• The visibility of academics will be shaped through LLMs as much as social media in future

• LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

• Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

• a point is a beginning

• Murakami on the reflexive imperative as you age

• The cultural logic of AI slop: the example of AI-produced motivational videos

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

• Calm creation that in opening closes, often ceases by starting

• The gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offered

• Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

• So I find words I never thought to speak in streets I never thought I should revisit

• A review essay on Generative AI for Academics

• A relational sociology of large language models in education

• Thinking With Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• Living on the Other’s time

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• Astonishingly Meta are actually federating Threads

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

• And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time

• 4 reasons why Copilot is a poor alternative to Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

• Something will always be lacking

• Readwise.io lets you talk to your notes and it’s amazing

• Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are

• Somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence…

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

• Webinar: Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way?

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• Well it’s a deep dark night and I hear you, I’ve been there

• The doom loops of generative AI

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

• Generative AI and the emergency remote scholarship of the Covid-19 pandemic

• A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

• The far-right turn of Blue Labour and the political ontology of post-liberalism

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

• Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• How are students using Generative AI in UK universities?

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• Are you overworking as an academic?

• The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• Taking the AGI pill

• What if universities no longer existed?

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• 🖥️ Are you running a reading group on Generative AI for Academics?

• This is the anthem, the slogan, the summary of events

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• I just found out the head of Nintendo America is called Doug Bowser!

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The invention of the Marvel universe

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• Will Starmer’s Labour empower the far-right?

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• So here I am

• Gaslight Anthem covered Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Why didn’t Will MacAskill predict Sam Bankman-Fried’s malfeasance?

• Your next chapter will be great

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement? 

• We’re all coming home in a while

• Another review of Generative AI for Academics

• Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically

• Current mood in AI generated images #176

• If—your—eyes—drop—they will get atop o’ you!

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• Four Ways to Use LLMs as a writing partner

• The embodied experience of writing

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Machine Writing and the Pleasure of Composition

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• Prompting as a literary practice