The (not so) private diary of Qiaeru.
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· 8 min read
Banning teens from social media without knowing how
The science backs the lawmakers, Australia undercuts them, and nobody can yet say who will check our children's ages or what they will keep afterward.
· 5 min read
Nolan's Odyssey hugs the coastline
I promised a report on Christopher Nolan's movie. Here it is, lukewarm, while every critic in the business rolled out the red carpet for Odysseus.
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Clair Obscur paints the finest RPG
A friend wanted RPG tips, and I circled back to the game that stuck with me most, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose eight-hour soundtrack I keep on loop.
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La Bataille de Gaulle, my Bastille Day with the General
Five hours and sixteen minutes in the dark with Charles de Gaulle, on a day France offered both a World Cup semifinal and a red heat alert.
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GPT-5.6 Sol, the sun that throws shade at Fable
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and its flagship Sol right as Anthropic prepares to pull Fable 5 from its subscription plans. The timing is nobody's accident.