I enjoyed this recent Q&A with Brandon Sanderson from London. But also, do I actually want the Mistborn movie? As much as I loved the Lord of the Rings movies, part of me wishes I had never seen them. Each viewing erases a bit of how I imagined the world and characters.

Satya Nadella writes on his blog for the first time in a while, about how companies will evolve with AI:

I believe human agency will be the driver of token capital growth. Humans will set ambitious goals, connect dots across domains, build relationships, and recognize patterns that matter most. Without human direction, you have compute running in circles.

Added a new movies feature that people have been asking for. When blogging about a movie or TV show from Micro.blog, it can now include a little movie poster on your blog post. There’s a preference under Movies → Settings on the web. Similar to what we have for books.

Here’s a screenshot.

Yesterday David Sacks had a long post on X with the administration’s side of the story on the Fable ban:

The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

He says it’s not because of previous disagreements with the Department of Defense. Maybe, but surely the mistrust between everyone does influence these decisions.

Pretty happy with how Micro.blog 3.7 turned out. In addition to the Liquid Glass update, the new post text editor has been completely rewritten, now matching the Markdown highlighting on the web. Lots of fixes throughout the app.

We’ve been enjoying Star City and also catching up on For All Mankind season 5. 📺

I started collecting anonymous stats for our Mac app for the first time. We support old versions of macOS for a long time, but I wanted to know more about how much memory people have.

Results after less than a week: 43% with 16 GB or less, 57% with 24 GB or more. Pretty good! That surprised me.

I’m so emotionally invested in these Spurs games, probably too much, that after a win or loss I’m too wired to do anything except work, even though it’s almost midnight. So finishing some iOS work to submit to Apple. Also crunching some stats.

Crazy finals. Spurs have had so many leads, every game up 10, 15, more. And then it falls apart in the last couple minutes each time. Amazing season, though. 🏀

I was expecting more drama from the Mythos shutdown. The Wall Street Journal reports that it started with a call from Amazon, but just generally Anthropic and the government are not on the same page:

The administration had long felt that Anthropic, one of the leaders in America’s AI race, couldn’t be trusted to manage the security risks its new model presented. Friday’s call between some administration officials and Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei reinforced that feeling, the people said.

John Gruber blogging about the limitations in Private Cloud Compute:

The bottom line is that — for the OS 27 cycle at least — PCC is primarily a feature for Apple itself to use in Siri AI.

That’s my impression too. It’s a pretty narrow set of features where it could be useful for me anyway, and I can’t use it from the Mac outside the App Store.

Watched: Disclosure Day. Really good. 🍿

Dave Winer blogging about silos and the opportunity for AI:

We’ve created a predictably bad system now, predictable because we always create silos when we give big money a chance to call all the shots. We don’t get chances to rewrite the rules very often, but this is one of those times. Last one was in the early 1990s with the advent of the web. My plan is to give all the new power back to the web.

Great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about imperfection in the in-between state of animated transitions. The most polished apps usually sweat these little details. Hard to do, and my own apps often fall short here.

Anthropic is disabling Fable and Mythos at the request of the US government. I don’t think this is “our model is so good you can’t have it” marketing, because Anthropic seems annoyed. They blog that there is confusion about the capability even compared to other models:

We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government’s directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe.

Casey Liss blogs about how AI can feel like a coworker:

I was struck; I was feeling something that was familiar, but distant. I felt like I had just worked together with a coworker to solve a technical problem. It felt like I was part of a team again.

I reworked our robots.txt parsing to be much better. In the process, I looked at a bunch of website’s robots.txt files… Blah. No wonder the Internet Archive gave up and now ignores it.

The definition of a “crawler” is increasingly debatable. A search engine? Yes. Bookmarking and archiving? Dunno.

Learned about the new gallery embed lexicon for Bluesky and updated Micro.blog to support it, for up to 10 photos per post. It’s working well. Good to see AT Protocol continue to improve. 👍

It appears that complaining about Elon Musk is not making him poorer. X also remains very popular. Whatever energy we’re putting into the fediverse and atmosphere, it’s not enough, or it’s not channeled in the right direction. I think there’s a lot to reflect on as a community and adjust.

This livestream of workers taking Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center is hilarious. I didn’t realize the letters were so high up! Fame is fleeting. What is built can be unbuilt. 🇺🇸

John Cornyn talking about Trump:

He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disaster.

🇺🇸

Wild example of Fable being relentlessly proactive on Simon Willison’s blog. I remember the first time I saw AI writing a little throw-away program to analyze something. Taken too far, it almost has the feel of paperclip maximizing… Achieve the goal at all costs.

Still on the waitlist for Siri AI. With mostly just developers right now, Apple only has a tiny fraction of the users they will have later this year. Maybe they should’ve spent a little more capex on data centers after all.

With the latest Inkwell for iOS update, we’ve now finished adding back most of the features that we had to remove to get 1.0 approved by Apple. 🙄

I installed iOS 27 on my phone, but holding off on the Mac. I don’t want to interfere with my Xcode workflow and shipping apps. Still on the waitlist for Siri AI.

A wonderful post from Federico Viticci about WWDC this year.

Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley introduced an updated version of their bill today that attempts to control the anti-competitive behavior of large platforms. I asked Codex to download previous versions of the bill so I could understand the changes in the latest version. Here...

Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar. From Cartoon Brew:

Norman, 90, became the first Black artist hired on a long-term basis at Walt Disney Studios in 1956. During his initial run at the studio, he worked on features including Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, and The Jungle Book, where he was part of Walt Disney’s story team.

I’ve blogged about Floyd a couple of times over the years. I just noticed that his blog is now showing up as “expired” on Squarespace. This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.

More negative reaction from Salvatore Sanfilippo on X to Fable blocking certain questions:

I believe what Anthropic is doing, gating the ability to do certain harmless things like LLM research, and with incredibly sensitive filters that even medical questions are often blocked, is deeply wrong. They got open research, the Transformer, GPT2, …

Anthropic has walked back the part of this where they secretly rerouted LLM-related requests to avoid detection.

Micro.blog 4.0 is out today, our latest app for macOS. For day to day blogging, I think this is the best experience for Mac users. Here’s another screenshot of the new Categories pane.