• 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

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

• 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

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• A few heuristics for responsible use of LLMs

• 🐀 Rat Jump! A Game Made by Kids (with a little help from AI)

• Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

• Why we need a machine sociology #1

• 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?

• 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?

• GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

• Are LLMs parasites?

• ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

• A profile of an LLM-addict

• You can’t understand ‘AI slop’ without understanding engagement farming

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• Unconscious incompetence with technology

• Referential detachment. Or, what happens, when words stop meaning what we think they mean

• 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

• 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

• Using LLMs for activism

• Have LLMs destroyed essay mills?

• 🤖 Critical Realism and Digital Technologies: Platforms, AI and Human Agency – January 19th, 1pm GMT, Online

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

• How LLMs reason internally when they realise they are being tested

• A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

• Is big tech a driver of inflation?

• Could mass automation be imminent?

• The psychic structure of disciplinary imperialism

• A single point of failure for all the world’s digital infrastructure

• What do we mean by responsible AI? A panel discussion

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• The late 2020s as the final act of modernity

• What kind of AI bubble are we in?

• Teacher agency and generative artificial intelligence: teaching in higher education as a responsive, cultural activity

• When LLMs help each other

• What will it feel like in the future to lose access to LLMs?

• The two tier future of LLM-infused higher education

• The hostility of digital elites to expertise

• Has there been any improvement in AI detectors over the last 12 months? A GPT 5 Pro literature review

• The crushing banality of AI-play

• The first AI ‘law firm’ in the UK

• Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

• The enshittification of (political) economy: ‘AI’ as the last redoubt of neoliberal centrism

• What should you do if your academic publishers asks you to license a monograph for AI training?

• 👾 Three Years On: Generative AI at University of Manchester

• The tech bros trying to make a feminist case for AI porn

• Turning ChatGPT into the control room of a user’s digital life

• Why we need a better critical theory of LLMs

• Some sociological thoughts on responsible AI

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

• Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• Call For Papers & Registration: Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• The ugly pathologisation of ‘AI boosters’

• Agentive LLMs and the coming wave of ad tech

• The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

• Please bro, we’re so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• Certified AI-Free Skills and Knowledge: doing all work in person, offline and on paper

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’