• Why do we want what we want?

• The libidinal character of speaking in public

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

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

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

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

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• Taking the AGI pill

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• Ads and the enshittification of AI

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

• Hannah Arendt on Benjamin’s thought fragments and pearl diving

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

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

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• How do you socialise a chatbot? The philosophical training of Anthropic’s Claude

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• All trauma is preverbal

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

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden