Spent most of today fighting an old IBM server that refuses to boot any media other than its SCSI RAID array, of which one disk is dead and the other has bad sectors and kernel panics when trying to find initrd..
Future linguists and archeologists are gonna go fucking crazy on this in 150 years
- Good Evening Mr. Randall this is the school. We have some inquiries regarding the enrollment form. We would like to ask if you really named your daughter ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86?
- Oh yes, absolutely. Little Anthy Numbers, we call her.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/

The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead
There’s a magic word. You say it, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot stops and will not continue: ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86…
Pivot to AITurns out they didn't even give the 10% recommended by the departmental director...
And I'm fully expecting that the 10% promotion raise won't include the 3.1% annual raise that was announced yesterday widening the gap even further...
Promoted today, but still being paid £3000 less than less experienced colleagues who started at the same time as me...
I now seem to have access to many project folders on which I am not directly involved, which make for interesting procrastination reading...
Work have given me an esp32-based device to play with and "improve", unfortunately distracting me from my real work.
Urgh, I'm too good at procrastination.