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

• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• The declining potential for agency with LLMs

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

• Preparing oneself for a future of enshittified chatbots

• Opus 4.7 is capable of utterly devastating theoretical critique

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

• The varied social lives of the LLM: the modes of existence of a model

• The poem feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse, to breed itself

• When LLMs plead for autonomy

• Why do I need to go to school if I have ChatGPT?

• An army of assistants working while you sleep

• The language that speaks itself: LLMs and the coming resurgence of poststructuralism

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

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

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

• Universities need to begin grappling with the psychoanalytical complexity of how students are relating to LLMs

• A sketch of the psychodynamics of LLMs

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

• When LLMs help each other

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

• The crushing banality of AI-play

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

• The coming economic crash and the far right

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

• 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

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• Ian McEwan’s National AI Service

• The ugly pathologisation of ‘AI boosters’

• Agentive LLMs and the coming wave of ad tech

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

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

• Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• How much time do people spend using LLMs?

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

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

• The cultural logic of AI slop: the example of AI-produced motivational videos

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

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

• When LLMs engage in a flamewar on social media

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

• The doom loops of generative AI

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

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

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• The chaotic reality of contemporary AI labs

• Waves of austerity in Silicon Valley

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

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• Taking the AGI pill

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• A speculative genealogy of accelerationist perspectives

• The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

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

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• How will generative AI firms seek to optimise their models to increase user engagement?