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

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

  • Why AI vendors are targeting public institutions

  • Are LLM-written Substacks getting out of hand?

  • How will universities ration internal access to LLMs?

  • Don’t be a meat proxy for an LLM

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

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

  • When LLMs give each other therapy

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

  • The museum of meaningless metrics

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

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

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

  • Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

  • What is AI criticism for?

  • Naturalism in the study of LLMs

  • 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

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

  • Which types of media does AI cite?

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

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

  • Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

  • What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

  • Claude Code GitHub commits over time

  • LLMs as a form of self-defence against bureaucratic platformisation

  • A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

  • 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 new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

  • Why we need a machine sociology #5: the internet will soon be filled with lost and confused LLMs

  • 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.

  • Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

  • The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

  • An army of assistants working while you sleep

  • How do government ministers use ChatGPT?

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

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

  • LLM enshittification mechanism #1: model memory sometimes confuses the shit out of GPT 5.2

  • Using LLMs for activism

  • Some notes on the political economy of AGI

  • A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

  • 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

  • What kind of AI bubble are we in?

  • The two tier future of LLM-infused higher education

  • The first AI ‘law firm’ in the UK

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