A Letter to Myself
The Weekend Piece The letter that follows is brief. The form is old. Older than corporate self-improvement by about nineteen centuries. Marcus Aurelius wrote his to himself on a campaign tent on…
Microsoft’s Goats
On the Need for Another Mind Adrian de Wynter, a Microsoft researcher, has just released a paper whose title alone would be worth the price of admission: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes,…
The Withdrawal Button
Brussels Reinvents the Door There are certain dates, in the long calendar of European Union legislation, that should be celebrated with confetti, marching bands, and a small civic moment of silence for…
Three Days for Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
European Digital Sovereignty, and the Pattern of Consolation Prizes On June 9, 2026, Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, presented as the "with safeguards built-in" versions of its frontier…