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

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

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

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

• Goodbye 2024 👋

• 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

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #151

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• You’ll need somebody when you come to die

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

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

• 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

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #147

• New opportunity for independent critical realist researchers

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #146

• Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches 😬

• You see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• The unexpected words and power that a speaker can find in the right audience

• Current mood in AI generated images #145

• Current mood in AI generated images #144

• Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

• Elon Musk: First Buddy of the United States

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #143

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• I think I like it here, so I’m gonna let them forget us

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #142

• I talked to somebody again who knows how to help me get better

• Current mood in AI generated images #141

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #140

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #139

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #138

• The Great American Showdown of 2028: Elon Musk vs The Rock

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Was Donald Trump the first person to (successfully) adapt the poetics of wrestling to American politics?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #137

• Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #136

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• Current mood in AI generated images #134

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• There is only a single, urgent task: to reach out with joy

• On respect for what exists

• Current mood in AI generated images #133

• I just discovered depressive breakcore and I’m in love

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #132

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• One has only learnt to get the better of words for the things one no longer has to say

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #131

• Online Critical Realism Discussion Group

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #130

• Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #129

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #128

• Current mood in AI generated images #127

• The things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #126

• I live my life in widening circles

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• Yuval Noah Harari is like a ChatGPT condensation of broadsheet op-eds and magazine think pieces

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• Put out my eyes, and I can see you still

• Making the familiar strange

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• There was a Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 😮

• Current mood in AI generated images #125

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #124

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #123

• What you seek, it is near, now comes to meet you half-way

• The enigmatic desolation of Caspar David Friedrich

• We must be still and still moving, into another intensity

• 🍂 Current mood in AI generated images #122

• The fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

• Current mood in AI generated images #121