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What Parents Deserve to Know, and What Centres and Schools Must Confront

Outdated policies. Invisible risks. Digital harm now hides in plain sight. It's time to rebuild the systems meant to protect children - in every school, centre, and boardroom.

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June 3, 2025
3 min read

Why do we even need to look for Roblox alternatives?

The answer is not just because of safety, or chat filters, or the latest horror story. The answer is structural. Psychological. Economic....

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May 28, 2025
3 min

Duolingo’s CEO Just Came for Teachers

In early May, Luis von Ahn, the founder and CEO of Duolingo, said something on the "No Priors"podcast I have been stewing on for the past week.

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May 23, 2025
1 min read

When AI Gets It Deadly Wrong

In the past 24 hours, something significant happened in the world of artificial intelligence and for once, the news wasn’t about shiny new features or faster processors.

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May 22, 2025
4 min read

Has This Discord Dataset Crossed a Line?

It’s hard to believe anyone would feel comfortable knowing nearly a decade of their Discord messages are now bundled into a public JSON file...

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April 29, 2025
2 min

The Deepfake Cleanup Illusion.Why “Take It Down” Isn’t Taking Us Anywhere

We are still failing kids.We are still playing catch-up. And we are still building policy around the wreckage after the bomb has gone off.

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April 21, 2025
5 min

AI Tools are Finally Helping Teachers Breathe. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Teachers are not looking for miracles. They’re looking for time.Not the philosophical kind. Not the romanticised version. They are looking for 27 minutes back from the endless documentation of student behaviour.

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April 19, 2025
6 min

AI, Aesthetics, and the Carbon Behind the Curtain

From my home office, a few blocks from where Michelangelo brought David out of flawed marble and into the world, I’m watching people hand their faces to machines.

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April 18, 2025
4 min

The Face Is Fake. The Risk Is Real.

Here we are, in 2025, where the most dangerous stranger your kid, your staff, or your leadership team will ever meet doesn’t even exist, and no one is teaching anyone how to spot them.

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April 17, 2025
4 min

They Just Stole Ghibli, Called It Cute. You Just Made It Go Viral.

In March, OpenAI released its GPT-4o update a new toy, marketed as image generation with “a vast variety of styles.” That phrase? It’s corporate PR for “we scraped the entire internet.”

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April 14, 2025
4 min

Barbie Box or Action Hero? No thanks.

There’s a trend sweeping LinkedIn right now that is part career flex, part creative experiment, part nostalgia hit. You’ve probably seen it. Smiling faces in plastic doll packaging. Action-figure you.

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