RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116696838766743727
Anthropic Fable won't answer some prompts about cybersecurity or cryptography (falling back to Opus instead) but they will send engineers to the NSA to help them with offensive operations.
Received an obviously AI-generated flier through my door for a community street party in my neighbourhood. Ok, I can maybe get past the slop to meet my neighbours. But then they want £10 per person (strictly in advance), but without providing anything at all in return for that, as far I can discern. Is this some new kind of scam, or do I apparently have neighbours who don’t understand what community is?! Needless to say I won’t be going.
Who called it AI and not Misinformatics?
I bought a small coriander plant with no clear idea what I wanted to cook that needed it, and now I’m basically in hock to its insatiable water demands. Maybe I’m the problem?
Hmm... every single password I’ve autofilled with Apple Passwords today has been rejected as invalid. On about 5 different sites already. WTF?
Looking at this list of 100 great novels, and seeing Ulysses on there - so you don’t have to have finished the book to add it to your list? I’ve literally never met anyone who made it past 100 pages of that one.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time

The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
The GuardianApple’s Find My app is useful, but did they not ever think that having 8 devices all listed as “iPhone” is not super useful? Could they not list the model or when it was last used or something distinguishing?
I sometimes print-to-pdf long web articles to read on my Remarkable tablet. It’s amazing in 2026 how terrible that experience is - missing images, cookie popups I’ve already dismissed appearing halfway down page 2, lines of text somehow split between two pages. Why does the web still feel like a half-baked prototype almost 4 decades on?
There's serious panic being caused by AI discovered vulnerabilities behind the scenes, where those finding them are basically using them as marketing. Automated vulnerability hype train again, basically.
A thread on a few of them.
Move along grandpa, nobody’s questioning your age 😭