• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• Do large language models have a psychology?

• Talkie: a pre-1931 chatbot

• Psychoanalysis and infrastructure

• What is AI criticism for?

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

• The core challenge about generative AI which universities are still largely ignoring

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

• Against ‘cognitive outsourcing’

• Are LLMs hysterics?

• What do LLMs do when they are left alone?

• 🤖 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

• Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

• 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.

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• Dynamic context management is the achilles heel of Claude Cowork

• Why we need a machine sociology #1

• A message in a bottle to the future machine god

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

• 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!

• 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

• Ask an LLM: who wrote this unpublished text?

• 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

• Creative thinking as mushroom picking: a sketch of a psychoanalytical account of thinking-through-writing

• 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

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

• 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

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

• The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

• 📚 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

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

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

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

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• 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

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

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

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

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

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

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

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

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

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Automatic writing with image generators

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• 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

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

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

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionise Everything, by Matthew Ball

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots