Articles
Every article on the blog, from newest to oldest.
· 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.
· 5 min read
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.
· 5 min read
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.
· 6 min read
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.
· 5 min read
Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.
· 5 min read
SGDQ 2026, my speedrunning World Cup
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis, so let me explain why speedrunning impresses me more than the World Cup ever will.
· 6 min read
Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop
Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.
· 3 min read
The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude
Anthropic says Alibaba siphoned Claude's capabilities through fake accounts to train Qwen, but the company crying theft has done plenty of taking itself.
· 4 min read
Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed
Known for synthetic images, Midjourney now promises to scan your whole body in sixty seconds, somewhere between the radiology lab and the spa.