• Microsoft EVP complains about being inundated by AI slop

• What happens when tech firms ratchet up the prices on digital services universities depend on?

• Some thoughts about the Archerian concept of reflexivity and putting it to work in books like Generative AI for Academics

• How are incoming undergraduates using generative AI?

• How likely is it that enterprise AI will erode professional autonomy?

• Everyone trying to develop AGI says they are doing it because the other developers are evil

• Copilot saving time for individuals does not mean Copilot saves time for organisations

• A conversation about scholarly publishing, AI, enshittification and the future of the university

• Even frontier models give wrong answers to financial questions more than half the time

• “I’m going to Paris, not France”: language models as compulsive meaning makers

• The risks of integrating AI too rapidly into higher education

• The all-you-can-eat AI buffet has closed

• Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• How visible are you in the LLM?

• Why AI vendors are targeting public institutions

• The language models have persuaded me I should shut up for a bit

• Are LLM-written Substacks getting out of hand?

• What are the judgements which students are making as they use AI?

• How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

• The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

• The moral placidity of LLMs (and some thoughts on frontier models and scholarship)

• Why prompting should not be our focus when teaching students about AI

• Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

• Do we need a horizon scanning infrastructure for AI in higher education?

• Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

• Are ubiquitous LLMs changing the economics of modern slavery?

• One week after deleting my LLM accounts

• Oh hello, I am also an AI. Would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?

• When LLMs give each other therapy

• We are poised on the shore of a new continent

• Will economic constraints on token use in organisations drive the emergence of norms?

• Why is it a bad thing to be dependent on LLMs?

• AI in higher education is going to get worse before it gets better

• LLMs and crystallisation as a form of object relating

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• Can you wait for 139 seconds?

• Chatbots vs inline automation and their respective implications for students

• The OU Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Critical AI Literacy Skills

• Using small LLMs in teaching and learning

• Claude 5: Write me a funny limerick about Heideggerian ontology that has the grandeur of epic poetry

• Does the SpaceX IPO suggest AI labs won’t be fiscally disciplined by going public?

• An interesting test for new Claude models

• Claude 5’s assessment of the short and medium term future of UK higher education

• The declining potential for agency with LLMs

• What impact is the AI crisis having on public perception of a degree’s value?

• How is metacognitive laziness with AI mediated by groups?

• The ethical reasoning of students about AI is an untapped resource

• Helping students out of AI-spirals

• What are the conditions which make it possible to learn with AI?

• Generative AI and metacognitive laziness

• Generational hostility to AI

• The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

• What do we mean when we talk about a scaffold for learning?

• The second wave of the AI and assessment crisis

• What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution?

• There is no solution to the AI and assessment problem

• What does it mean for students to use AI in active rather than passive ways?

• What do staff need to be ready for AI integration? 

• Constructive alignment and AI-integration into teaching and learning

• The pedagogical risks of generative AI: the problem of cognitive outsourcing

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Talkie: a pre-1931 chatbot

• Gemini’s propensity for self-loathing

• AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

• Preparing oneself for a future of enshittified chatbots

• Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

• What is AI criticism for?

• The developmental harms of LLMs which are showing up in the literature

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

• Opus 4.7 is capable of utterly devastating theoretical critique

• 79% of 16-24 year olds in UK use AI tools: the pipeline from passive use to emotional dependence

• Naturalism in the study of LLMs

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

• LLMs, language and the deep structure of social and psychic reality

• Ex-uber CEO claims that he’s close to major scientific discoveries through ‘vibe physics’

• The rapid rise of social gatherings conceived and enacted by LLMs

• The most unnerving AI slop I’ve seen in ages

• The platitudes about generative AI in higher education are getting tedious

• Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

• The need for an ontology of AI therapy

• AI Slop: Trust, Inequality and Societal Breakdown

• The emotional instability of LLMs, or, u ok Gemini?

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• What ARE LLMs? Neglect of ontology as indifference to the object

• UCU’s 10 principles for AI

• AI in HE: What the hell is going on?

• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• Some thoughts on how and why AI will change over the next few years

• 💼 Using Generative AI in Ethical and Professional Ways as a Researcher – May 13th

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• Claude Code GitHub commits over time

• From Tool to Interlocutor: Rethinking How Scholars Engage with AI

• Is the Iran war about to burst the AI bubble and crash the global economy?