The biggest and most persistent lie: that AI was going to take the jobs currently held by humans. This claim was made as soon as AI arrived on the public stage, then repeated endlessly by every AI‑company executive, their partners, and their acolytes. They told us this over and over in different ways and in different contexts, while remaining conveniently vague on the details. The Palme d’Or for this shameful performance goes to Anthropic’s CEO and his infamous list. The list of 31 jobs On...

We got into the car and set off toward Tauranga, on a summer morning that already seemed written under the sign of perfection. The light was clear, almost liquid, flowing over the asphalt like a discreet blessing. Leaving Auckland still carries a trace of haste, but the city gradually retreats in the side mirrors, like a memory that no longer insists. Ahead, the landscape begins to breathe wide. The hills roll gently, rounded like petrified waves, covered in dense, saturated green,...

Article from the France–New Zealand series. Le Quesnoy rises out of the northern fields like a fortress that has finally learned to breathe quietly. Seen from a distance, it resembles a stone ship stranded in the grass, caught in a green ocean that no longer moves. Its walls, drawn by the hand of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, are not merely defenses — they are a form of stone‑born stubbornness, a geometry of resistance, as if the town had been designed not to live, but to withstand time...