• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

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

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

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

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

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

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

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

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

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

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

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

• Taking the AGI pill

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

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

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

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• The embodied experience of writing

• Prompting as a literary practice

• How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• LLMs are now in the lifeworld

• Be aware your Bluesky posts are being scraped for AI training

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• Pioneering Sustainable EdTech Design: Insights from the MA DTCE

• The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

• CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI