Articles
Every article on the blog, from newest to oldest.
· 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.
· 14 min read
Keeping a cool head when France melts
From a well-placed fan to chalk wash on the windows, how I keep a home livable through a French heat wave without wrecking my health.
· 5 min read
Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep
A non-sponsored field report on soundcore Sleep earbuds, which finally cured my trouble falling asleep after fifteen years of wax and foam earplugs.
· 4 min read
MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time
MapTap is a daily geography game where you tap five places on a globe, and every answer comes with a short history lesson that actually sticks.