Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

A friend of mine does tech support for a large company and was remotely helping an employee who couldn’t get the AI to generate a birthday message because they’d run out of tokens. If corporate engagement already felt hollow, it feels even more so knowing they let AI do it all.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

It needs to be said that the modern renaissance of the C64 has lead to some truely great indie games. youtu.be/x2NGlF61syA?...

I'm glad to hear Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming (Vol 1 in 1968, 2 in 1969, 3 in 1973, Vol 4A in 2011, 4B in 2022, 4C planned but unreleased) has its counterparts in other fields.

Although I suppose in the humanities the publisher is less likely to be frustrated by the author being delayed by "let me invent a whole new typesetting language to write this book" as happened with ACOP. ...That's why volume 3 was delayed by a few years.

WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

The number of seats being won look worrying but its scatter gun. Look at the councils not the seats…

One of the issues is the gains are skewed because this is the first time reform have won. This is a better graphic…

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

“Many of those targeted by SLAPPs are not journalists but grassroots campaigners, academics, whistleblowers and, all too often, victims of sexual violence.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/campaigners-silenced-slapps-uk

TIL that all the panic over the Reform vote is down to our terrible electoral system. The actual number of reform votes has barely moved. They just split the vote better. Electoral reform, now.

Fruit Stripe Gum (circa 1961-2023): A line of fruit-flavored chewing gum, famous for the colorful, zebra-stripe pattern on each stick, and notorious for its expeditious loss of flavor

German authorities have shut down a relaunch version of the criminal marketplace 'Crimenetwork' that generated more than 3.6 million euros, and arrested its operator.

As a kid you assume that your home life is normal and the weirdos are other people. Parents always jarred meat and vegetables and cooked it in the top shelf of the dishwasher. I assumed everyone did it and only found out it was a money saving tip when I moved in with bf.

Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

I'd find it quite amusing if this kind of "pressure group" led to gendered categories in sports becoming a thing of the past. Amusing and well overdue. Boxing is what it is, but weight and strength categories do seem to be a better solution overall.

Party tricks with a new toy. Thank you @repcwa.bsky.social

social care in the locality, road maintenance, sort out the local parks, cemeteries, etc. They have nothing to do with national policy. But they won't learn. Anyone dumb enough to believe the nonsense Farage spouts is too dumb to grasp that simple truth, sadly.

If someone voted for Reform on Thursday because they want tighter immigration controls, lower taxes overall, and anything else they read on the Reform flyers, boy did they not understand a damn thing. Local councils have literally zero say about those matters. They organise bin collections, /1

Whoever owns the AlphaSmart brand could make a killing at this point if they played their cards right. Good luck asking an LLM when your device has enough brains enough to take your typing and be able to relay it to a printer and not one bit more.

meme stocks were a mistake

This headline proves you can do absolutely anything as long as you add “— for science” at the end

Live in a very rural area. Haven't bought toilet paper for a long time because switched to dock leaves. Superior.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Wife: Please! How did my husband die? Stormtrooper officer: He fired at a Jedi and they deflected the blast back at him with their lightsaber. Wife, weeping: That must have looked rad. Officer, solemnly: So rad.

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being increasingly abused to send convincing phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks ineffective.

Peter Mandelson recruited as new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.

Andrew Wood, the frontman of Mother Love Bone, a legendary Seattle band. He was Chris Cornell’s roommate. He missed the sudden ascent of grunge by a little over a year. He fatally OD’d in 1990; the following year, his bandmates got a very different singer and rechristened themselves Pearl Jam.

QTP with a cartoon with an awesome theme song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2_z...

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

📮 Received any election leaflets in the post recently? 📸 Before recycling, please consider snapping a photo and uploading it to electionleaflets.org. ℹ️ Over 1,000 leaflets have been added to the database this year alone!

A curiosity shop full of retro computer stuff.

There's a very concerning pattern in creatives who get harassed over "problematic themes" (refrainbow, vivziepop etc etc) and the pattern is "they created something LGBTQ+"

Told myself I'd try LLMs for coding just to stay up to date on tech. The architecture of the web project I built with it makes me want to cry. It's been some use for code review and reverse-engineering, but even with "cite sources" it still makes shit up. That's cost me a good chunk of my day.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Video calling @celgen.org using our AT&T Video Phone 2500s! These are both analog POTS phones!

Tin whiskers: fractals IRL?

found a pushbutton switch bank with absolutely GNARLY tin whiskers! these tin whiskers are so gnarly, even individual tin whiskers HAVE WHISKERS

Late breaking news while I was editing that video, someone separately found and uploaded a commercial for the QuoTrek www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBO...

The original “now with AI!”

A truly disgraceful episode: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*cries. Looks again. Cries some more.*

What does this big empty space need? Well, it needs lots and lots of vintage computers - and YOU! It's just 5 weeks to Retrofest 2026 (gulp) and tickets are selling fast. Buy yours now and do your bit to fill this big empty space! www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php

Oh. My. Word.

Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid.

Why did they call it brain drain when they could have called it cerebral vortex?