’s always more nights, there’s always more bars

• Looked the devil in his face like, “Motherfucker, do your worst”

• Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

• What is diagnosis?

• Chat-GPT: Write the communist manifest but in favour of capitalism

• Chat-GPT: write me an Eminem song about cats

• AI and Assessment: ChatGPT and the Future of Education

• How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?

• The career trajectory of Jon Stewart

• The rarely seen fourth verse of Gangster’s paradise

• Asking technosceptical questions

• Will generative AI kill discovery?

• Academics can’t quit Twitter. Universities should be building alternatives. Instead, some are doubling down

• Birdsong

• Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

• Not with a bang but a whimper

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• 📍Generative AI and the Future of the University: Three Events at the University of Manchester

• A poem about generative AI and its impact on universities in the style of Dr Seuss

• The extent of social video use amongst British teenagers

• Obama the Blairite moderniser

• Bourdieu on powerlessness and prophecy

• The unity of dread and bliss

• “You can’t change the past but you can make the future. Anyone who tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil”

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• The death of participatory media

• In all its longings and hesitations, the shape of what you lived

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• Teaching with Chat-GPT

• Chomsky on Generative AI: “it’s basically just a way of wasting a lot of the energy in California”

• Building a personal knowledge management system with Craft

• A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

• Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins

• And I can see your eyes already know

• I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone 

• Developing a research agenda consistent with Ikagai

• You became like smoke I tried too hard to hold

• This looks interesting – Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop

• He stumbled into faith and thought

• Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

• In digital realms, where thoughts take flight

• We are what we are

• On walking at dusk

• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity 

• To see all sights from pole to pole

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm

• Well this has got to die, this has got to stop

• Chat-GPT as a bullshit engine

• The unintelligent agency of generative AI

• To fail as a human being is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself

• Our own half-articulate need to become a new person, one whom we as yet lack words to describe

• Focusing on the process rather than the outcomes

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• 👨‍🏫 The world’s a stage and we play a character, I found him 👨‍🏫